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Recovery from addiction and the potential role of sport: Using a life-course theory to study change (2013)
Journal Article
Landale, S., & Roderick, M. (2014). Recovery from addiction and the potential role of sport: Using a life-course theory to study change. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49(3-4), 468-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690213507273

To date, sport has played little part as an adjunct or alternative to adult alcohol and drug treatment programmes. However, research into natural recovery (overcoming addiction without formal treatment) identifies that sustained, meaningful activitie... Read More about Recovery from addiction and the potential role of sport: Using a life-course theory to study change.

From identification to dis-identification: case studies of job loss in professional football (2013)
Journal Article
Roderick, M. (2014). From identification to dis-identification: case studies of job loss in professional football. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 6(2), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2013.796491

Taken from a broader study of the careers of professional footballers, this article uses two player stories of job loss to offer contrasting experiences of cynical dis-identification. I examine how in research on the careers of sports workers, athlet... Read More about From identification to dis-identification: case studies of job loss in professional football.