Category: Gender
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FBC Sessions: Interview with Maggie Murphy of Lewes FC with Alex Culvin and Dan Parnell
As part of our FBC Sessions we welcomed Maggie Murphy (General Manager at Lewes FC @MaggieMrphy) and also runs @EPFinitiative. Maggie is a very inspiring person and is a leader is a very unique football club, in that Lewes FC the first club in the world to pay its male and female players equally. Maggie…
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Football, players, contracts and COVID-19: The Perspective of an out of contract Professional Female Footballer during the Pandemic.
By Becky Easton Covid19 continues to cause unimaginable and irreparable suffering and damage to lives, families and communities across the globe. The world is a changed place, football and sport are insignificant entities right now, but they continue to be much discussed. Football, certainly in the UK, is a way of life for some, an…
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The FBC Sessions: Eleanor Drywoor, Francesca Champ and Beth Clarkson join Alex Culvin
Eleanor Drywoor, Francesca Champ and Beth Clarkson join Alex Culvin for a conversation on the current issues in football and society, including women’s football, equality, recruitment, football law and regulations, labour migration, player contracts, player welfare, football ownership, fan activism and much more! Also read the related commentary in Managing Sport & Leisure: Covid-19: Reflections…
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A hundred-year overnight success: the stories of women’s football in Australia
By Lee McGowan In a piece of not quite though still relatively shameless self-promotion, I write to highlight a new book, Never Say Die: the Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football and the living archive research project it has emerged from. They are not the first works on Australian women’s football – See A…
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Place of birth and talent development
By Dr Laura Finnegan Successful athletic development requires athletes to navigate a range of ‘secondary factors’ that can impede or facilitate development (Wattie, Schorer & Baker, 2018). One such factor appears to the population characteristics of where the athlete was born. Theories of development emphasise the importance of the synergistic relationship between environmental and individual…
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A WINTER OF DISCONTENT – time for equality of resources in the women’s game and the grassroots
By Dr Paul Breen @CharltonMen JOHN STEINBECK once said that “a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.” Though football history hasn’t always included herstory, women have been doing well in the game for decades. In…
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Football’s gender problem: from the pitch to the boardroom, women are still being blocked from the top jobs
Amée Gill, Durham University Although the world of English football has long been considered a man’s world, women now make up a sizeable proportion of football players and fans. But despite this, the football boardroom still remains a distinctly male domain. The Football Association (FA) released its first gender pay gap report in March 2018,…
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‘Sexy’ Women and the Men’s World Cup: (Mis)Representations of Female Football Fans
By Dr Stacey Pope Do you think the This Fan Girl project is important and why? What impact could it have on female football fans? Media coverage of female fans typically represents them in subordinate ways, for example, a cursory internet search for ‘female fans’ or ‘female sports fans’ brings up numerous sexualised images…
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Conference Keynote: Sol Wolfers, Challenging the status quo – the positioning of female researchers in the footballing world
The Football Collective is committed to the future of football research and scholarship and we are delighted to formally introduce the conference opening keynote panel ‘Challenging the status quo – the positioning of female researchers in the footballing world’ by Sol Wolfers. The session will be the opening keynote and part of the ‘Challenging the Narrative’ – Critical…
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Football, Politics and Popular Culture: Call for book chapter abstracts
Call for book chapter abstracts A number of us are beginning the process of putting together a proposal to publish two edited book collections on ‘Football, Politics and Popular Culture’ based on The Football Collectives annual conference in Limerick, 2017. Football and Politics Deals with football and Politics / the politics of football. Football and Popular…
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BSA Early Career Forum: New research agendas for the study of sports media (re)presentation(s) of sportswomen and femininity
BSA Early Career Forum: New research agendas for the study of sports media (re)presentation(s) of sportswomen and femininity Northumbria University City Campus 12th October 2018 Call for submissions Keynote speaker: to be announced Keynote panel: to be announced This one day symposium provides an inter/cross-disciplinary platform to explore different ways we come to know, understand,…
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What do you think are the most annoying phrases to describe women’s football?
By Helena Bryne Over the years there have been numerous articles, blog posts and lists on public forums on what the most annoying football (soccer) clichés are. However, all these lists focus on the men’s game and I couldn’t find any similar lists on women’s football online. On the 26th of January 2018, I posted…
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Critical reflections of women and football
We are delighted to formally introduce the first keynote panel ‘Critical reflections of women and football’ chaired by Alex Culvin. The session is part of the ‘Challenging the Narrative’ – Critical thinking in football conference at Hampden in Glasgow on the 29th and 30th November 2018. ‘Critical reflections of women and football’chaired by Alex Culvin. Alex…
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Call for female coaches to participate in research
Would you know female coaches would match the critieria for a study? You or they must: – Be over 18 – Hold a coaching qualification – Hold an accreditation in talent development if this accreditation exist in your sport (e.g. in football) – Have at least 6 years of experience – Have coached or managed…
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Handbook of Sport and Masculinity – Call for Chapters
Call for Chapters – from Football Collective members Handbook of Sport and Masculinity The past two decades have seen a significant transformation of Western masculinities. Much of the research on the relationship between sport and masculinity in the 20th century documented how heterosexual men and boys were regulated by an orthodox form of masculinity (e.g.…
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Are women ‘real’ sports fans? The importance of sport for female fans
The original article can be found here at the ESRC website By Stacey Pope Associate Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University. Her research focuses upon issues of gender inequality and sport and her research expertise is in the area of female sports fans. Her book The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological…
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PhD opportunity: Women in a ‘Man’s World’: A Study of Women Working in Leadership Positions in Men’s Professional Football in England
Durham University PhD Studentship in Partnership with the National Football Museum: Women in a ‘Man’s World’: A Study of Women Working in Leadership Positions in Men’s Professional Football in England. This is an excellent, fully funded PhD opportunity with Dr Stacey Pope. Read more here.
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The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological Study – new book publication
By Stacey Pope Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored in sociological work to date. Most studies focus exclusively on male football fans and are typically focused upon male hooligan cultures and/or issues of fan rivalry. This book therefore breaks new ground…
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Women into Coaching: Are You Sure?
In this post, Dr Colin Lewis introduces a new chapter: Women into Coaching: Are You Sure? in the recently published: Sport and Discrimination Book (2017) (Routledge) Dr Colin Lewis, Dr Simon Roberts and Dr Hazel Andrews Chapter Overview Presently, there is emerging research interest regarding coach education and its impact on the learning and professional…
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Alex Culvin – Elite Female Football in England: How ‘do’ they do it?
PhD student and applied researcher Alex Culvin provides insight into her future research on elite female football in England. The presentation was titled: Elite Female Football in England: How ‘do’ they do it? University of Central Lancashire The event was held at FC United’s Broadhurst Park on 30th November 2016.