A/Prof. Kim Toffoletti

• Representations of gender in media, sport, and popular culture
• Women sport fans, especially female supporters of Australian Rules football
• Women's use of social media for activites related to sport, physical activity and fitness
• The intersections of female athleticism, consumerism and brand culture

Professional associations

• Australian Women and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA)
• The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)

Committee memberships at Deakin

• 2015 Faculty Student Misconduct Committee
• 2010 Faculty of Arts Equity and Diversity Advisory Group
• 2006 Access, Equity and Equal Opportunity Subcommittee
• 2005 Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Committee.

Trimester 1

• ASC207 Consumerism, Gender and Sustainability

Trimester 2

• ASC102 Introduction to Sociology B
• AST205 Sport, Bodies, Action!

Kim's interdisciplinary expertise spans the fields of:

• gender studies
• sociology
• feminist theory
• visual and media culture.

Kim's work has broken new ground in understanding women's participation in sport and physical activity in two key ways: 1) by taking account of the interrelated aspects of postfeminism, neoliberalism, globalisation and technology in women's experiences of sport and leisure; 2) by interrogating the production of feminist knowledge about sport at the nexus of global North/South relations.

• Associate Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal

• Editorial board member for the journal Communication & Sport

• Book series co-editor (with J.Francombe-Webb & H.Thorpe) of New Sporting Femininities: Embodied Politics in Postfeminist Times (Palgrave MacMillan)

• Co-editor of two journal special issues: Sociology of Sport Journal, "Sport, Feminism and the Global South" (with C.Palmer & S.F.Samie); Journal of Australian Studies, "Women In Sport" (with C.Palmer).

• Executive member, Deakin WISE (Women In Sport & Exercise)

• Kim's reserach has been used to deliver societal benefits by addressing the problem of women's underrepresentation and marginalisation in sport environments. It has influenced strategic stakeholders in sport on a global level, including the US National Football League, and nationally through work with the AFL Sydney Swans' women's advisory committee.

Kim is frequently invited to offer expert commentary and opinion on topics concerning gender, athleticism and sport participation. Her insights are aimed at furthering community engagment and dialogue on issues arising from women's growing participation in sport and physical activity, through a diversity of media platforms.

She has featured on ABC national and local radio, 3CR community radio, The 7.30 Report, Fairfax and NewsCorp print articles and op-eds, online news sources like The Conversation, Crikey and Sheilas, sport podcasts including The Outer Sanctum, The Ticket, The Sportmedia Podcast and Pushing the Edge.

I am a member of

• the Deakin Women In Sport and Exercise (WISE) hub
• Deakin University's Gender & Sexualities Studies network
• The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) thematic groups - Sport, Media, Genders & Sexualities.

Current

• Collaborative investigations into female athlete social media use with Associate Professor Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ), and women's use of social media for sport and physcial activity with A/Prof H.Thorpe, Dr R.Olive (UQ) and Dr A.Pavlidis (Griffith).

• Ongoing conceptual, theoretical and methodolgical advancements in the study of women's sport participation as fans worldwide. This project builds on prior qualitative research conducted by Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett, which explored women fans of the Australian Football League.

HDR supervision

Kim supervises a number of PhD projects, all of which are centrally concerned with gender identity, relations and politics. She brings to these projects expertise in the study of media (in particular, digital and social media), a deep knowledge of feminist theory, and methodological skills in qualitative research and textual analysis.

Kim welcomes supervision inquires from doctoral students working in the knowledge areas of gender, feminism, popular culture, digital media, sport and leisure.