Biography

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma (Psychology)
• PhD: Linda gained her PhD in 1997 which explored the relationship between work stress, leisure involvement and health in a large group of managers.
• MA (Applied) Recreation and Leisure Management
• Bachelor of Education
• Trained Teacher’s Certificate
• Diploma in Teaching (Secondary)

Employment history

Linda joined Birkbeck in 2000 from Massey University, New Zealand. After working as a project consultant for a local authority she was involved in setting up what is now the leading Sport Management Programme in New Zealand in the College of Business at Massey University. In this area Linda also contributed to and co-edited the first text in Sport Management in Australasia in 1994 and 1999, and has recently provided, with Chris Collins and Dr Sarah Leberman, a revised edition for publication in 2012. She also published one of the first specialist sport management texts in the UK  Managing the business of sport which has just been updated for publication in 2011 as part of the Routledge sport series.  Linda is currently head of the Management Department in the School of Business, Economics and Informatics and Assistant Dean Learning and Teaching at Birkbeck, University of London.

Linda is currently on the Editorial Board for Stress and Health and a reviewer for the

• European Journal of Marketing
• Journal of Business Ethics
• International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
• The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
• International Journal of HRM
• Work and Stress

Affiliations

• The British Higher Education Academy
• Member Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
• Member of British Psychological Society (BPS)(Organizational Psychology Division)
• Member CIPD
• Research Associate, University of Waikato, New Zealand