Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy
Management and Policy Evaluation in Sport
Work under this theme is co-ordinated by Professor Barrie Houlihan and incorporates the work of Professor Ian Henry, and Dr Paul Downward.
There are three main areas of work within this theme the first of which is the evaluation and analysis, including economic analysis, of contemporary sport policy. The second area of work concerns the evaluation of the management techniques and practices of the sport and leisure industry. The third area of work is the evaluation of aspects of organisational governance which incorporates the evaluation and analysis of management structures, practices and styles of organisations within the public, voluntary and commercial sectors.
Current research and recent consultancy projects include an evaluation of sports colleges, an evaluation of the impact of School Sports Partnerships, site evaluation for a major property developer undertaken in partnership with PMP consultants, provision of advice to the Athens Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, and advice to a major European architecture firm on the market for new sporting services. Current and recent clients include the European Union, The Department for Education and Skills, the Youth Sport Trust, and the Council of Europe.
Currently three full-time and four part-time PhD studies are being supervised in this area.
A number of the above and other recent related projects are reported in some of the following publications:
Books
- Green, M. and Houlihan, B. (forthcoming 2005), Elite sport development: Policy learning and political priorities, London: Routledge.
- Houlihan, B. and White, A. (2002), The politics of sports development, Routledge: London.
Refereed journal papers
- Downward, P.M., Cope, A. and Lumsdon, L., (2004), Monitoring Long Distance Trails: The North Sea Cycle Route, Journal of Transport Geography Volume 12, Issue 1 , pp13-22.
- Downward, P.M. and Lumsdon, L. (2004), Tourism Transport and Visitor Spending: A study in The North York Moors National Park, UK, Journal of Travel Research, Vol 42, No 4, pp415-420.
- Downward, P.M. and Lumsdon L. (2003), Beyond the Demand for Day Visits, An Analysis of Visitor Spending, Tourism Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 67-76
- Downward, P.M. (2004), Assessing Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory via Leisure Demand: A Post Keynesian Perspective, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol 26, No 3, pp371-395.
- Green, M. (2004), Changing policy priorities for sport in England: The emergence of elite sport development as a key policy concern, Leisure Studies, 23(4): 365: 385.
- Green, M. (2004), Power, policy and political priorities: Elite sport development in Canada and the United Kingdom, Sociology of Sport Journal.
- Green, M. and Houlihan, B. (2004), Advocacy coalitions and elite sport policy change in Canada and the United Kingdom, International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
- Henry, I.P. (2001) Postmodernism and Power in Urban Policy: Implications for Sport and Cultural Policy in the City, European Sport Management Quarterly 1 (1), pp. 5-20.
- Houlihan, B.M. (2001), Citizenship, civil society and the sport and recreation profession, Managing Leisure: An International Journal pp. 1-14.
- Managing compliance in international anti-doping policy, European Sports Management Quarterly, summer, 2003.
- Houlihan, B. (2003), The politics of collaboration between higher education institutions and specialist sports colleges (with Dawn Penney), Journal of Education for Teaching, summer.
- Houlihan, B. (2004), Impacts of the Olympic Games as mega-events, Municipal Engineer, (with M Malfas and E Theodoraki) Issue 157.
- Theodoraki, E. (2001), A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Structural Configurations of Organising Committees for the Olympic Games, European Journal for Sport Management 7, pp. 34-41.
- Theodoraki, E. (2004), Sport Management Reform, National Competitiveness and Olympic Glory in the People's Republic of China, Managing Leisure: An International Journal Vol. 9 Number 4 October.
Book Chapters
- Henry, I.P. and Theodoraki, E. (2000), Management, Organisations and Theory in the Governance of Sport, in Handbook of Sport Studies, Coakley, J. and Dunning, E., Sage Publications: London.
- Theodoraki, E. (2001), The making of the UK Sports Institute in Sport in the City: The role of sport in economic and social regeneration Gratton, C. and Henry, I.P. Routledge: London.
- Theodoraki, E. (2003), Isomorphism in the Olympic Organisational field, The Case of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in Moragas, M., Kennett, C. and Puig, N. (Ed) The Legacy of the Olympic Games 1984-2000, 465-481 (Lausanne: International Olympic Committee) ISBN 929149-091-1.
Conference presentations
- Houlihan, B.M. (2001), Governance, Anti-Doping Policy and Europe, Governsport Workshop Loughborough, UK.
- Houlihan, B.M. (2001), Governance - Whose Sport? National Sports Development Conference Nottingham, UK.
- Theodoraki, E. (2004), Coubertin, Colonialism and Control of the Spread of Olympic Sport in Africa, 12th European Sport Management Congress, Ghent, Belgium with Dikaia Chatziefstathiou and Ian Henry.
- Theodoraki, E. (2004), Gender in Olympic Organisational Culture: A review of the IOC Policy of Setting Minimum Targets for the Promotion of Women in Executive Decision Making Positions in National Olympic Committees, 12th European Sport Management Congress, Ghent, Belgium with Ian Henry, Anita White, Wirdati Radzi, Emma Rich and Chris Shelton.
- Theodoraki, E (2002), National Competitiveness, New Managerialism and Olympic Glory in the People's Republic of China, European College of Sport Sciences Congress, Athens, Greece.