Ms Madie Armstrong

Job: PhD Candidate

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Humanities

Research group(s): International Centre for Sports History and Culture

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: n/a

E: madie.armstrong@email.dmu.ac.uk

W: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/sportshistory

Social Media: twitter.com/ICSHC

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Madie Armstrong is a PhD research student affiliated with the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at DMU. She holds an MSc in Global Ethics from the University of Birmingham and a multifaceted career path including university research administration and development work in Senegal, West Africa. Her research examines the juxtaposition of the public/private persona in autobiography, biography and memoir in the life, writings and photography of Elizabeth Le Blond (1860-1934) mountaineer, photographer and 1^st President of the Ladies Alpine Club.

Research interests/expertise

Elizabeth Le Blond
Woman mountaineers
Autobiography and biography

Qualifications

MSc Global Ethics (University of Birmingham 2004)

Conference attendance

Conference Papers:

‘Elizabeth Le Blond (1860-1934), 1st President of the Ladies Alpine Club: the challenges of biography.’ British Society of Sports History Conference University of Glasgow Sept 2012

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