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

Sarah Gilmore, Christopher Wagstaff and John Smith
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Sarah Gilmore: University of Exeter Business School, UK
Christopher Wagstaff: University of Portsmouth, UK
John Smith: Sports Psychologist

Work, Employment & Society, 2018, vol. 32, issue 2, 426-435

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.

Keywords: elite sport; football; insecurity; precarious employment; precarisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017017713933

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