Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy
Comparative and Transnational Sport and Leisure Policy
Work under this theme incorporates work principally by Dr. Mahfoud Amara and Professors Henry and Houlihan, and focuses on the local, national and global context of governance, management and policy-making in sport and leisure.
It incorporates critical and strategic policy analysis for major bodies such as the Council of Europe, UK Sport, and Sport England, collaborative work on sports policy with partners in universities in France, Japan, and Norway. and the generation of research publications. Five full time and one part-time PhD students are currently being supervised working on projects under this theme.
Recent and ongoing projects
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Sport and Multicultural Dialogue: a review of policy in the 25 European Member States, Amara, M, Aquilina, D, and Henry, I with PMP Consultants.
A study undertaken for the European Commission DG Education and Culture, 2004.
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The Education of Elite Young Sportspersons: a review of policy in the 25 European Member States, Amara, M, Aquilina, D, and Henry, I with PMP Consultants
A study undertaken for the European Commission DG Education and Culture, 2004.
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Sport, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Amara, M, Aquilina, D, and Henry, I, Coalter, F, Taylor J
A study undertaken for the European Commission DG Education and Culture, as part of the Euroepan Year of Education through Sport, 2004.
Recent / forthcoming publications
- Green, M. & Houlihan, B. (forthcoming 2005), Elite sport development: Policy learning and political priorities, London: Routledge.
- Green, M. (2004), Power, policy and political priorities: Elite sport development in Canada and the United Kingdom, Sociology of Sport Journal, 21: 376-396.
- Green, M. & Houlihan, B. (2004). Advocacy coalitions and elite sport policy change in Canada and the United Kingdom, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 39(4): 387-403.
- Henry, I., Amara, M., Al-Tauqi, M., Lee, Ping Chao (2005 forthcoming), A Typology of Approaches to Comparative Analysis of Sports Policy, Journal of Sport Managemen.t
- Amara, M. & Henry, I., Between Globalization and Local 'Modernity': The Diffusion and Modernization of Football in Algeria, Soccer and Society, Vol 5, No. 1, pp 1-26, 2004 ISSN 1466-0970.
- Amara, M., Al-Tauqi, M. and Henry, I.P., Sport, Arab Nationalism and the Pan-Arab Games, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38(3), 2003, 295-310, ISSN 0074 7769.
- Houlihan, B.M., Dying to Win: Doping in sport and the development of anti-doping policy (2nd Edition), Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 2002, 247pp, ISBN 92871 46853.
- Dulac, C. and Henry, I.P., Sport and Social Regulation in the City: the Case of Grenoble and Sheffield, Loisir et Societe , 241 , 2001, 47-76.
- Henry, I.P. and Uchiumi, K., Political Ideology, Modernity and Sports Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Sports Policy in Britain and Japan, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences, 332, 2001, 161-185, ISSN 0073 280X.
Recently completed PhDs
- Amara, M., Global Sport and Local Identity: case study of the professionalisation of sport in Algeria, 2003.
- Girginov, V., Bulgarian Sports Policy in the 20th Century: a Strategic Relations Perspective, 2000.
- Green, M., An analysis of elite sport policy change in three sports in Canada and the United Kingdom, 2003.
- Liu, Hung-Yu, Sport and Physical Recreation Policy in Taiwan 1973-2000, 2003.
- Matthews, N., Sport, Policy and Europeanisation: Process and Interest Mediation in European Union Decision Making, 2000
- Paramio Salcines, J-L., Public-Private Partnerships, Sport and Urban Regeneration in Britain and Spain, 2000
Ongoing PhD studies
- Betser-Tayar, M. (2003 p/t), Women and Leadership in International Sport Federations: Reviewing the IOC Targets (supervised by Professor I.P. Henry).
- Chin, Yi-Wen (2004 f/t), Women's Roles in the Organisation of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (supervised by Professor I.P. Henry).
- Lee, Ping Chao (2002 f/t), The Development of Professional Sport in Taiwan (supervised by Professor I.P. Henry).
- Radzi, Wirdati (2003 f/t), Muslim Women and Sports Leadership in Malaysia (supervised by Professor I.P. Henry).
- Tan, Tien-Chin (2003 f/t), Chinese Sport and Globalisation (supervised by Professor B. Houlihan).
- Yamamoto, Mayumi Ya-Ya (2003 f/t), The Impact of the International Sport Policy Regime on Domestic Sport Policy in Japan and the UK (supervised by Professor B. Houlihan).
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