Carly Adams was invited to give the 2023 Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture at MMU Institute of Sport. Carly, a Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, specialises in social and oral history and leads the Nikkei Memory Capture Project. Professor Adams has also written numerous papers for journals such as Research in the Sociology of Sport and Sport History Review she authored Queens of the Ice and edited the publication Sport and Recreation in Canadian History (2020). In her lecture, Dr Adams drew on her work with the Nikkei Memory Capture Project to engage with academia, sports and research practices.