In June 2026 we began the British Academy SHAPE Involve and Engage project 'Strength and Combat at the Royal Albert Hall' with a trip down to the archive. The team spent two days exploring the amazing collection, working with archivist…
Earlier this year the team here at Loughborough University won a new grant from the British Academy: SHAPE Involve and Engage. The aim of this fund is to: "offer an exciting opportunity for humanities and social sciences researchers to push…
At the start of this year, I published this short piece with The Conversation on wrestler welfare. The provocation is that, while things are better, there remain challenges in wrestler health and wellbeing. The only way these things will continue…
The Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling team has been delighted to work with Alex-Davies Jones MP, Mark Fletcher MP, Danny Stone MBE and all the members of the All Party Parliamentary Group during the past few years. We have…
Our new article was published in Survive and Thrive today. This is a journal of narrative medicine and medical humanities. It is published as part of a special edition (edited by Professor David Beard of the University of Minnesota, Duluth)…
On 7 June 2023, Charlotte Nichols (MP for Warrington North) proposed a debate in the Houses of Parliament on wrestling licensing. We were proud to have our work mentioned in this debate, particularly our recent explorations of concussion which were…
In June 2023 we hosted a follow on event from the first parliamentary conference on professional wrestling last November. During the parliamentary event many in the wrestling community shared that they wanted to know more about concussion: how to identify…
After the first wrestling conference at Parliament in November 2022, the co-convenors shared their thoughts on proceedings (filming by Troy Grant and Sam West): https://twitter.com/i/status/1664590750296817664 https://twitter.com/i/status/1664593418381676545 https://twitter.com/i/status/1664594210924683264
In November 2022 I received funding from Loughborough University to co-host the first wrestling symposium at the Houses of Parliament in conjunction with Playfight Wrestling School and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Professional Wrestling. It was the first time that…
In this post, Sam West (doctoral candidate at Loughborough University and co-founder of Wrestling Resurgence) reflects on a couple of the key terms that reappeared in our interviews. I am a curator, an early career scholar, and a wrestling promotor.…