Zuleikha Chikh
@zuleikhachikh
Doctoral Researcher in sport sociology @lborouniversity | Racialised minority women participating in sport leadership development programmes | @ss4jPal
Abstract accepted for @SportandDiscri1 ✅ Look forward to presenting findings from my PhD research in June on the 'raced' and gendered experiences of racialised minority women participating in sport leadership development programmes in the UK. #SportDiscConf25


The weapon of starvation is always built into colonial domination: slave ships, plantations, Indigenous land theft, removal, making property, food deserts, all of these take people from their land, & control access to food, water, and nutrition to extract labour and resources.
📣 Registration extended to tomorrow (18th June) for #WiSEANConference2025! Join us here at the @Carnegie_Sport, 24–25 June, for keynotes, panels & practice focused on gender equity, diversity & inclusion in sport. 🌐 Register: leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confere… #WiSERTogether
Congratulations and good luck to Azwa Chaudhry, Mariam Mahmood, Layla Banaras, Zahmena Malik, Nadia Khan, Maria Khan and all the other women that have got the Pakistan WNT call up 👏🏾 Keep inspiring each other! Interview conducted and shared by @DevTrehan.
Pep Guardiola, while receiving an honorary degree from the University of Manchester: “It’s so painful what we see in Gaza, it hurts all my body. It’s not about ideology but the love of life. It’s about refusing to be silent or still when it matters the most” @PepTeam
⁉️What is the architecture of whiteness? (A thread 🧵) I define the architecture of whiteness as the metaphorical notion that whiteness is a structural feature of the UK university space, both phenotypically and in practice; built from, and maintained by, identifiable bricks.
My research agenda will always include Black women athletes. See latest pub with my colleagues below doi.org/10.1080/174304…
My full PhD thesis is now available via the Loughborough repository! It centres Black women’s voices working across UK & Ontario, using storytelling, poetry & visual art. Please read, cite and share widely! doi.org/10.26174/thesi…
Over 900,000 Pilgrims have arrived to perform Hajj May Allah accept the Hajj of all
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continues…
Modi is copying Netanyahu’s Gaza playbook, testing how much violence the world will tolerate. From Kashmir to Rafah, settler colonialism speaks the same language. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/from-g…
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📣NEW PUBLICATION📣 Title: ‘The De/Construction of Identity: The Complexities of Loss and Separation for Mixed-Race Britain’ It is OPEN ACCESS so you can read it here now! Please do let me know your thoughts and feedback! mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/2/… #mixed #race #woke
Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim brothers and sisters. May Allah accept our fasts and ibadah. May we see a liberated Palestine soon. InshAllah 🤲🏽

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/096202…
Algeria has a new established star and his name is Mohamed Amina Amoura The Jijel native just single-handedly put Mozambique to the sword with a hat-trick of goals and an assist The Wolfsburg forward also has 6 goals in his last 3 matches with the Algerian national team
🎉PhD Viva Success!🎉 I am happy to announce that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis, titled 'The architecture of whiteness: How institutional whiteness shapes academic careers in the UK'. Publications pending!
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0 up at the break. Met the BH Fanaticos (Hardcore Bosnians on Tour). Incredible futsal and support on display 🔥


