Janine Coates Editor

Anthony J. Maher is Director of Research and Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Anthony’s research is sociological, philosophical and psychological in nature, using participatory, life history, (auto)ethnographical and narrative approaches. He is the author of numerous international peer-reviewed research papers, public, private and third-sector reports, invited book chapters, and books.

Justin A. Haegele is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor and the Director of the Center for Movement, Health, & Disability in the Department of Human Movement Studies & Special Education at Old Dominion University, US. He serves as the director of Project CAPER and the co-director of the MAMC, two initiatives funded by the US Department of Education to train doctoral scholars in adapted Physical Activity. He is also the immediate-past president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, and the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed publication Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly (2023-2025).

Janine Coates is a Reader in Equity and Inclusion in Physical Activity and Sport at Loughborough University, UK, working in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. Her research examines issues of social justice in relation to physical education, physical activity and sport, with focus on disabled young people and their families. Janine has a specific interest in research methodologies which centralise the experiences of young people. She has authored numerous international, peer-reviewed journal articles, professional reports and invited book chapters; and serves as Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journal Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, with responsibility for qualitative works.