Professor Martin Roderick's Outputs (21)

Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes (2024)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (online). Towards a sportive agoraphobia of professional athletes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 1-15. 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.

Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves (2022)
Journal Article
Hickey, C., & Roderick, M. (2023). Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58(6), 1050-1072. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902221142143

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 Sociology of Sports Work, Emotions and Mental Health: Scoping the Field and Future Directions (2017)
Journal Article
Roderick, M., Smith, A., & Potrac, P. (2017). The Sociology of Sports Work, Emotions and Mental Health: Scoping the Field and Future Directions. Sociology of Sport Journal, 34(2), 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0082

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.

‘To thine own self be true’: Sports work, mental illness and the problem of authenticity (2014)
Book Chapter
Roderick, M., & Gibbons, B. (2014). ‘To thine own self be true’: Sports work, mental illness and the problem of authenticity. In J. Baker, P. Safai, & J. Fraser-Thomas (Eds.), Health and elite sport : is high performance sport a healthy pursuit? (149-162). Routledge

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.

An Unpaid Labor of Love: Professional footballers, family life and the problem of job relocation (2012)
Journal Article
Roderick, M. (2012). An Unpaid Labor of Love: Professional footballers, family life and the problem of job relocation. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 36(3), 317-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723512445283

Domestic Moves: An exploration of intra-national labour mobility in the working lives of professional footballers (2012)
Journal Article
Roderick, M. (2013). Domestic Moves: An exploration of intra-national labour mobility in the working lives of professional footballers. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48(4), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690212442497

Disciplinary Power, the Oligopticon and Rhizomatic Surveillance in Elite Sports Academies (2012)
Journal Article
Manley, A., Palmer, C., & Roderick, M. (2012). Disciplinary Power, the Oligopticon and Rhizomatic Surveillance in Elite Sports Academies. Surveillance & Society, 10(3/4), 303-319

This article aims to apply a post-panoptic view of surveillance within the context of elite sport. Latour’s (2005) ‘oligopticon’ and Deleuze and Guttari’s (2003) ‘rhizomatic’ notion of surveillance networks are adopted to question the relevance and s... Read More about Disciplinary Power, the Oligopticon and Rhizomatic Surveillance in Elite Sports Academies.

"Lay Down Sally": Media Narratives of Failure in Australian Sport. (2010)
Journal Article
McKay, J., & Roderick, M. (2010). "Lay Down Sally": Media Narratives of Failure in Australian Sport. Journal of Australian Studies, 34(3), 295-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2010.498094

This article analyses media narratives of failure in sport using a case-study of the collapse of Australian rower Sally Robbins at the 2004 Olympic Games. Media coverage of Robbins' breakdown was driven by conflicting narratives. In the dominant vers... Read More about "Lay Down Sally": Media Narratives of Failure in Australian Sport..

Introducing Sport in Films. (2008)
Book Chapter
Poulton, E., & Roderick, M. (2008). Introducing Sport in Films. In E. Poulton, & M. Roderick (Eds.), Sport in Films (xviii-xxvii). Routledge

Sport in Films. (2008)
Book
Poulton, E., & Roderick, M. (Eds.). (2008). Sport in Films. Routledge

A Very Precarious 'Profession': uncertainty in the working lives of professional footballers (2006)
Journal Article
Roderick, M. (2006). A Very Precarious 'Profession': uncertainty in the working lives of professional footballers. Work, Employment and Society, 20(2), 245-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017006064113

Based on semi-structured interviews with 47 present and former professional footballers, this article explores the uncertainty that is a central feature of the professional footballer's workplace experiences, contributing to sociological understandin... Read More about A Very Precarious 'Profession': uncertainty in the working lives of professional footballers.

The Work of Professional Football: a labour of love? (2006)
Book
Roderick, M. (2006). The Work of Professional Football: a labour of love?. Routledge

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players... Read More about The Work of Professional Football: a labour of love?.

Adding Insult to Injury: workplace injury in English professional football (2006)
Journal Article
Roderick, M. (2006). Adding Insult to Injury: workplace injury in English professional football. Sociology of Health & Illness, 28(1), 76-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00483.x

Sociologists studying the topic of workplace injury have neglected professional athletes despite the fact that, for such employees, remaining 'active' at work is of paramount importance. This study involved semi-structured interviews with 47 current... Read More about Adding Insult to Injury: workplace injury in English professional football.