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Perspectives and experiences of physical activity among autistic adults in middle adulthood (2025)
Journal Article
McLeod, J., Roderick, M., Hanley, M., Riby, D. M., & Jachyra, P. (online). Perspectives and experiences of physical activity among autistic adults in middle adulthood. Autism, https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613251360862

Physical activity (PA) participation among autistic adults is low; however, it is unclear why this is the case. To date, little research has included the perspectives of autistic adults during middle adulthood to understand how to support their PA an... Read More about Perspectives and experiences of physical activity among autistic adults in middle adulthood.

Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes (2024)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (2024). Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 16(6), 519-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2024.2378157

In careers that span anonymity to public individual, the work of professional athletes is highly visible: anyone can observe and comment on what they do. Based on the accounts of 26 full-time, UK-based professional athletes from seven sports, eight f... Read More about Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes.

When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football (2022)
Journal Article
Hickey, C., & Roderick, M. (2024). When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football. European Sport Management Quarterly, 24(2), 383-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2022.2124299

As with most professional institutions, English Premier League football clubs offer insightful, unique opportunities to more fully comprehend the cultural significance of banter and abuse within workplace environments. This article offers a new, crit... Read More about When jokes aren’t funny: banter and abuse in the everyday work environments of professional football.

‘I just want to be left alone’: novel sociological insights into dramaturgical demands on professional athletes (2020)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., & Allen Collinson, J. (2020). ‘I just want to be left alone’: novel sociological insights into dramaturgical demands on professional athletes. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37(2), 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0135

To date, no sociological studies of professional athletes have investigated the lived experiences of sportspeople in highly publicly-visible occupations that provide relatively few opportunities for back-stage relaxation from role demands. Drawing on... Read More about ‘I just want to be left alone’: novel sociological insights into dramaturgical demands on professional athletes.

The Presentation of Possible Selves in Everyday Life: The Management of Identity Among Transitioning Professional Athletes (2017)
Journal Article
Hickey, C., & Roderick, M. (2017). The Presentation of Possible Selves in Everyday Life: The Management of Identity Among Transitioning Professional Athletes. Sociology of Sport Journal, 34(3), 270-280. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0018

In contrast to research, which privileges the notion of an exclusive athletic identity, we argue that the identity management of professional athletes is influenced by the expectations of audiences and the motivational weight of ‘possible selves’ in... Read More about The Presentation of Possible Selves in Everyday Life: The Management of Identity Among Transitioning Professional Athletes.

‘The whole week comes down to the team sheet’: a footballer’s view of insecure work (2016)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., & Schumacker, J. (2017). ‘The whole week comes down to the team sheet’: a footballer’s view of insecure work. Work, Employment and Society, 31(1), 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016672792

This ‘On the front line’ article focuses on the work and employment situation for an insecure, individualized sports worker whose main job task is fundamentally and publically collaborative. The narrative offers a realistic and nuanced understanding... Read More about ‘The whole week comes down to the team sheet’: a footballer’s view of insecure work.

Disciplinary Mechanisms and the Discourse of Identity: The Creation of ‘Silence’ in an Elite Sports Academy (2016)
Journal Article
Manley, A., Roderick, M., & Parker, A. (2016). Disciplinary Mechanisms and the Discourse of Identity: The Creation of ‘Silence’ in an Elite Sports Academy. Culture and Organization, 22(3), 221-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1160092

Organization studies research exposes the need to examine power relations embedded within the design of organizations, the construction of normative behaviour, and the production of socially constructed meanings that lead to the removal of employee v... Read More about Disciplinary Mechanisms and the Discourse of Identity: The Creation of ‘Silence’ in an Elite Sports Academy.