Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
La Trobe Business SchoolMelbourne (Bundoora)
BA, M (Sport Mananagement), PhD
Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Board Member, VicSport Women's Sport Advisory Group, OnSide Victoria Board Member
Sport Management
Emma Sherry is a Senior Lecturer within the La Trobe University Centre for Sport and Social Impact, specialising in the area of sport management and sport development. Emma has completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Business (Sport Management) and PhD at Deakin University. Emma's PhD studies investigated conflict of interest in the Australian Football League, and her current research interests include community development through sport activities, such as the Homeless World Cup and street soccer programs. Other recent research has included the role of disability sport programs, regional and rural sport provision,sport in correctional facilities, sport and social capital, sport and recreation for at-risk and marginalised communities, community benefit of sport facilities and barriers to female sport participation.
Outside of her academic career, Emma has worked in roles in the area of sport facility and event management and recreation management within the local government and university sport sectors. Emma is also the Secretary of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) and sits on the vicSport Board.
During 2012 Dr Emma Sherry is teaching in the areas of sport development and not-for-profit governance.
Sherry, E. & de Haan, D. (2012). Shared experience of an international teaching collaboration: from bemoaning blogging to reflective practice. Reflective Practice. 13 (6) 805-820. DOI:10.1080/14623943.2012.697882
Sherry, E. & Strybosch, V. (2012) A kick in the right direction: longitudinal study of The Big Issue Community Street Soccer Program. Soccer and Society. DOI:10.1080/14660970.2012.677225
de Haan, D. & Sherry, E. (2012). Internationalisation of the sport management curriculum; academic and student reflections. Journal of Studies in International Education. DOI: 10.1177/1028315311403487
Grieve, J. & Sherry, E. (2012). Community Benefits of Major Sport Facilities: the Darebin International Sports Centre. Sport Management Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2011.03.001
Sherry, E & Osborne, A. (2011). A Tale of Two Events? Media analysis of the Melbourne 2008 Homeless World Cup. Media International Australia, 140, 97-106.
Sherry, E., Karg, A. & O’May, F. (2011). Social capital and sport events: spectator attitudinal change and the Homeless World Cup. Sport in Society, 14 (1), 111-125.
De Haan, D. and Sherry, E. (2010). Home and Away – is it different Down Under? Using the Olympics as a vehicle for internationalizing the curriculum. Hospitality Leisure Sport and Tourism Network Link 26. www.heacademic.ac.uk/hlst
McDonald, H & Sherry, E. (2010) Evaluating sport club performance: A customer perspective. Journal of Sport Management, 24, 524-543.
Sherry, E. (2010). (Re)engaging marginalised groups through sport development programs: the Homeless World Cup. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45 (1), 59-72.
Sherry, E. (2010). Book Review – Coalter (2007) A wider social role for sport – who’s keeping the score?. Sport Management Review.
Sherry, E & Shilbury, D. (2009), Board directors and conflict of interest: A study of a sport league. European Sport Management Quarterly, 9 (1), 47-62.
Sherry, E., Shilbury, D. & Wood, G. (2007). Wrestling with Conflict of Interest in Sport Management. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 7 (3), 267-277.
Sherry, E. & Shilbury, D. (2007). Impact of Social Expectations on Ethical Governance. Annals of Leisure Research, 10 (3&4), 413-430.
Emma Sherry is involved in a number of research projects with the Centre for Sport and Social Impact. Details of CSSI research projects can be found here http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cssi/research