Tackling Inequality for Women in Sport

In collaboration with Wendi Bacon (School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences), Jill Shaw has been awarded funding by the Open Societal Challenges fund at the Open University to tackle injury inequality for women in sport.
Recreational sport has poor injury reporting and therefore lacks impetus to intervene, which disproportionately impacts women who experience higher rates of injuries, particularly serious (requiring surgery) injuries such as ACL tears. Knee ligament injuries occur up to ten times more often in female athletes. The team envisages evidence-informed injury prevention for women in recreational sport and aims to develop an injury reporting app as a first step on the path to tackling the inequality for women in sport.