I am undertaking a PhD supervised by Dr Mark Mierzwinski and Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon, exploring the presence of bullying and banter in Physical Education and youth sport. The research project will utilise a qualitative research design and analysis will be guided from a sociological perspective. It will focus on the affiliation between physical education, hegemonic masculinity and heteronormative behaviour in United Kingdom secondary schools. In doing so, it will address ambiguities in existing literature with regards to young adolescents' (re)construction of gender through physical education.