prof.dr. (Jacco) JC van Sterkenburg

Biography

Jacco van Sterkenburg works as an Endowed Professor " 'Race' , Inclusion and Communication, specifically in relation to Football and Media" in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University. He obtained his PhD at the Humanities faculty of Utrecht University in 2011. In addition, Jacco has an MA (Drs.) degree in Psychology at Utrecht University with a specialization in Cross-cultural Psychology. For the past years, Jacco van Sterkenburg’s research has focused in particular on the following topics:
* Football and racism in a broad sense, including media, leadership, professional and recreational sports/football
* Media, Inclusion and Diversity
* Race, ethnicity, gender, whiteness in sports media, sport leadership and sport coaching, in an internationally comparative perspective
* the Paralympics on television.
Jacco’s research has gained recognition inside and outside academia. This is evident from academic awards and grants such as the NWO Vidi grant for a 5-year project on race/ethnicity and whiteness in mediated football (2018-2023), National Science Agenda (NWA) and Erasmus+ grants (co-applicant) on race and gender in sport media and in football leadership across European football, FIFA and UEFA scholarships, and KNAW and various Erasmus University Rotterdam grants. He has publications in books (e.g. on sport and race/ethnicity, with Routledge) and peer-refereed journals such as Media Culture & Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Language and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Sport, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Soccer & Society. He has participated in advisory committees, popular fora, debates, and radio and TV programs. Moreover, Jacco acts as a supervisor (‘co-promotor’) of six PhD candidates and has been a visiting faculty at Leeds Beckett University, Roehampton University, Brunel University (London), University of Copenhagen, and a Visiting Professor at Victoria University Melbourne (Australia, January 2018). Currently, Jacco van Sterkenburg is also a Guest Researcher at Mulier Institute; Associate Editor of the peer-refereed journal Communication and Sport; Editorial board member of diverse academic journals; and one of the twelve Advisory Board Members of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) (2016-2023). Jacco’s teaching focuses on intercultural communication, racism and inclusion, research methods, sociology of sport and football, media and diversity, audience reception research and theory, politics of representation. He holds the Senior Qualification for Teaching (SKO) and acts as the BA-1 coordinator of the International Bachelor Communication and Media (IBCoM) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.    

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Endowed professor | Department of Media and Communication
Email
sterkenburg@eshcc.eur.nl
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Associate professor | Department of Media and Communication
Email
sterkenburg@eshcc.eur.nl
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

Work

  • Jacco Sterkenburg (20 juni 2020) - Inteview about racism and the TV football program ‘Veronica Inside’
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (14 juni 2020) - My research on institutional racism in football mentioned in interview with opinion maker Zihni Ozdil
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (18 november 2019) - Nieuwsuur
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (3 juli 2019) - Acht uur Journaal
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2 april 2019) - Radio Rijnmond
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (18 maart 2019) - BBC Leeds Radio
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (4 maart 2019) - SKY News
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (1 januari 2019) - Al ben je Johan Cruijff, als je discrimineert, krijg je van mij rood (interview in dagblad TROUW)
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (1 januari 2019) - Zelfbeeld van Nederlanders over racisme is te positief (Interview in Nederlands Dagblad
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (1 januari 2019) - Racisme sluimert altijd in de samenleving, dus ook in voetbal (Interview in dagblad NRC Next)

  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Race in sport’. Online conversation with Dr. Akilah Carter Francique.
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Where are the Black coaches’? Panel presenter in the Fare football people week. With Humberto Tan, Michael Johnson et al. 20 October 2020
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Reproducing and challenging everyday racism in and through (mediated) football’.
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Inclusive teaching and learning best practice. Online workshop’.
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - Expert and panelist in the ‘Ethnic Minority Women’s group on improving representation in leadership roles’.
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Race, ethnicity, whiteness and mediated stereotypes in football coaching’.
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - ‘Voetbal en racisme; Welke rol spelen de media?
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - International Communication Association (ICA), panellist on invitation, for panel ‘The Sports Communication Playing Field: Leading International Scholars Consider the Research Agenda’
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2020) - Football and racism
  • Jacco Sterkenburg (2019) - ‘Beeldvorming en institutioneel racisme’ [Media imagery and institutional racism].

  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2020) - Research project proposal granted: Social inequality in sport and exercise in the COVID-19 context. Financed by ZonMw. Co-applicant with a.o. Radboud University, Mulier Institute, NOC*NSF, VSG, Sport Utrecht, GGD Gelderland
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2020) - Co-applicant in accepted Erasmus+ project on diversity and football leadership (iFLIPP) (2020-22)
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2020) - Co-applicant in accepted Ministry of Social Affairs Grant on discrimination against youth of African origin (2020)
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2018) - How racist is televised football and do audiences react?
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2016) - Small grant Kennis Centrum Sport
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2016) - Awarded REI grant for research on migration histories, citizenship and sport (co-applicant)
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2015) - EUR Fellowship on sport media audiences, race and gender
  • Jacco van Sterkenburg (2014) - EUR Research Prize

WODC

Start date approval
december 2022
End date approval
april 2023
Place
DEN HAAG
Description
Voorzitter wetenschappelijke begeleidingscommissie

Master Class

Year Level
MA, MA, MA, MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM4500

Master Thesis

Year Level
MA, MA, MA, MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM5000

Methods of Media Research II

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM4304C

Methods of Media Research

Year Level
MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM4304

Feeling Orange

Level
BA and MA
Year Level
BA and MA
Year
2022
Course Code
FC0031

Methods of Media Research I

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM4304B

Master Thesis

Level
MA-2
Year Level
MA-2
Year
2022
Course Code
CS5050

Feeling Orange

Level
BA and MA
Year Level
BA and MA
Year
2022
Course Code
FC0030

Television Audiences

Year Level
MA, MA-2, MA
Year
2022
Course Code
CM4351

Intercultural Communication

Level
BA-1
Year Level
BA-1
Year
2022
Course Code
CM1010

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