Dr. Geoff Walters

Geoff joined the Football Governance Research Centre at Birkbeck in 2003 as a Research Officer after completing a BSc in Management at Lancaster University and an MA in Labour Studies at the University of Manchester. He was involved in four annual State of the Game publications from the Football Governance Research Centre between 2003 and 2006 that evaluated standards of corporate governance in the football industry using the Combined Code as the benchmark. Geoff received a three-year PhD scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council in 2004 to undertake a stakeholder analysis of the football industry. Drawing on qualitative case study analysis, the research considered the ways in which football clubs manage different stakeholder relationships. He was awarded his PhD in 2007 before joining the Department of Management at Birkbeck as a lecturer. Recent consultancy work has included an independent research report in the High Court case between Adidas and the International Tennis Federation, while he is currently involved in an ongoing project with the Central Council of Physical Recreation looking at sport event bidding.  His main research interests are corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in sport. Click here for further details.

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