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Popi Sotiriadou

Popi Sotiriadou

Associate Professor Popi Sotiriadou is an international expert in managing high performance sport. Popi started her career in sport as an elite athlete in yachting and this drove her interest to fulfill a doctorate in sport management at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, examining “The sport participation legacies and impact of elite athlete success at the Olympics on sport participation’’.
Popi is passionate about inclusive, safe, and enabling environments or venues for sports participation for children, older people, indigenous people, or people with disabilities of any gender and ethnicity. Her research focuses on the ways digital innovation and technologies can advance enabling programs, policies, and events/competitions.
Her experiences span from sports infrastructure and facility management to sports education and elite athlete management (talent attraction, development, retention, dual careers, performance, and retirement).
Her expertise has resulted in invitations to act as a consultant to the International Olympic Committee, Sports Australia, Sarawak in Malaysia, and the Queensland Academy of Sport. Popi is the editor of the book Managing High-Performance Sport and has expertise in digital innovation in sport, elite athlete branding, managing sport development systems, sport policy, and gender equity and leadership. Popi is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, an editorial member for the Journal of Sport Management, and a foundational member of the Sport and Gender Equity @ Griffith research hub.