Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester
My particular focus has been recent developments in professional football and football culture, but I am also interested in sociological questions around all sports including those around issues of race and gender, crowd behavior and management, globalisation, commercialisation, identity formation, sporting consumption, place and locality, and the impact of television on the production and consumption of sport and leisure.
I am also keen on developing new socio-historical perspectives on sport and much of my recent writing has been in this area. My research is both empirical and theoretical and I am happy to supervise students who want to examine sport and leisure in different cultures and/or who are interested in comparative studies. Finally I am an active sports fan and enjoy connecting my academic concern with my own sporting and cultural interests.
Football's coming home! But where is 'home' really for the England team?
Jul 09, 2018 14:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
I dont know whether youve heard it its just a rumour. This was an England supporter in Moscow recently talking on BBC Radio 5 Live, alongside an unsuspecting fan of a rival World Cup team. Rumour? he is asked, with...
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