Conference Presentations
Selected presentations
2024 (with T. Harris & J. Gow). A review of head coach recruitment processes at multi-club ownership groups. (Awarded best presentation in the Football Business stream). Football Collective conference. Northumbia University, England - 21 November.
2023 (with M. Pacini). Forest Green Rovers – Champions of Sustainability? The engagement and impact of a football club’s environmental strategy and the responsibility of sport to promote climate action. European Association of Sport Management. Ulster University, Northern Ireland - 14 September.
2023. Building soft power and avoiding soft disempowerment through football mega-events: addressing multiculturalism and global culture in Qatar. The Discourse on the Qatar 2022 World Cup: Power, Politics and Aspiration. The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Doha, Qatar - 16 March.
2022. A student-led, Global North refugee and asylum seeker football project. Sport, Development and Peace: current challenges and global developments. Université Catholique de Lille, France - 28 October.
2022 (with J. A. L. Ludvigsen). KEYNOTE: Paris 2022 - securitising football events. Future of football conference. Solent University, England - 29 June.
2021 (with K. Adeosun). Tokyo 2020 and the 2019 RWC. World Congress of the Sociology of Sport. Universidad Andres Bello. Santiago, Chile - 15 November.
2020 (with Z. Chikh). Leadership and BAME. Women’s football conference. UCLAN, England - 29 July.
2019. CONIFA. Football Collective conference. Sheffield Hallam University, England - 29 November.
2018. Marketing the 2018 World Cup. Sport management conference, Sport Academy, Kazan, Russia - 27 November.
2018. Football across borders. International sport management conference. UCLAN, Cyprus - 15 March.
2017. The Sarajevo derby. Football Collective conference. University of Limerick, Ireland - 23 November.
2017. Marketing sports events. DIW Institute for Economic Research. Berlin, Germany - 11 May.
2017. Managing crowds at sports events. Sport management conference. Paris, France - 19 April.
2016. KEYNOTE: Sport industry futures. LLS conference. Manchester, England - 27 October.
2015. Hooliganism in the Balkans. European Assocation of the Sociology of Sport conference. Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland - 12 June.
2015. Sport–for–development in Malawi. Sport Political Studies Association conference. Durham University, England - 7 January.
2014. Managing hooliganism. Probing the boundaries conference. University of Oxford, England - 31 August.
2014. Fan parks and mega–events. Leisure Studies Association conference. University of Western Scotland, Scotland - 9 July.
2013. MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon. Sport Political Studies Association conference. University of Bath, England - 2 February.
2012. Men’s Health. Exercise nutrition conference. Northumbria University, England - 15 December.
2011. Sport development in Tibet. Social sciences conference. Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic - 24 June.
2010. Sport and integration in Azerbaijan. UCSIA conference. University of Antwerp, Belgium - 15 October.
2010. Foreign ownership at English Premier League clubs. European Association of the Sociology of Sport conference. Porto, Portugal - 8 May.
2010 (with N. Chan). The 39th Game. Culture and Identity. Malmö University, Orkanen, Sweden - 9 April.
2010. Disorder and Welsh nationalism. The IJAS Conference. University of Malta, Malta - 17 February.
2009 (with P. Millward). LFC and celebrities. European Association of the Sociology of Sport conference. Scuolo dello Sport, Rome, Italy - 29 May.
2008. Liberia, football, peace. Sport development conference. Brunel University, England - 26 April.
2007. Olympic football. Sports history conference. University of Stirling, Scotland - 27 August.
