Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and has published extensively on the subject of sport, including Embodied Sporting Practices (Palgrave, 2009), and Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: the "I" of the Tiger (Routledge, 2007). Her Introduction to the Social Sciences; the Big Issues, Routledge, is in its second edition. She has been chair of the immensely popular Social Sciences Level 1 course Introduction to the Social Sciences and its two 30 points versions, as well as working on the innovative, multi media level 1 This Sporting Planet. She is building a collection for the British Library on Sex Power and the Games for the 2012 Olympics and has contributed to the Summer Games web site. She is currently a member of the ESRC Centre for Research into Social and Cultural Change, CRESC and a co director of the AHRC funded, Contact Zones at the BBC World Service working on Sport Across Diasporas.