Despite a surge in the popularity of women’s sport, most women athletes receive substantially lower pay and have less job stability than their male counterparts. Few women occupy coaching and leadership roles, ethnic minority and Indigenous women still face barriers at grassroots and elite levels, and LGBTIQ+ constituencies continue to experience marginalisation within and beyond sport.

This Australian Research Council-funded project explores how different forms of knowledge have contributed to the rise of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a health concern. In addition to looking at scientific and public health discourses, it examines approaches to regulating TBI among sport participants, military personnel, and survivors of intimate partner violence in Australia, Canada and the United States. The study illuminates how science and regulation reflect shifting beliefs about brain health, the mind and body and (injured) human agency.