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Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Kossakowski, R., & Pope, S. (in press). Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom. Sociology of Sport Journal,

Scholars have recognized that sports fandom is not static, but temporal and fluid. However, little longitudinal research has traced the development of fandom over time. This analysis makes a new contribution to the sociology of fandom and women’s spo... Read More about Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom.

The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus (2024)
Journal Article
Naidu-Young, S., May, A., Pope, S., & Gérard, S. (2024). The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus. Sociology of Sport Journal, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0094

This article is the first to examine experiences of women with leadership roles in the U.K. Higher Education sport sector. We carried out detailed interviews with women leaders. We utilized Bourdieu’s model of habitus, capital, and field; Acker’s con... Read More about The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus.

‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’ (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2024). ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’. Sport in Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2304230

We draw from 102 interviews with American and English adults who attended the 2019 Women’s World Cup to examine how fans perceive women footballers as ‘role models’, with attention to the operations of gender ideology. Despite the recent professional... Read More about ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’.

Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (2023)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2023). Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sociology of Sport Journal, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2022-0195

This article offers an original contribution by examining both the quantity and quality of English print media coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup and how fans perceive and respond to this coverage. It is the first longitudinal analysis of me... Read More about Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research (2023)
Journal Article
Davis, L., Phipps, C., & Pope, S. (2023). The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2023.2229328

This positioning paper is a call to action for future research regarding the roles of women in the male-dominated sport of professional darts. Women have been present at darts events for over 80 years; however, the success of Englishwomen Fallon Sher... Read More about The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research.

Women Sports Fans (2022)
Book Chapter
Jones, K., Pope, S., & Toffoletti, K. (2022). Women Sports Fans. In D. Sarver Coombs, & A. C. Osborne (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sports Fans. Routledge

An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA (2022)
Journal Article
Clarkson, B. G., Parry, K. D., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2022). An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 12(4), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-01-2021-0004

Purpose: Women’s football faces an existential threat from covid-19. Using case studies, we explore the covid-19 responses of three highly-ranked national football associations (Australia, England, and the USA) and their professional women’s football... Read More about An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA.

Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport (2022)
Journal Article
Pope, S., Williams, J., & Cleland, J. (2022). Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport. Sociology, 56(4), 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211063359

This article offers an original contribution as the first to focus empirically on men football fans’ attitudes towards women’s sport in a ‘new age’ of UK media coverage, in which women’s sport has experienced a significantly increased and more positi... Read More about Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport.