Stig Chen

Postgraduate Student; Football Coach at EUWAFC; Football Coach at Hibernian Foundation

Background

Stig is an experienced football coach, specialising in coaching women's football and youth football. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in Sport Management from Loughborough University. He is a current MSc Social Anthropology student, pursuing PhD programmes in the interdisciplinary area of sport studies and socio-cultural anthropology. 

Qualifications

UEFA C Licence

Responsibilities & affiliations

Head coach at EUWAFC

Research summary

Gender

Female Fandom

Ethnography of sport fans

Beijing

Football studies

Sport Anthropology

Sport Sociology 

Communication 

Social Media 

 

 

Current research interests

Exploring female and non-binary football fans' online fandom experience.

Past research interests

Exploring the Factors Determining Students’ Participation in Physical Activities in the Context of International Boarding School in the United Arab Emirates Public Relations in Sport Organisations: A Study of Not-for-Profit Sports-for-Development Organisations’ Use of LinkedIn to Build Relationships with the Public

Project activity

Published book:

Stig's Sundays: A Year by the Pitch (2023)

Stig's Idle Days: A Collection of Essays (2023)