Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: ‘It Feels Precarious and is Precarious’

Gilmore, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3556-2532, Wagstaff, Christopher and Smith, John 2018. Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: ‘It Feels Precarious and is Precarious’. Work, Employment and Society 32 (2) , p. 426. 10.1177/0950017017713933

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Abstract

This article gives a rare account of the working life of a sports psychologist in the English Premier League, the elite division in English professional football. It shows how members of emerging professions such as sports psychology are a new precariat. John is more successful than many sports psychologists, but his job security is dependent on his continued ability to navigate managerial change: using his skills as a psychologist in the defence of his own employment but simultaneously keeping the (potentially sensitive) ‘psychology’ label of the work he does hidden until circumstances are propitious.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0950-0170
Related URLs:	http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27560
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 13:24
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119725

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