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

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Gilmore, Sarah, Wagstaff, Christopher, Smith, John·2018·Work, Employment and Society
DOI 10.1177/0950017017713933
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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.

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Authors
Gilmore, S., Wagstaff, C., & Smith, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Exeter (GB)
  • University of Portsmouth (GB)
  • Sports Psychologist
Corresponding author
Gilmore, Sarah
ORCID
Venue
Work, Employment and Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2017-08-21
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
426-435
ISSN
  • 0950-0170 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8722
DOI
10.1177/0950017017713933
OpenAlex
W2616821081
Cited by
50
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2
FWCI
8.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Work Employment and Society (publishedVersion)
  • Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Physical Education and Sports Studies
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
Keywords
sport psychology, English Premier League, professional football, precariat, precarious employment, job security, management change, emerging professions, professional identity

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