PhD programme
The Birkbeck Sport Business Centre has a proud record of successful PhD students, many of whom remain actively involved with the Centre. Studying for a PhD in sport management at Birkbeck means being part of the broader Birkbeck MPhil/PhD Management programme.
The PhD can be done full-time or part-time and involves several taught modules in your first year, followed by a structured but flexible programme of independent study. If you are accepted, you get to work with members of the Centre as expert supervisors. Birkbeck also offers various forms of PhD funding and financial support.
If you would like to discuss PhD study further, please contact Richard Tacon.
Current PhD Students
- Courtnay Osborne-Walker: How can sport-based community schemes best meet the cultural needs of Black children?
- Tim Parkinson: The cultural production of athlete activism
- Phil Turbutt: Fan engagement strategies: A case study of the Red Wall movement in Wales
Former PhD Students
- Bethan Taylor-Swaine: Representations and identities of women in ultra running
- Richard Irving: Sustainability in Football: The community ownership model
- Jon Saunders: An investigation into the economic regulatory framework of English football in the post-modern era: The value of a regulatory space approach
- Richard Evans: Financial regulation and club owner behaviour in an open professional sports league: An empirical assessment
- Mark Panton: How do stakeholders influence stadium-led regeneration?
- Richard Tacon: Social capital development in voluntary sports clubs
- Giambattista Rossi: The economic value of professional football players: An empirical analysis on Serie A players
- Jee Seon Park: The distanced consumer's cognitive process in making relationship decisions
- Geoff Walters: Corporate governance in the football industry: A stakeholder analysis