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Profile
Dr Mark Doidge is currently a Reader in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. After completing a Law degree at Kingston University in the 1990s, he worked in logistics in a multinational telecommunication company in Devon. After transferring the logistics to a new facility in China, he undertook an MA in Ancient History at Exeter University, before completing a PhD in Sociology on Italian football fandom. Mark is an active member of the British Sociological Association (BSA), where he is a trustee for Membership Services and convenor of the Sport Studies Group. He is also Director of the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe (FSE), as well as being a trustee of Pledgeball (an environmental charity) and Love Football, Hate Racism, and an advisory group member of the Football Supporters Association’s Fans For Diversity.