Dr. Jean Williams
School of English, Performance and Historical Studies.
International Centre for Sports History and Culture.
Contact Details
Room: Clephan 3.06C
Telephone (work): 0116 250 6304
Fax: 0116 250 6130
Email: jwilliam@dmu.ac.uk
Jean Williams is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture. She has acted as consultant to sports organisations, including FIFA, and for the media, for example, the BBC Nation on Film Series. Jean is author of A Game For Rough Girls: A History of Women's Football in England (Routledge 2003) and A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football (Berg 2007).
Current research interests
- The social and cultural history of sport, physical education and gender
- Creating women's sports history online archives
- Treatments of sport in fiction and non fiction writing
- Amateur Football
Recent Publications
Books
- A Game For Rough Girls: A History of Women's Football in England (Routledge, 2003)
- Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football (Berg 2007)
Recent Book Cover 
Book Chapters and Articles
- ‘'The Fastest Growing Sport? Women's Football in England' in Kicking off a New Era: Women's Football in the World - Progress and Problems Fan Hong and JA Mangan (Frank Cass, 2003)
- 'An Equality Too Far? A Thematic Review of European Issues Relating to Women's Football' New Approaches in Football History Themenheft von Historical Social Research 1/2006
- A Grass Ceiling? Women and the Historiography of Association Football in Britain Sociological Themes and Women's Football eds. Jon Magee et al. (Meyer and Meyer 2007)
Teaching
- De Montfort University Curriculum Innovation and Design Award 2005/6 and a Higher Education Academy Education Studies subject Centre (ESCalate) award 2006/7
- Postgraduate: MA and PhD supervision
Education
- PhD De Montfort University, Leicester. Thesis: The Revival of Women’s Football and English Culture 1960-2000;
- MA Modern Literature: Theory and Practice Leicester University;
- PGCE English Sheffield Hallam;
- BA Psychology Open University;
- BA English Loughborough University.
Jean is also a UEFA ‘B’ Licence Coach and a FA Child Protection Tutor.
