{"id":4680,"date":"2020-12-08T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:33:33","slug":"academics-celebrate-highly-commended-paper-award-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2020\/12\/08\/academics-celebrate-highly-commended-paper-award-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics celebrate Highly Commended Paper award success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Football\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Huge congratulations to\u00a0Dr Girish Ramchandani<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Dr Daniel Plumley<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Rob Wilson\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on having their article ‘The unintended consequence of Financial Fair Play: An examination of competitive balance across five European football leagues’ selected as a\u00a0Highly Commended Paper<\/strong>\u00a0in the 2020 Emerald Literati Awards.<\/p>\n

Girish has kindly been speaking to us about the award recognition.<\/p>\n

How did you feel on\u00a0finding\u00a0out about your success?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sense of personal and professional pride. It is always encouraging, and something of an ego-boost, when your work is recognised and endorsed by the academic community.\u00a0The paper<\/a>\u00a0was a joint effort with Dr Dan Plumley and Dr Rob Wilson from the Sheffield Business School, both of whom deserve\u00a0an equal share in this success. This is the second occasion that I have won an Emerald Literati award for Highly Commended Paper in recent years, so hopefully this is the beginning of a long-term trend!<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

Dr Girish Ramchandani<\/p><\/div>\n

Can you provide a brief summary of your paper, and your reasons for writing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In short, the paper examined competitive balance in top division football leagues in England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain before and after the introduction of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations by UEFA in 2011. It shows that competitive balance has been adversely affected for some of these leagues since the FFP regulations were implemented and questions whether the regulations have had unintended consequences. The paper builds on a body of collaborative research on competitive balance in elite and professional sport that I have been involved in for some time now.<\/p>\n

Can you explain a little bit more about how the Literati award for Highly Commended Paper is awarded?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The editor and editorial advisory board of each journal (in this case Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal) is invited to select up to three \u2018Highly Commended Paper\u2019 awards from the previous year\u2019s volume. There are several criteria that underpin the award, including the originality, significance and rigour of the research as well as its impact beyond academia.<\/p>\n

What are the motivating factors that have led to your success?<\/strong>
\nConducting and disseminating research is something that I personally find therapeutic\u00a0\u2013 any success that comes my way from this process is always welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to\u00a0Dr Girish Ramchandani,\u00a0Dr Daniel Plumley,\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Rob Wilson\u00a0on having their article ‘The unintended consequence of Financial Fair Play: An examination of competitive balance across five European football leagues’ selected…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3083,"featured_media":4681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-successes","category-staffnews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2020\/12\/Highly-commended-paper.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-1du","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2833,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/11\/28\/dr-david-broom-elected-by-bases-as-physical-activity-for-health-division-chair\/","url_meta":{"origin":4680,"position":0},"title":"Dr David Broom elected by BASES as Physical Activity for Health division chair","author":"Sarah Briscoe","date":"November 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) has elected Dr David Broom to chair its Physical Activity for Health division. 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