PhD in Understanding mental health in elite women's cricket

近年来，优秀运动员的心理健康问题受到了媒体和体育科学研究的广泛关注。虽然这种关注早该引起重视，但关于女运动员心理健康的研究却很少。几位备受瞩目的女运动员，如西蒙娜·拜尔斯（Simone Biles）、大阪直美（Naomi Osaka）和艾玛·拉杜卡纳（Emma Raducana），都曾坦率地谈论过她们的心理健康，但大多数实证研究都没有提到女运动员。现有的研究主要集中在饮食失调上，并没有考虑到对女运动员经历的更深入的理解。考虑到已知女性在所有类型的精神疾病上都比男性面临更高的风险，这种狭隘的关注令人惊讶（Kuetterl & Larsem, 2019）。有一个非常现实的危险是，研究将忽视女性的心理健康经历，并再次强调运动科学领域固有的不平等。事实上，最近的研究（Perry, Champ, Macbeth, & Spandler, 2021）强调，需要方法多样性来推进我们对女运动员心理健康的概念和理论理解。采用一种全面的方法并检查研究通常回避的因素（即月经周期，社会文化因素和性取向）有可能显著推进这一研究领域。

Recently mental health of elite athletes has received considerable attention in the media and in sport science research. Whilst this attention is much overdue, there is scant research on mental health in female athletes. Several high-profile female athletes such as Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducana have spoken candidly about their mental wellbeing, yet female athletes are absent from most empirical research. Research that does exist focuses on eating disorders and does not consider a deeper understanding of female athletes' experiences. This narrow focus is surprising considering females are known to be at a heightened risk compared to males for all types of mental illness (Kuetterl & Larsem, 2019). There is a very real danger that research will neglect women's mental health experiences and yet again emphasise the inequalities that are inherent in the sport science field. Indeed, recent research (Perry, Champ, Macbeth, & Spandler, 2021) highlights that there is a need for methodological diversity to advance our conceptual and theoretical understanding of mental health in female athletes. Adopting a holistic approach and examining factors that research has typically shied away from (i.e., menstrual cycle, sociocultural factors, and sexual orientation) has the potential to significantly advance this research area.