Staff Profile
Dr Andrew Scattergood
Senior Lecturer, Course Leader
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I have held various teaching and leadership roles in higher education and mainstream schools and have a wide range of experience in post graduate supervision, external examining and course revalidation. I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA and have a strong research profile that includes publications in the disciplines of PE, leisure, research methods, and education.
I graduated from the University of Chester in Sport and Physical Education in 2000 before completing my secondary school PE PGCE at Leeds Metropolitan University the following year. After eight years as Head of PE at a mainstream secondary school in South Yorkshire, I took up the post of Senior Lecturer in PE and Sports Pedagogy at the University of Chester, before then acting as Programme Leader on the newly-formed BSc PE programme until 2018.
Following a period as a member of the senior leadership team at a large secondary academy and undertaking the role of Programme Leader in Professional Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University I took up the post as Course Leader for PE and Sports Coaching at York St John University in 2021.
As a Senior Lecturer, Course Leader and postgraduate research supervisor, I teach across a range of modules at both UG and PG level. These not only involve theoretical content across a range of pedagogical and research topics but practical deliver through a wide range of sports and activities.
- School – School of Science, Technology and Health
- Email – a.scattergood@yorksj.ac.uk
- Research - View my work in RaY
- Postgraduate Research Supervisor
Further information
Publications
Scattergood, A. (2025) Over and Out? A report in to the state and status of cricket in northern, working-class secondary schools.
Scattergood, A. (2025) Exploring classed patterns in the design and delivery of PE in a white, working-class school – A figurational approach in Hobson, M, Chaudry, I & Whigham, S. (2025) (Eds) Social Class, Physical Education and Community Sport
Scattergood, A. (2024) ‘Everything OK mate? A case for the traditional pub games on the key stage 4 PE curriculum. Physical Education Matters. pp. 12-13.
Scattergood, A. (2024) The impact of a school ability banding system on white, working-class males. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45 (3). Pp311-331
Scattergood, A. (2024) Lesson learnt from conducting and instrumental ethno-case study in a mainstream secondary school. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23.
Scattergood, A. (2023) My mum just wants me out of the house: the leisure lifestyles of white, working-class adolescents. Leisure Studies, 43 (5) pp707-721
Scattergood, A. (2023) Learning to Play: How working-class ‘lads’ negotiate PE in a working-class secondary school in England. Sport, Education and Society, 29 (7) pp. 775-789
Professional activities
Postgraduate Supervision
- EdD – Jayne Hemmins – Can arts-based, participatory approaches empower art and design undergraduate students in exploring their experiences of neoliberal education?
- EdD – Graham Drury - A qualitative enquiry into the retention of experienced teachers.
- PhD – Ruth Matthewson – The provision, problems and potential of outdoor and adventurous activities (OAA) in English secondary schools.
External Examiner roles
- York St John University – 2017-2021 – BA (Hons) - Physical Education and Youth Sport.
- Sheffield Hallam University – 2021-2025 – PGCE Secondary Physical Education
Conference attendance and CPD events
- Cricket Research Network Conference – Loughborough University (February 2025) – Presentation ‘The State and Status of Cricket in Northern Working-Class Schools’.
- Move, Solve, Connect – Primary PE – Leeds Beckett University (May 2025).
- Out4Cricket – LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Cricket Conference (May 2025).
- Physical Literacy in Schools Conference – Leeds Beckett University (May 2025).
