Bieke Gils is a physical culture scholar with competence in the history and sociology of gender and the body with a PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research to date has focused on female leading figures in a variety of contexts, including North American entertainment industries around 1900, physical education in Canada in the 1960s-70s, as well as elite coaching in Norway. Bieke is currently in charge of a 3-year research project that seeks to investigate diversity and inclusion work in the elite sport and art field in Norway.
Kompetanse
History and sociology of gender and the moving body
PhD dissertation "Women who fly : aerialists in modernity (1880-1930)"