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Dr Laura Purdy

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: L.G.Purdy@ljmu.ac.uk

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Dr Laura Purdy joined the Sports Business degree programme team at Liverpool John Moores University in January 2024. She holds a PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand), a MSc (Leisure Studies) from the University of Illinois (USA), and a Bachelor of Recreation and Leisure Studies (Hons.) from Brock University (Canada). Her recent scholarly activity has focused on issues in the sport industry that relate to relationships between organisations and sports workers (i.e., athletes, coaches, general managers, and agents). For example, she has explored contract development, welfare and safeguarding, advocacy and voice, and the impact of technology on employment sustainability and precarity in sport. Her research showcases ‘best practice’, informing policy for national organisations and the education of sports workers globally, including Swiss Olympic, UK Coaching, Coaching Ireland, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the Basketball Federations of Kosovo, Estonia, and Bulgaria, the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI), and the Lithuanian Federation of Sport Climbing.

Laura holds several senior positions internationally. She is an Associate Editor and Scholarly Development Associate Editor for the Taylor and Francis journal, Sports Coaching Review. She is a member of the editorial board of Pedigogika (a Baltic-based journal in education), a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Educational Research (ETI) at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and a member of the International Sociology of Sport Association.

Degrees

University of Otago, New Zealand, PhD (School of Physical Education)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, MSc (Department of Leisure Studies)
Brock University, Canada, Bachelor of Recreation and Leisure Studies (Hons)

Certifications

National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Academic appointments

Senior Researcher, Institute of Educational Research (ETI), Vytautas Magnus University, 2021 - present
Senior Lecturer (Sports Coaching), Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Edge Hill University, 2013 - 2024

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