Beth Clarkson

Football Consultant & Visiting Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Governance in Women's Football, University of Portsmouth

Beth is a leadership and workforce development consultant to the Premier League and is an active researcher in the areas of strategy and governance of women's football; and in leadership diversity and inclusion. Beth combines her industry roles with academic positions at both the University of Portsmouth and the University of Liverpool. She both leads on and collaborates in international and national research projects within her areas of expertise to support knowledge generation and integration in industry practices.

Experience

2019–present

Senior lecturer, University of Portsmouth
2016–2019

Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
2015–2016

Associate lecturer, University of Winchester

Publications

2021

An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-9 and governance of elite women's football in Australia, England and USA, SportRxiv
2021

The gendered effects of covid-19 on women's elite sport, The professionalisation of women's sport
2020

Covid-19: Reflections on threat and uncertainty to elite women's football in England, Managing Sport and Leisure
2020

Gender differences in the perceived impact that athlete leaders have on team member emotional states, Journal of Sport Sciences
2019

Leadership and the contagion of affective phenomena: A systematic review and mini meta‐analysis, European Journal of Social Psychology
2019

Negotiating Gender in the English Football Workplace: Composite Vignettes of Women Head Coaches’ Experiences, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

Professional Memberships

North American Society for Sport Management
Association for Applied Sport Psychology
The Football Collective
Women in Sport Collective
Women in Football

Honours

2020 Celia Brackenridge International Research Award Winner