Prof Alan Tomlinson
Professor of Leisure Studies
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Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643747
Email: A.Tomlinson@brighton.ac.uk
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Research interests
- The application of cultural studies to the analysis of sport
- The study of sport as part of a critical sociology of consumption
- Challenges of investigative sociology and the nature of sport journalism
- Sport and spectacle
Biography
English and Sociology BA (Hons) (Kent ); Social Science & English PGCE ( London Ext.); Sociological Studies MA (Sussex); D. Phil Sociological Studies (Sussex). He is the university's Director of Research and Development (Social Sciences) and his teaching has been in the social history of sport, the sociology of leisure and cultural studies; and supervising research students on media/ sport cultures and comparative sports cultures and politics (22 doctoral and 6 MPhil completions).
His previous books include Badfellas: FIFA Family at War , with John Sugden (Mainstream, 2003), The Game's Up (Ashgate, 1999), FIFA and the Contest for World Football, with John Sugden (Polity, 1998), and Consumption, Identity and Style (Routledge, 1990).
Drawing on long-established teaching and research in the field, he edited The Sport Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006) and wrote/edited A Dictionary of Sports Studies (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Selected external research-related roles
- Editor, International Review for the Sociology of Sport (17 issues, 2000-2004).
- Co-convenor, British Sociological Association Leisure & Recreation Study Group.
- Peer college, ESRC.
- International Fellow, The Australian Sociological Association Cultural Sociology Group.
- Academicien, Academy of the Social Sciences (UK).
- Editorial board/editorial advisory board member – Theory, Culture & Society; Sport in History; International Journal of Sport Tourism; Journal of Sport and Social Issues; The International Journal of Sports Science and Physical Education; International Review for the Sociology of Sport.Reviewer for: Body & Society; Leisure Studies; Critical Studies in Mass Communication; British Journal of Sociology; Global Society; Social Identities.
- Guest co-editor, issues of American Behavioral Scientist (volume 46, issue 11, 2003), Journal of Sport History Forum sections 2010 and 2011, European Review issue 2011, and Journal of Historical Sociology issue 2011/12.
Selected publications 2008 onwards
Tomlinson, A (2008) Taking the (Sea)Biscuit?: Sensory and Autobiographical Responses to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's In Praise of Athletic Beauty Sport in History, 28 (1). pp. 151-169. ISSN 1746-0271
Sugden, J and Tomlinson, A (2008) Sport Journalism: Persistent themes and changing times In: Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism. Routledge, London, pp. 153-161. ISBN 0415425557 (In Press)
Tomlinson, A (2008) Olympic Values, Beijing's Olympic Games and the Universal Market. In: Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Michigan, pp. 67-85. ISBN 047205032X
Tomlinson, A. and Young, C. (2010) Sport in History: Challenging the Communis Opinio Journal of Sport History, 37 (1). pp. 5-17. ISSN 0094-1700
Sugden, J. and Tomlinson, A. (2010) What Beckham Had for Breakfast: The Rolling Menu of 24/7 Sports News In: The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives. Peter Lang Pub Inc, Oxford, pp. 151-166. ISBN 978-1433107764
The world atlas of sport: Who plays what, where and why, Brighton/Oxford, Myriad Editions/New Internationalist, 2011 (US edition University of California Press).
Sugden, J. and Tomlinson, A, eds. (2011) Watching the Olympics: Politics, power, and representation Routledge. ISBN 0415578337
Tomlinson, A. and Young, C. (2011) Towards a new history of European sport European Review, 19 (4). pp. 487-507. ISSN 1062-7987
Tomlinson, Alan, Young, C and Holt, R. (2011) Sport and the transformation of modern Europe: Markets, media, states 1950-2010 Centre for Research into Socio-cultural Change Series ‘Culture, Economy & the Social’ . Routledge, London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978-0415592222
Tomlinson, Alan and Young, C. (2011) Sport in modern European history: trajectories, constellations, conjunctures Journal of Historical Sociology, 24 (4). pp. 409-427. ISSN 1467-6443
Research projects
‘The construction and mediation of the sporting spectacle in Europe, 1992-2004’ (British Academy, £6,759), personal small grant award, 2007-10.
Co-investigator, Sport in Modern Europe, AHRC Network, 2008-10, c. £29,000. See www.sport-in-europe.group.cam.ac.uk
