Roger Domeneghetti
Lecturer

Research interests:
Sports media, sport history, gender representation, national identity

Twitter: @RogerDom1

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.    

Qualifications​

• PGCert, Research Methods, Newcastle University, 2013
• ​MA, Sociology of Sport, Leicester University, 1996
• BA (Hons), Politics, Leeds University, 1995

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Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Association of Journalism Educators (AJE)
• British Sociological Association (BSA) Sport Study Group
• Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
• The Football Collective
• ​Football Writers' Association

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.

Modules Taught

• Level 4: Writing for Publication, Customer Oriented Communication, Corporate Communication in Practice
• Level 5: Sport Media and Society, Constructing Reality, Newsdays
• Level 6: Practical Sports Journalism, Convergent News, Media Practical Project, Media Dissertation

Recent Publications​​

• “On me bed, son”: The (re)presentation of (emphasised) femininity in English ‘tabloid’ newspaper coverage of Euro 2016”, International Review of the Sociology of Sport, forthcoming
• “Football Hooliganism & the Media” (TBC), in Steen et al. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism. London: Routledge, forthcoming
• “The other side of the net”: (Re)presentations of
  (emphasised) femininity during Wimbledon 2016”, Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure & Events, 2017 
• “From the Back Page to the Front Room: Football’s Journey Through the English Media" (2nd ed). Huddersfield: Ockley Books, 2017

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Conferences & Talks

• Dumbs Gone to Iceland: Tabloid Representations of the England Football Team and English National Identity during Euro 2016, Football, Politics and Popular Culture Conference, Limerick, 2017
• (Re)presentations of femininity in the English Press during Euro 2016, Critical Event Studies and the Politics of Gender Symposium, Edinburgh, 2017
• “Bums gone to Iceland” Tabloid representations of the England football team and English national identity during Euro 2016, The Impact of the 2016 Referendum on UK Membership of the EU, Newcastle, 2016

Public Engagement

• Invited panel member, The Northern Conversation: Whose Football Is It?, Gateshead 2016
• Invited panel member, The Battle for the Soul of Football, Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hull, 2015
• Invited panel member, Leaping off the Page, Leeds Big Bookend, 2014 

Peer Review
Roger acts as a peer reviewer for the International Review for the Sociology of Sport