Roger Domeneghetti
Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader (Journalism Programmes) Research interests: Sports media, sport history, gender representation, national identity |
About
Roger Domeneghetti is a lecturer in journalism. His research focuses on the social history of sports media and the (re)presentation and negotiation of individual and collective identities therein. In 2017 he was awarded a British Sociological Association Early Career Forum Regional Event grant to fund a one-day symposium on the sports-media representation of sportswomen and femininity. Roger has written various articles on construction of gender in sports media. His first book, From the Back Page to the Front Room: Football's Journey Through the English Media, published in 2014, was shortlisted for the 2015 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History. A revised and updated second edition was published in 2017 and will provide the basis for a PhD by publication submission.
Roger Domeneghetti is a lecturer in journalism. His research focuses on the social history of sports media and the (re)presentation and negotiation of individual and collective identities therein. In 2017 he was awarded a British Sociological Association Early Career Forum Regional Event grant to fund a one-day symposium on the sports-media representation of sportswomen and femininity. Roger has written various articles on construction of gender in sports media. His first book, From the Back Page to the Front Room: Football's Journey Through the English Media, published in 2014, was shortlisted for the 2015 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History. A revised and updated second edition was published in 2017 and will provide the basis for a PhD by publication submission.
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Employment
Roger joined Northumbria University in 2015. He is currently a Lecturer in Journalism in the Department of Social Sciences. He previously taught journalism at Teeside University (2012-2013) and Sunderland University (2011-2012). Prior to this, Roger has worked for a variety of national and local print and online publications in both news, features and sport. He was part of the team that launched sporting life.com in 1997 before working in the sports departments of the Sunday Express and the Daily Star on Sunday. He was the chief sub-editor at The Shields Gazette and deputy production editor at The Sunday Sun. He continues to work as the north east football correspondent for the Morning Star newspaper. |
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Peer Review
Roger acts as a peer reviewer for the International Review for the Sociology of Sport |