Invited Lectures
Kharazmi University, Iran – February 2025: Coaching, recruitment and sporting leadership: Insights from the Head of Research at a European football club
University of Michigan, USA – July 2024: Politicising Euro 2024, securitising soccer mega-events and promoting the fan experience
University of Vic UCC, Spain – January 2024: Mega-event marketing, creative content and social media
Loughborough University, England – February 2023 & March 2022: Strategic management and sport mega-events
University of London, England – May 2021: Politics, power, politics: contemporary sports mega-events - part 2
Ulster University, Northern Ireland – November 2020: English football and strategic business management - podcast
University of Limerick, Ireland – February 2020: Fandom and disorder in European football
UCLan, Cyprus – March 2018: CONIFA and international football in unrecognised countries
University of the Basque Country, Spain – May 2018: Tourism and place marketing; Filmmaking in disputed territories
University of Vic UCC, Spain – May 2017: The governance of sports mega events in the twenty-first century
University of Edinburgh, Scotland – February 2017: Sport-for-peace interventions in the Middle East
American University of Beirut, Lebanon – October 2016: Applying research methods in real-world settings
Malmö University, Sweden – May 2015: ‘Old fans, new customers’: localism and globalism in English football
Sofia University, Bulgaria – November 2014: Youth cultures, fandom and disorder in South-eastern Europe
Pacific University, Oregon, USA – November 2014: Football fandom and football hooliganism in the UK and Europe
University of Brighton, UK – September 2014: Football for Peace: coaching sport in fractured communities
SOS Children’s Villages, Malawi – September 2014: Sport, culture and education – from Europe to Africa
VIA University Aarhus, Denmark – May 2013: Sport, conflict and peacebuilding
University of Technology Sydney, Australia – August 2011: Playing sport and constructing community cohesion
Sport University, Cologne, Germany – June 2010: Football and peacebuilding in Africa and the Middle East
SOS Tibetan Homes Foundation, India – July 2009: Sport, values and development; International sports coaching






