Football Collective 2024: How can football take on tomorrow?

Like the world around it, football is subject to shifting and growing power imbalances. As these grow, critical thinking about the game has never been more necessary. The Collective can lead the way not only in holding people and organisations, to account be they clubs, governing bodies, the media, or others but also pursue new thinking and shape the future. Therefore, this year the Football Collective conference will seek to answer the question “How can football take on tomorrow?”.

Conference Programme and Keynotes:

We are delighted to announce our key note panelists as follows:

• Player Care: Past, Present and Future: Abby Carrington (Player Wellbeing Programme Manager at Manchester United), Charlie Maill (performance psychology consultant and former Head of Academy Player Care and Psychology at Doncaster Rovers; Dr Chris Platts (founder chrisplatts.co.uk); Tansy Tomlinson (Player Care Officer at Everton's Academy)

• Will the Football Governance Bill Improve Football Governance?: Kevin Miles (chief executive of the Football Supporters Association); Dr Christina Philippou (Associate Professor in Accounting and Sport Finance, Portsmouth University); Dr Dan Plumley (sports finance expert, Sheffield Hallam University); Jane Purdon (Professional Game Academy Audit Company Chair and Premiership Rugby Financial Monitoring Panel member)

• On the Same Team? Embedding Diversity into the Beautiful Game: Clarke Carlisle (former chair of the PFA and metal health advocate), Zoë Hingston (Director & EDI Advisory Board Chair, Northumberland FA, and former Head of Inclusion at Newcastle United), Jon Holmes (Media And Communications Officer at Football v Homophobia and founder of Sports Media LGBT+)

The full provisional schedule can be accessed here.

Registration and Fees:

• Date of event: 21/22 November 2024
• Last booking for event: 5pm, 6 November 2024
• Fees: Full delegate: £160 for both days, £100 per day (academics/practitioners).
• Student delegate: £80 for both days, £50 per day, (postgraduates, undergraduates and unwaged).
• Fees include attendance on both days of the conference, as well as lunch and the conference social event.

Please note: Registration is not valid until payment is completed.

Refunds will not be issued in the event of non attendance.

In the event that the conference is sold out, you will be placed on a waiting list and contacted via email if a space becomes available.

Location: Newcastle Civic Centre, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QH. The Civic Centre is a three-minute walk from the Haymarket Metro Station. Click here for information about the venue.

Contact:  FootballCollective2024@gmail.com

Accommodation:

For information about accommodation and delegate rates, please click here.

Conference social event:

We will be hosting an event at The City Tavern on the evening of Thursday 21 November. This cost of this (excluding drinks) is included in your registration fee.