Emma Lindsey

Emma Lindsey is an award-winning journalist who worked as a staff writer on The Observer for five years. Prior to that she worked at The Mirror. A frequent contributor to The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, The Independent and Sunday Express, among others, she has written on numerous subjects from profiles and interviews, to arts, comment, society and travel. In 1995 she won the National Sports Journalism Awards Best Newcomer of the Year category. In 1998 she was short listed in the British Press Awards Sports Writer of the Year category and the CRE Race in the Media Awards Feature Writer of the Year category. She contributed pieces to Perfect Pitch (Headline vols I and IV) an anthology of football, as well as an essay in Reflections on Race, Class and Gender in British Sports Journalism (Routledge)

In addition to her work in print, she has participated in numerous debates in television and radio, and has been invited to speak about her work in women and sport, at the ICA and Brighton University, and at conferences at the South Bank Centre and Sport England. She was also invited to participate in a government advisory committee on racism in football. She read American Studies at the University of Nottingham.