Dr Beth Fielding-Lloyd SFHEA
Principal Lecturer, Quality and Learning, Teaching and Assessment Lead
Summary
Beth joined the teaching team at SHU in 2004. Her main research interests are media representations and equity policies in sport. Her PhD focused on the inclusion and progression of women in football coach education. Beth also oversees the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity's quality assurance processes, with a particular focus on enhancing learning, teaching and assessment.
About
Beth is a Principal Lecturer in the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity at Sheffield Hallam University. She has taught and supervised students since 2002 in the social and cultural study of sport. As Quality and LTA lead Beth oversees the quality assurance of our courses and leads enhancement of our learning, teaching and assessment. Beth is an active researcher in the fields of sport inclusion and sport media. Her PhD (awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007) was a critical discourse analysis of gendered organisational practices and identities within grassroots football. Her current research interests are in the fields of equity policies and media representations of gender and nation in sport, and she continues to publish internationally. Beth has recently been working on critical analyses of the professionalisation of women's football in England and content analyses of media representations of gender at international football events.
Representations of gender and nation in sport; Women's Super League (football); Gender issues in sport; Equity policy in sport; Women working in sport organisations (coaching, playing, management)
Teaching
Academy of Sport and Physical Activity
College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences
The Media and Major Sport Events
UG Project supervision
PhD supervision
Sport
BA Sport Studies
Media Discourses and Sport Journalism, UG Project supervision, PhD supervision
Publications
Key Publications
Fielding-lloyd, B., Woodhouse, D., & Sequerra, R. (2018). ‘More than just a game’: family and spectacle inmarketing the England Women’s Super League. Soccer and Society. http://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2018.1541799
Lusted, J., & Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2017). The limited development of English women’s recreational cricket : a critique of the liberal “absorption” approach to gender equality. Managing Sport and Leisure, 22 (1), 54-69. http://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2017.1386123
Black, J., & Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2017). Re-establishing the ‘outsiders’: English press coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. http://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217706192
Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Mean, L. (2015). Women training to coach a male sport : managing gendered identities and masculinist discourses. Communication and Sport, 4 (4), 401-423. http://doi.org/10.1177/2167479515588720
Fielding‐Lloyd, B., & Meân, L. (2011). ‘I don't think I can catch it’: women, confidence and responsibility in football coach education. Soccer and Society, 12 (3), 345-364. http://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2011.568102
Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Meân, L.J. (2008). Standards and separatism: the discursive construction of gender in English soccer coach education. Sex Roles, 58 (1-2), 24-39. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-007-9334-x
Journal articles
Burch, L.M., Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Hayday, E.J. (2023). ‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport. European Sport Management Quarterly. http://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2023.2227643
Woodhouse, D., Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Sequerra, R. (2019). Big brother’s little sister: the ideological construction of women’s super league. Sport in Society. http://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1548612
Conference papers
Shafizadeh, M., Mucklow, C., Marsh, G., Churchill, S., Penitente, G., Jones, L., ... Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2023). Perceptions of barriers and facilitators to enhance applied work experience in sport science courses. In Annual Conference of Teaching and Learning, Sheffield Hallam University.
Book chapters
Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Woodhouse, D. (2023). Responsibility and progress: The English Football Association’s professionalisation of the women’s game(1st). In Culvin, A., & Bowes, A. (Eds.) Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era. Emerald Publishing Limited: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/women%EF%BF%BDs-football-in-a-global-professional-era/?k=9781800710535
Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Woodhouse, D. (2023). Responsibility and progress: The English Football Association's professionalisation of the women's game (First). In Culvin, A., & Bowes, A. (Eds.) Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era. (pp. 17-31). Emerald: http://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-052-820230002
Lavelle, K., Mozisek, K., & Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2022). Playing here doesn’t pay my bills: an international conversation of pay equity as a discursive practice. In Long Anderson, M. (Ed.) Social justice and the modern athlete: exploring the role of athlete activism in social change. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666904574
Meân, L.J., & Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2021). Football, gender and sexism: The ugly side of the world's most beautiful game. In Butterworth, M.L. (Ed.) Communication and Sport. (pp. 313-332). De Gruyter Mouton: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660883-017
Reports
Smith, D., Woodroofe, N., Little, L., Slay, O., Handforth, R., Beckingham, S., ... Ludwig, F. (2019). Research Informed Teaching a Post Graduate perspective. Sheffield Hallam University.
Theses / Dissertations
Blackshaw, S. (2016). The changing face of gambling: an investigation of serious leisure horserace gamblers. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Shibli, S., Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Woodhouse, D.
Sequerra, R. (2014). The FA women's super league : framing developments in elite women's football. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Woodhouse, D., & Fielding-Lloyd, B.
Internet Publications
Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Mean, L. (2023). Women’s World Cup: 5 issues holding back the female game. https://theconversation.com/womens-world-cup-five-issues-holding-back-the-female-game-209358
Fielding-Lloyd, B., Woodhouse, D., & Culvin, A. (2023). Women's Sport - Department for Culture, Media and SportCommittee Call for Evidence – February2023. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/117525/pdf/
Presentations
Woodhouse, D., Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Sequerra, R. (2018). Big Brother's Little Sister: The Ideological Construction of Women's Super League. Presented at: Shared Solidarities: Galvanising the Women's Movement, Sheffield, UK, 2018
Woodhouse, D., Fielding-Lloyd, B., & Sequerra, R. (2017). Feminising Football and Its Fandom: The Ideological Construction of Women's Super League. Presented at: International Conference for the Sociology of Gender, Tokyo, 2017
Other activities
Editorial Board member for Communication and Sport
Postgraduate supervision
Gambling, risk and consumerism
The FA Women's Super League: Framing developments in elite women's football
Media
Beth teaches sport sociology, focusing particularly on sports media, social inclusion and gender issues. Her research centres on women working in sport organisations, affirmative action policies in sport and the relationship between sport and the mass media. She researched representations of gender in media coverage of the London 2012 Olympics and is now doing an analysis of how both gender and the different home nations are represented in BBC Sport news.