Rate My Professor Jamie Cleland

Dr Jamie Cleland is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Management, College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. He earned his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2008. His academic career encompasses roles such as Senior Lecturer in Sport and Management at the University of South Australia from 2017, Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Loughborough University from 2013 to 2017, Senior Lecturer in Sport Sociology at Staffordshire University from 2005 to 2012, and Lecturer in Sport Sociology at Liverpool Hope University from 2002 to 2005. Cleland is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students at Adelaide University, where he currently co-supervises doctoral theses on gender bias and consumer attitudes in the Women's Australian Football League, as well as the integration of corporate social responsibility into business strategies at professional sporting clubs. He teaches courses such as Sport, Health and Wellbeing, Managing the Athletic Pathway, and Sport in Contemporary Society.

Cleland has authored or co-authored eight books, including A Sociology of Football in a Global Context (2015), Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game (2014, with Ellis Cashmore), Online Research Methods in Sport Studies (2020, with Kevin Dixon and Daniel Kilvington), and Screen Society (with Ellis Cashmore and Kevin Dixon). He has also produced six industry reports and over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics in sport management and the sociology of sport. His research examines football fandom, masculinities, racism, homophobia, violence in sport, abuse towards match officials, gender, sexuality, race, active supporter mobilisations, communication, and security at sports events. Key recent publications include 'Toxic whiteness in sports fandom: a reflective analysis of fan racism between football codes in the United Kingdom and Australia' (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024), 'Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia' (International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2024), and 'Digital Patriarchy and the Perceived Threat of Andrew Tate: Women’s Experiences in the Platformed Risk Society' (Sociology, 2026). Cleland's findings have garnered international media attention from NBC, Reuters, the BBC, The Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph.