Staff profile

Brett Smith was a Professor at Loughborough University and then at the University of Birmingham before joining Durham in 2019 as a Professor of Disability and Physical Activity and a Director of Research (2019-2024). He is also a Visiting Professor at universities in England, China, Greece, and South Africa. Brett’s extensively funded interdisciplinary research integrates different disciplinary knowledge (e.g., psychology, sociology, public health, policy, and education) and uses different methods to address complex problems. It is also often co-produced. Brett led the first UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines for disabled adults (2018) and disabled children (2022). Working with disabled people and disability organisations, this work also set new standards for communicating national physical activity guidelines by co-producing them. Brett continues to advise the UK Government Department of Health and Social Care as well as national and local organisations, like ParalympicsGB, Youth Sport Trust, Sport England, and Durham Mental Wellbeing Alliance, on disability, physical activity, sport, and co-production. 

Brett is currently the principal investigator of the award-winning transdisciplinary project Moving Social Work. With Disability Rights UK, this 5-year £1m+ funded co-produced research is about embedding physical activity in social work education and practice so that these professionals can work with disabled people to be more physically active. As part of this, Moving Social Work advances physical activity research on co-production, intersectionality, interprofessional working, champions for wellbeing, social justice, and health inequalities.   

In addition to expertise on disability, physical activity, and co-production, Brett is a methodologist in qualitative research. He has a particular interest in narrative inquiry, rigor, and arts-based research. Brett is the co-founder and former President of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise. He is the founder and former Editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. Brett has also supported the advancement of qualitative research by not only serving as a journal Associate Editor for Psychology of Sport and Exercise (9 years) and Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology (4 years). He has served on 13 journal Editorial Boards, including currently on Qualitative Research in Psychology, Methods in Psychology, and Qualitative Inquiry. Brett is the co-editor of the Routledge book series Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity. He is regularly invited to deliver international keynotes and contribute to prestigious handbooks, including the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (6^th Ed - 2024) and The APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology (2^nd Ed – 2024). He has guest edited 3 journal special issues, most recently, with Dr Javier Monforte, on critical posthumanities and postqualitative inquiry. The impact of Brett’s work on qualitative research and disability can further be found in him being consistently a Top 100 Cited Researcher in the World in the Sport Sciences.

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PhD supervision Brett welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in the psycho-social aspects of disability, sport, physical activity, and/or social justice.

• Disability
• Physical Activity
• Co-production
• Qualitative Research

Authored book

• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2013). Qualitative research methods in sport exercise and health: From process to product. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203852187

Chapter in book

• Smith, B. (2018). An autoethnography of the politics of publishing within academia. In L. Turner, N. Short, A. Grant, & T. Adams (Eds.), International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice (324-344). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315394787
• Smith, B., & Bundon, A. (2018). Disability models: Explaining and understanding disability sport in different ways. In I. Brittain, & A. Beacom (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies (15-34). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47901-3_2
• Williams, T., & Smith, B. (2017). Disability and physical activity. In J. Piggin, L. Mansfield, & M. Weed (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice (284-297). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315672779-20
• Smith, B. (2017). Narrative inquiry and autoethnography. In M. Silk, D. Andrews, & H. Thorpe (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (505-514). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745664-51
• McGannon, K., Smith, B., & Schinke, R. (2016). Closing the loop. . Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054
• Theory and Application (123 - 133). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746012
• Bundon, A., & Smith, B. (2016). From inspired to inspiring: Community-based research, digital storytelling and a networked paralympic movement. In S. Gair, & A. Van Luyn (Eds.), Sharing Qualitative Research (10-24). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315660875
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2016). Interdisciplinary connoisseurship in sport psychology research. . Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054
• Schinke, R. J., McGannon, K. R., & Smith, B. (2016). Opening the discussion. In R. J. Schinke, K. R. McGannon, & B. Smith (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology (1-6). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054
• Smith, B., Perrier, M. P., & Martin, J. J. (2016). Disability sport: A partial overview and some thoughts about the future. In R. J. Schinke, K. R. McGannon, & B. Smith (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology (296-303). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054-32
• Smith, B., & McGannon, K. (2015). Psychology and sociology in sport studies. In R. Giulianotti (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport (194 - 204). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203404065
• Smith, B., McGannon, K., & Williams, T. (2015). Ethnographic creative nonfiction: Exploring the whats, whys and hows. In Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research (59-73). Taylor and Francis
• A Review (202-225). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315813059
• Smith, B. (2013). Artificial persons and the academy: A story. In N. P. Short, L. Turner, & A. Grant (Eds.), Contemporary British Autoethnography (187-202). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-410-9_12
• Smith, B., & Pérez-Samaniego, V. (2009). Coping, performance, and anxiety sport psychology research: Some thoughts on methods. . Nova Science Publishers
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2007). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: Identity dilemmas, embodied time, and the construction of coherence. . Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2006). Disabled bodies and narrative time: Men, sport, and spinal cord injury. In P. Vertinsky, J. Hargreaves, & I. McDonald (Eds.), Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (158-175). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203014653

Edited book

• Schinke, R. J., McGannon, K. R., & Smith, B. (Eds.). (2016). Routledge international handbook of sport psychology. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777054

Journal Article

• McGannon, K., Smith, B., Kendellen, K., & Gonsalves, C. (online). Qualitative research in six sport and exercise psychology journals between 2010 and 2017: An updated and expanded review of trends and interpretations. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197x.2019.1655779
• Monforte, J., Netherway, J., & Smith, B. (2023). The world café is an unmethod within co-produced research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 20(3), 398-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2239728
• Monforte, J., & Smith, B. (2023). Introducing postqualitative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984x.2021.1881805
• Smith, B., Williams, O., Bone, L., & Collective, T. M. S. W. C.-P. (2023). Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(2), 159-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2022.2052946
• Monforte, J., Smith, M., & Smith, B. (2022). Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2805-e2817. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13724
• Tod, D., Booth, A., & Smith, B. (2022). Critical appraisal. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 15(1), 52-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984x.2021.1952471
• Budden, T., Dimmock, J. A., Smith, B., Rosenberg, M., Beauchamp, M. R., & Jackson, B. (2022). Making sense of humour among men in a weight-loss program: A dialogical narrative approach. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14(7), 1098-1112. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2021.1979635
• Monforte, J., Davis, C., Saleem, S., & Smith, B. (2022). Moving on From the Delphi Study: The Development of a Physical Activity Training Programme Prototype Through Co-produced Qualitative Research. Qualitative Health Research, 32(13), https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323221126535
• Williamson, C., Baker, G., Tomasone, J. R., Bauman, A., Mutrie, N., Niven, A., Richards, J., Oyeyemi, A., Baxter, B., Rigby, B., Cullen, B., Paddy, B., Smith, B., Foster, C., Drummy, C., Vandelanotte, C., Oliver, E., Dewi, F. S. T., McEwen, F., Bain, F., …Kelly, P. (2021). The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC): International consensus statement and user guide. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01230-8
• Smith, B., Mallick, K., Monforte, J., & Foster, C. (2021). Disability, the communication of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and ableism: a call for inclusive messages. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(20), 1121-1122. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103780
• Martin Ginis, K. A., van der Ploeg, H. P., Foster, C., Lai, B., McBride, C. B., Ng, K., Pratt, M., Shirazipour, C. H., Smith, B., Vásquez, P. M., & Heath, G. W. (2021). Participation of people living with disabilities in physical activity: a global perspective. The Lancet, 398(10298), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2821%2901164-8
• Monforte, J., & Smith, B. (2021). Conventional and Postqualitative Research: An Invitation to Dialogue. Qualitative Inquiry, 27(6), 650-660. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420962469
• Prato, L., Torregrossa, M., Ramis, Y., Alcaraz, S., & Smith, B. (2021). Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55, Article 101959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101959
• Choi, I., Haslett, D., Monforte, J., & Smith, B. (2021). The Influence of Confucianism on Para-Sport Activism. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38(2), 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0041
• Netherway, J., Smith, B., & Monforte, J. (2021). Training Healthcare Professionals on How to Promote Physical Activity in the UK: A Scoping Review of Current Trends and Future Opportunities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(13), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136701
• Smith, B., & Wightman, L. (2021). Promoting physical activity to disabled people: messengers, messages, guidelines and communication formats. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(24), 3427-3431. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1679896
• Tamminen, K. A., Bundon, A., Smith, B., McDonough, M., Poucher, Z., & Atkinson, M. (2021). Considerations for making informed choices about engaging in open qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(5), 864-886. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2021.1901138
• Monforte, J., Smith, B., & Pérez-Samaniego, V. (2021). ‘It’s not a part of me, but it is what it is’: the struggle of becoming en-wheeled after spinal cord injury. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(17), 2447-2453. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1702725
• Smith, B., & Monforte, J. (2020). Stories, New Materialism and Pluralism: Understanding, Practising and Pushing the Boundaries of Narrative Analysis. Methods in Psychology, 2, Article 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2020.100016
• Budden, T., Dimmock, J. A., Smith, B., Beauchamp, M., Rosenberg, M., & Jackson, B. (2020). Overweight and obese men’s experiences in a sport-based weight loss intervention for men. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 50, Article 101750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101750
• Monforte, J., Pérez-Samaniego, V., & Smith, B. (2020). Traveling Material↔Semiotic Environments of Disability, Rehabilitation, and Physical Activity. Qualitative Health Research, 30(8), 1249-1261. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318820520
• Haslett, D., Choi, I., & Smith, B. (2020). Para athlete activism: A qualitative examination of disability activism through Paralympic sport in Ireland. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 47, Article 101639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.101639
• Choi, I., Smith, B., Jung, J.-O., Oh, I.-H., Park, S., & Foster, C. (2020). Development of a physical activity infographic for adults with disabilities – a case study from Public Health England. 장애인복지연구 Disability & Social Welfare, 11(1), 1-18
• McGannon, K. R., & Smith, B. (2020). Expanding socio-cultural identity research in sport psycho-logy: The potential of athlete autobiographies. Quaderns de Psicologia, 22(3), https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qpsicologia.1556
• Monforte, J., Úbeda-Colomer, J., Smith, B., & Foster, C. (2019). Infografía sobre actividad física para personas adultas con discapacidad. Revista española de discapacidad, 7(1), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.5569/2340-5104.07.01.14
• Caddick, N., Cooper, A., & Smith, B. (2019). Reflections on being a civilian researcher in an ex-military world: expanding horizons?. Critical Military Studies, 5(2), 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2017.1345545
• Smith, B. (2019). Some Modest Thoughts on Story Completion Methods in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16(1), 156-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1536396
• de Cruz, N., Spray, C., & Smith, B. (2019). Implicit beliefs of disability and elite sport: the para-athlete experience*. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2017.1384753
• Smith, B., Kirby, N., Skinner, B., Wightman, L., Lucas, R., & Foster, C. (2019). Infographic. Physical activity for disabled adults. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53(6), 335-336. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-100158
• Abbott, D., Carpenter, J., Gibson, B., Hastie, J., Jepson, M., & Smith, B. (2019). Disabled men with muscular dystrophy negotiate gender. Disability and Society, 34(5), 683-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1584093
• Williams, T., Hunt, E., Papathomas, A., & Smith, B. (2018). Exercise is medicine? Most of the time for most; but not always for all. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(4), 441-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2017.1405363
• Williams, T., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2018). Physical activity promotion for people with spinal cord injury: physiotherapists’ beliefs and actions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(1), 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2016.1242176
• Bundon, A., Ashfield, A., Smith, B., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2018). Struggling to stay and struggling to leave: The experiences of elite para-athletes at the end of their sport careers. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 37, 296-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.04.007
• Martin Ginis, K., Van Der Scheer, J., Latimer-Cheung, A., Barrow, A., Bourne, C., Carruthers, P., Bernardi, M., Ditor, D., Gaudet, S., De Groot, S., Hayes, K., Hicks, A., Leicht, C., Lexell, J., MacAluso, S., Manns, P., McBride, C., Noonan, V., Pomerleau, P., Rimmer, J., …Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2018). Evidence-based scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury: An update and a new guideline. Spinal Cord, 56(4), 308-321. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-017-0017-3
• Ginis, K., van der Scheer, J., Latimer-Cheung, A., Barrow, A., Bourne, C., Carruthers, P., Bernardi, M., Ditor, D., Gaudet, S., de Groot, S., Hayes, K., Hicks, A., Leicht, C., Lexell, J., Macaluso, S., Manns, P., McBride, C., Noonan, V., Pomerleau, P., Rimmer, J., …Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2018). Correction to: Evidence-based scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury: an update and a new guideline (Spinal Cord, (2018), 56, 4, (308-321), 10.1038/s41393-017-0017-3). Spinal Cord, 56(11), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-018-0194-8
• Townsend, R., Cushion, C., & Smith, B. (2018). A social relational analysis of an impairment-specific mode of disability coach education. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(3), 346-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2017.1407355
• Smith, B. (2018). Generalizability in qualitative research: misunderstandings, opportunities and recommendations for the sport and exercise sciences. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(1), 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2017.1393221
• Martin Ginis, K., Van Der Scheer, J., Latimer-Cheung, A., Barrow, A., Bourne, C., Carruthers, P., Bernardi, M., Ditor, D., Gaudet, S., De Groot, S., Hayes, K., Hicks, A., Leicht, C., Lexell, J., MacAluso, S., Manns, P., McBride, C., Noonan, V., Pomerleau, P., Rimmer, J., …Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2018). Response to correspondence from the ESSA Statement authors. Spinal Cord, 56(4), 409-411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-017-0051-1
• Jaarsma, E., & Smith, B. (2018). Promoting physical activity for disabled people who are ready to become physically active: A systematic review. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 37, 205-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.08.010
• Allan, V., Smith, B., Côté, J., Martin Ginis, K., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2018). Narratives of participation among individuals with physical disabilities: A life-course analysis of athletes' experiences and development in parasport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 37, 170-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.10.004
• Caddick, N., & Smith, B. (2018). Exercise is medicine for mental health in military veterans: A qualitative commentary. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(4), 429-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2017.1333033
• Smith, B., & McGannon, K. (2018). Developing rigor in qualitative research: problems and opportunities within sport and exercise psychology. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 11(1), 101-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984x.2017.1317357
• Martin Ginis, K., & Smith, B. (2018). Introduction to the Special Section of Psychology of Sport and Exercise ‘Innovations in Disability Sport and Exercise Psychology Research’. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 37, 155-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.05.015
• Caddick, N., & Smith, B. (2017). Combat surfers: A narrative study of veterans, surfing, and war trauma [Surfistas de combate: Um estudo narrativo de veteranos, surfing e trauma de guerra] [Surfistas de combate: Un estudio narrativo de veteranos, surfing y trauma de guerra]
• Richardson, E., Papathomas, A., Smith, B., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2017). The psychosocial impact of wheelchair tennis on participants from developing countries. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(2), 193-200. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1073372
• García, B., de Wolff, M., Welford, J., & Smith, B. (2017). Facilitating inclusivity and broadening understandings of access at football clubs: the role of disabled supporter associations. European Sport Management Quarterly, 17(2), 226-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2016.1246584
• Martin Ginis, K., Papathomas, A., Perrier, M.-J., Smith, B., & Group, S.-S. R. (2017). Psychosocial factors associated with physical activity in ambulatory and manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury: a mixed-methods study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(2), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1045991
• Richardson, E., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2017). Collective stories of exercise: Making sense of gym experiences with disabled peers. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 34(3), 276-294. https://doi.org/10.1123/apaq.2016-0126
• Richardson, E., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2017). Disability and the gym: experiences, barriers and facilitators of gym use for individuals with physical disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(19), 1950-1957. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2016.1213893
• Richardson, E., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2017). Crossing boundaries: The perceived impact of disabled fitness instructors in the gym. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 29, 84-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.12.006
• Shirazipour, C., Evans, M., Caddick, N., Smith, B., Aiken, A., Martin Ginis, K., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2017). Quality participation experiences in the physical activity domain: Perspectives of veterans with a physical disability. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 29, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.11.007
• Tremblay, M., Aubert, S., Barnes, J., Saunders, T., Carson, V., Latimer-Cheung, A., Chastin, S., Altenburg, T., Chinapaw, M., Aminian, S., Arundell, L., Hinkley, T., Hnatiuk, J., Atkin, A., Belanger, K., Chaput, J.-P., Gunnell, K., Larouche, R., Manyanga, T., Gibbs, B., …Wondergem, R. (2017). Sedentary Behavior Research Network (SBRN) - Terminology Consensus Project process and outcome. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0525-8
• Smith, B., Bundon, A., & Best, M. (2016). Disability sport and activist identities: A qualitative study of narratives of activism among elite athletes’ with impairment. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 26, 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.07.003
• Tamminen, K., Palmateer, T., Denton, M., Sabiston, C., Crocker, P., Eys, M., & Smith, B. (2016). Exploring emotions as social phenomena among Canadian varsity athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 27, 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.07.010
• García, B., Welford, J., & Smith, B. (2016). Using a smartphone app in qualitative research: the good, the bad and the ugly. Qualitative Research, 16(5), 508-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794115593335
• Papathomas, A., Williams, T., & Smith, B. (2015). Understanding physical activity participation in spinal cord injured populations: Three narrative types for consideration. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10(1), Article 27295. https://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v10.27295
• Smith, B., Tomasone, J., Latimer-Cheung, A., & Martin Ginis, K. (2015). Narrative as a knowledge translation tool for facilitating impact: Translating physical activity knowledge to disabled people and health professionals. Health Psychology, 34(4), 303-313. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000113
• Phoenix, C., Griffin, M., & Smith, B. (2015). Physical activity among older people with sight loss: A qualitative research study to inform policy and practice. Public Health, 129(2), 124-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2014.10.001
• Welford, J., García, B., & Smith, B. (2015). A ‘healthy’ future? Supporters’ perceptions of the current state of English football. Soccer and Society, 16, 322-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2014.961380
• Papathomas, A., Smith, B., & Lavallee, D. (2015). Family experiences of living with an eating disorder: A narrative analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(3), 313-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314566608
• Caddick, N., Phoenix, C., & Smith, B. (2015). Collective stories and well-being: Using a dialogical narrative approach to understand peer relationships among combat veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(3), 286-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314566612
• Graham-Paulson, T., Perret, C., Smith, B., Crosland, J., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2015). Nutritional supplement habits of athletes with an impairment and their sources of information. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 25(4), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.2014-0155
• Smith, B., & Caddick, N. (2015). The impact of living in a care home on the health and wellbeing of spinal cord injured people. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(4), 4185-4202. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120404185
• Perrier, M.-J., Smith, B., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2015). Stories that move? Peer athlete mentors' responses to mentee disability and sport narratives. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 18, 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.01.004
• Caddick, N., Smith, B., & Phoenix, C. (2015). Male combat veterans' narratives of PTSD, masculinity, and health. Sociology of Health & Illness, 37(1), 97-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12183
• McGannon, K., & Smith, B. (2015). Centralizing culture in cultural sport psychology research: The potential of narrative inquiry and discursive psychology. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 17, 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.07.010
• Caddick, N., Smith, B., & Phoenix, C. (2015). The effects of surfing and the natural environment on the well-being of combat veterans. Qualitative Health Research, 25(1), 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314549477
• Gibson, B., Mistry, B., Smith, B., Yoshida, K., Abbott, D., Lindsay, S., & Hamdani, Y. (2014). Becoming men: Gender, disability, and transitioning to adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459313476967
• Paulson, T., Bishop, N., Smith, B., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2014). Inflammation-mediating cytokine response to acute handcycling exercise with/without functional electrical stimulation-evoked lower-limb cycling. https://doi.org/10.1682/jrrd.2013.08.0184
• Caddick, N., & Smith, B. (2014). The impact of sport and physical activity on the well-being of combat veterans: A systematic review. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2013.09.011
• Perrier, M., Smith, B., Strachan, S., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2014). Narratives of athletic identity after acquiring a permanent physical disability. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 31(2), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.1123/apaq.2012-0076
• Williams, T., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2014). The barriers, benefits and facilitators of leisure time physical activity among people with spinal cord injury: a meta-synthesis of qualitative findings. Health Psychology Review, 8(4), 404-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2014.898406
• Day, M., Bond, K., & Smith, B. (2013). Holding it together: Coping with vicarious trauma in sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2012.06.001
• Smith, B. (2013). Disability, sport and men's narratives of health: A qualitative study. Health Psychology, 32(1), 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029187
• Soundy, A., Smith, B., Dawes, H., Pall, H., Gimbrere, K., & Ramsay, J. (2013). Patient's expression of hope and illness narratives in three neurological conditions: a meta-ethnography. Health Psychology Review, 7(2), 177-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2011.568856
• Schinke, R., McGannon, K., & Smith, B. (2013). Expanding the sport and physical activity research landscape through community scholarship: introduction. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5(3), 287-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2013.847477
• Soundy, A., Roskell, C., & Smith, B. (2013). Are you an artificial person? Lessons from Mid Staffordshire. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2013.04.004
• Perrier, M.-J., Smith, B., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2013). Narrative environments and the capacity of disability narratives to motivate leisure-time physical activity among individuals with spinal cord injury. Disability and Rehabilitation, 35(24), 2089-2096. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2013.821179
• Smith, B. (2013). Sporting spinal cord injuries, social relations, and rehabilitation narratives: An ethnographic creative non-fiction of becoming disabled through sport. Sociology of Sport Journal, 30(2), 132-152. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.30.2.132
• Gibson, B., Mistry, B., Smith, B., Yoshida, K., Abbott, D., Lindsay, S., & Hamdani, Y. (2013). The integrated use of audio diaries, photography, and interviews in research with disabled young men. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 12(1), 382-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940691301200118
• Schinke, R., Smith, B., & McGannon, K. (2013). Pathways for community research in sport and physical activity: criteria for consideration. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5(3), 460-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2013.846274
• Smith, B., Papathomas, A., Martin Ginis, K., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2013). Understanding physical activity in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Translating and communicating research through stories. Disability and Rehabilitation, 35(24), 2046-2055. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2013.805821
• McKee, H., Ntoumanis, N., & Smith, B. (2013). Weight maintenance: Self-regulatory factors underpinning success and failure. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2013.799162
• Mundle, R., & Smith, B. (2013). Hospital chaplains and embodied listening: Engaging with stories and the body in healthcare environments. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 21(2), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.2190/il.21.2.b
• Sparkes, A., Pérez-Samaniego, V., & Smith, B. (2012). Social comparison processes, narrative mapping and their shaping of the cancer experience: A case study of an elite athlete. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459311428229
• Slater, M., Spray, C., & Smith, B. (2012). "You're only as good as your weakest link": Implicit theories of golf ability. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13(3), 280-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.11.010
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2012). Narrative analysis in sport and physical culture. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1476-2854%282012%290000006007
• Smith, B., Sparkes, A., Phoenix, C., & Kirkby, J. (2012). Qualitative research in physical therapy: a critical discussion on mixed-method research. Physical Therapy Reviews, 17(6), 374-381. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743288x12y.0000000030
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2012). Embodied research methodologies and seeking the senses in sport and physical culture: A fleshing out of problems and possibilities. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1476-2854%282012%290000006011
• Soundy, A., Benson, J., Dawes, H., Smith, B., Collett, J., & Meaney, A. (2012). Understanding hope in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2011.05.003
• Smith, B., & Caddick, N. (2012). Qualitative methods in sport: A concise overview for guiding social scientific sport research. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2012.701373
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2011). Exploring multiple responses to a chaos narrative. Health, 15(1), 38-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309360782
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2011). Inhabiting different bodies over time: Narrative and pedagogical challenges. Sport, Education and Society, 16(3), 357-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565967
• Blodgett, A., Schinke, R., Smith, B., Peltier, D., & Pheasant, C. (2011). In indigenous words: Exploring vignettes as a narrative strategy for presenting the research voices of aboriginal community members. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(6), 522-533. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800411409885
• Pérez-Samaniego, V., Devís-Devís, J., Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2011). Narrative research in physical education and sport: What is it and what is it for [La investigación narrativa en la educación física y el deporte: Qué es y para qué sirve]
• Stewart, C., Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2011). Sporting autobiographies of illness and the role of metaphor. Sport in Society, 14(5), 581-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2011.574358
• Phoenix, C., & Smith, B. (2011). Telling a (good?) counterstory of aging: Natural bodybuilding meets the narrative of decline. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbr077
• Branney, P., & Smith, B. (2011). Proposed men's section - Entrenching dualism
• Phoenix, C., Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2010). Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration. Journal of Aging Studies, 24(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2008.06.003
• Soundy, A., Smith, B., Butler, M., Lowe, C., Helen, D., & Winward, C. (2010). A qualitative study in neurological physiotherapy and hope: Beyond physical improvement. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 26(2), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.3109/09593980802634466
• Smith, B. (2010). Narrative inquiry: Ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3(1), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/17509840903390937
• Soundy, A., Smith, B., Cressy, F., & Webb, L. (2010). The experience of spinal cord injury: Using Frank's narrative types to enhance physiotherapy undergraduates' understanding. Physiotherapy, 96(1), 52-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2009.06.001
• Smith, B., Collinson, J., Phoenix, C., Brown, D., & Sparkes, A. (2009). Dialogue, monologue, and boundary crossing within research encounters: A performative narrative analysis. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7(3), 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197x.2009.9671914
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2009). Judging the quality of qualitative inquiry: Criteriology and relativism in action. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10(5), 491-497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.02.006
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2009). Narrative analysis and sport and exercise psychology: Understanding lives in diverse ways. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10(2), 279-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.07.012
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2009). Narrative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology: What can it mean, and why might we do it?. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.01.004
• Taylor, I., Ntoumanis, N., & Smith, B. (2009). The social context as a determinant of teacher motivational strategies in physical education. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10(2), 235-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.09.002
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2008). Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies. Disability and Society, 23(1), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590701725542
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2008). Men, spinal cord injury, memories and the narrative performance of pain. Disability and Society, 23(7), 679-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590802469172
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2008). Changing bodies, changing narratives and the consequences of tellability: A case study of becoming disabled through sport. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01033.x
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2008). Contrasting perspectives on narrating selves and identities: An invitation to dialogue. Qualitative Research, 8(1), 5-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794107085221
• Smith, B. (2008). Imagining being disabled through playing sport: The body and alterity as limits to imagining others’ lives. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2(2), 142-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511320802222040
• Phoenix, C., Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2007). Experiences and Expectations of Biographical Time among Young Athletes: A life course perspective. Time & Society, 16(3), 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x07080269
• Chatzisarantis, N., Hagger, M., & Smith, B. (2007). Influences of perceived autonomy support on physical activity within the theory of planned behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37(5), 934-954. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.407
• Chatzisarantis, N., Frederick, C., Biddle, S., Hagger, M., & Smith, B. (2007). Influences of volitional and forced intentions on physical activity and effort within the theory of planned behaviour. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25(6), 699-709. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640410600818523
• Smith, B. (2007). The state of the art in narrative inquiry: Some reflections. Narrative Inquiry, 17(2), 391-398. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17.2.13smi
• Smith, B., & Weed, M. (2007). The potential of narrative research in sports tourism. Journal of Sport and Tourism, 12(3-4), 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775080701737005
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2006). Narrative inquiry in psychology: Exploring the tensions within. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(3), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qrp068oa
• Chatzisarantis, N., Hagger, M., Smith, B., & Sage, L. (2006). The influences of intrinsic motivation on execution of social behaviour within the theory of planned behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36(2), 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.299
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2005). When narratives matter: Men, sport, and spinal cord injury. Medical Humanities, 31(2), 81-88. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2005.000203
• Chatzisarantis, N., Hagger, M., Biddle, S., & Smith, B. (2005). The stability of the attitude-intention relationship in the context of physical activity. Journal of Sports Sciences, 23(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640410410001730070
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2005). Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and narratives of hope. Social Science & Medicine, 61(5), 1095-1105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.011
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2005). Analyzing talk in qualitative inquiry: Exploring possibilities, problems, and tensions. Quest, 57(2), 213-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2005.10491854
• Chatzisarantis, N., Hagger, M., Smith, B., & Phoenix, C. (2004). The influences of continuation intentions on execution of social behaviour within the theory of planned behaviour. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(4), 551-583. https://doi.org/10.1348/0144666042565399
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2004). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: An analysis of metaphors and narrative types. Disability and Society, 19(6), 613-626. https://doi.org/10.1080/0968759042000252533
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2003). Men, Sport, Spinal Cord Injury and Narrative Time. Qualitative Research, 3(3), 295-320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794103033002
• Chatzisarantis, N., Hagger, M., Biddle, S., Smith, B., & Wang, J. (2003). A Meta-Analysis of Perceived Locus of Causality in Exercise, Sport, and Physical Education Contexts. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 25(3), 284-306. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.25.3.284
• Rees, T., Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2003). The influence of social support on the lived experiences of spinal cord injured sportsmen. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.17.2.135
• Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. (2002). Men, sport, spinal cord injury and the construction of coherence: Narrative practice in action. Qualitative Research, 2(2), 143-171. https://doi.org/10.1177/146879410200200202
• Sparkes, A., & Smith, B. (2002). Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity. Men and Masculinities, 4(3), 258-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x02004003003
• Smith, B. (1999). The abyss: Exploring depression through a narrative of the self. Qualitative Inquiry, 5(2), 264-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/107780049900500206