Football Governance Research Centre
Birkbeck
University of London
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX
www.sportbusinesscentre.com

Dr Simon Chadwick
s.chadwick@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 7079 0802
Specialist Research Areas:

  •  Marketing Communications
  •  Sponsorship
  •  Sport Marketing
  •  Strategic Development of Sport
  •  Internet Marketing
  •  Service Quality
  • Relationship & Direct Marketing
  • Strategic Collaboration & Relationships

Professor Christine Oughton
c.ougthton@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 6316768
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Governance an regulation of football
  • Management of football clubs, governing bodies and sport organisations
  • Economics of football and sport
  • Football, sport and social and economic regeneration
  • Football, sport and social inclusion
  • Measuring the economic and social return to sport
  • Regional engagement and sport sponsorship
  • Competitive balance

 

Brighton University
Chelsea School
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SP

Dr Dan Burdsey (in attendance)
d.c.burdsey@brighton.ac.uk
Tel: 01273 643745
Professor Alan Tomlinson
a.tomlinson@brighton.ac.uk
Tel: 01273 643747
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Social Exclusion, Equality & Discrimination
  • Football Fandom and the Sporting Spectacle
  • Football & Conflict Prevention
  • International Football Governance
  • Football’s Underground Economy

 

School of Sport and Education
Brunel University
Uxbridge Campus
Middlesex
UB8 3PH

Celia Brackenridge
celia.Brackenridge@brunel.ac.uk
Tel: 07815 881329
Specialist Research Areas

  • Gender Relations
  • Women & Sport
  • Gender & Coaching/Leadership
  • Homophobia & Homophobic Bullying
  • Child Abuse and Protection
  • Child’s Rights & Welfare
  • Research Design for Social Science Projects
  • Ethics & Sensitive Research

Misia Gervis
Misia.gervis@brunel.ac.uk
Tel: 01895 27400
Specialist Research Areas:

  • High Performance Physiology
  • Child Protection
  • Coach Behaviour
  • Coach Education
  • Coping strategies
  • Choking
  • World football
  • Muscle & Tendon Adaptations to Physical Training
  • Psychology of Goalkeeping
  • Cardio-Respiratory Interactions During Exercise#
  • Stress & Emotion in Sport
  • Primary Physical Education
  • Sports Professions & Sports Cultures
  • Performance Analysis

 

Centre for the Sociology of Sport
Leicester University
University Road
Leicester
LE1 7RH

http://www.le.ac.uk/so/css/

John Williams
jxw@le.ac.uk
Tel: 0116 2522745
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Football Fandom
  • Cultural History
  • Racism
  • Gender
  • Football, Media & Football

 

Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care
University of Gloucestershire
Oxstalls Campus
GL2 9HW

Dr Andy Pitchford
apitchford@glos.ac.uk
Tel: 01242 715184
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Child Protection & Junior Football.
  • Sporting Conduct
  • Referee Recruitment & Retention; Referee Training & Mentoring.

 

School of Law
University of Westminster
4 Little Titchfield Street
London
W1W 7UW

Dr Guy Osborn
osborng@wmin.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7911 5000
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Contracts & Transfer Fees
  • Regulation of Supporters
  • Youth Football & Child Protection

 

International Centre for Sport History and Culture
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester
LE1 9BH

ICSHC@dmu.ac.uk

www.dmu.ac.uk/sportshistory

Dr Dilwyn Porter
dilwyn.porter@dmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0116 250 6278
Specialist Research Areas:

  • The role of FIFA in World Football
  • Women’s Football in Britain
  • Amateurism
  • Amateur & Recreational Football in England
  • Britain and the Olympic Movement
  • History of Sports Medicine
  • Sport & the Military
  • English Football & National Identity in the Post-War World
  • The History of Sports-Related Businesses

Dr Jean Williams
jwilliam@dmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0116 250 6304
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Women’s Football: Professionalism & Amateurism
  • Amateur & Recreational Football (including specialist networks such as the World Cup for players with Learning Difficulties
  • English Football & European Sports Law
  • The History of Sports-Related Businesses
  • Women in Football as Administrators, Coaches, Ancillary Occupations
  • Football & Literature, Film & Drama
  • Comparative International Approaches (e.g. The US/ PR China/ Namibia/ Australia/ Norway)
  • Education, Coaching, Child Protection & Qualifications Systems

 

Durham University
School of Applied Social Sciences
House of Sport
South Road
Durham
DH1 3TG

Dr Martin Roderick
m.j.roderick@durham.ac.uk
Tel: 0191 334 7220

Specialist Research Areas:

  • Drugs in Professional Football
  • Appointment & Qualification of Club Doctors and Physiotherapists in English Professional Football: Problems & Issues
  • Uncertainty & Soccer Injuries
  • A Very Precarious ‘Profession’: Uncertainty in the working lives of Professional Footballers

 

University of Central Lancashire
International Football Institute
Greenbank Building Preston
PR1 2HE

Kevin Moore
Kmoore1@uclan.ac.uk
Tel: 01772 894622

Specialist Research Areas:

  • Female fans
  • Disability football
  • Race and gender in football
  • Homophobia in football
  • Football and healthy lifestyles
  • The role of player’s agents
  • All aspects of football history
  • Player migration
  • Aspects of sports science and coaching

 

Leeds Metropolitan University
Carnegie Research Institute

Dr Kevin Hylton
k.hylton@leedsmet.ac.uk
Tel: 01132 832600 ext:4711

Specialist Research Areas:

  • The Carnegie Research Institute is working on a bid for a comparative study of football, rugby and cricket in Leeds and Leicester with Professor John Williams at Leicester University to investigate black and minority ethnic fans’ identities and their identification with professional sports clubs.
  • Data is being gathered and analysed in an update study on a suite of research into the nature and extent of racism conducted by the Carnegie Research Institute into football (2000), cricket (1997) and rugby league (1995). The update is designed to assess levels of change in governing bodies approach to anti-racism since the initial studies.

 

University of Liverpool
Football Industry Group
Management School
University of Liverpool
L69 7ZH

Dr Geoff Pearson
pearsong@liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 7953818

Specialist Research Areas:

  • The business of football
  • Sports marketing
  • Sponsorship
  • Football and the Law
  • Intellectual property and football
  • Economic impact of football
  • Stadia redevelopment and utilisation
  • Football and finance
  • Football and media
  • Growth and globalisation of football
  • Transfer and quota systems
  • Securitisation
  • Football hooliganism
  • Legal and policing responses to football crowd disorder
  • Civil liberties of fans
  • Sport and international relations

 

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
Henry Cotton Campus
15-21 Webster Street
Liverpool
L3 2ET

Dr Barry Drust
B.Drust@ljmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 231 4027

Specialist Research Areas:

  • Work-rate Analysis of Players
  • Talent Identification
  • Player Development
  • Injury & Injury Mechanisms
  • The Biomechanics of Football Skills
  • Player Migration Patterns
  • The Evaluation of Training Programmes
  • The Demands of Female Football
  • Practice & Instruction in Football
  • Anticipation & Decision Making Skill
  • Expertise & its Development
  • Expert Coaches
  • Immune Responses to Football
  • Recovery from Games
  • Match Analyses
  • Youth Football
  • Referees

 

University of Warwick
Department of Sociology
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Dr Andrew Parker
andrew.parker@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: 024 765 523065
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Gender (Masculinity) & Football
  • Tracking of (Youth) Players & Career Drop-Out
  • Commercialisation, Sponsorship & Intellectual Property Rights
  • The Social/Psychological Pressures on Elite Referees

 

Loughborough University
Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU

Dr Paul Downward
p.downward@lboro.ac.uk
Tel: 01509 226303
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Girls experiences of football in the school context
  • Local governance, collaboration and partnership in sport: A study in the context of the new opportunities for PE and sport initiative
  • An analysis of government policy for physical education and school sport
  • The economics of participation in sport

Dr Tess Kay
t.a.kay@lboro.ac.uk
Tel: 01509 226303
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Raising physical activity levels and sports participation among young people
  • Increasing participation and representation by ethnic minority groups
  • Increasing participation and representation by girls and women
  • Supporting the development of young people’s sports talent
  • The role of the family in influencing young people’s sports participation

 

Sheffield Hallam University
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
Collegiate Campus
Collegiate Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2BP

Robert Wilson
r.j.wilson@shu.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 2253981
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Football Finance
  • Ethnic minority fans
  • Female fans
  • Disability football
  • Schools football and disability
  • Race and gender in football (barriers v. incentives to participation)
  • Disability and race in football
  • Effectiveness of sponsorship of football
  • Football and Healthy Lifestyles
  • Exercise Science

 

Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Dr Susan Bridgewater
Sue.Bridgewater@wbs.ac.uk
Tel: 07960 679513
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Football manager leadership study
  • Fan affiliation with football brands
  • A multiple stakeholder risk assessment of the football industry

 

Southampton Solent University
East Park Terrace
Southampton
SO14 0RH

Dr. Richard Elliott
richard.elliott@solent.ac.uk
Tel: 023 8031 9337
Specialist Research Areas:

  • Globalisation of football
  • Global migrations in football
  • Effects of foreign players in football
  • Dimensions of migration in elite youth development in football