Dr Daniel Burdsey
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643745
Email: D.C.Burdsey@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- British Asian identities and popular culture
- Racism in sport
- Football and its communities
- Theorising racism, multiculturalism and diversity
- New spaces of multiculture
- Race, ethnicity and identity in coastal environments
Research cluster group membership
Dan is a core member of the Lifestyle Sport and Communities, and Sport and International Relations groups
Biography
Dan obtained an Upper Second Class BSc (Hons) in Sport and Recreation Studies (University of Birmingham, 1998), an MA (Distinction) in Sociology of Sport (University of Leicester, 1999) and a PhD in Sociology (Brunel University, 2004). He teaches on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to the sociology of sport, leisure and popular culture. He is the school admissions tutor.
During the late 1990s he was a member of the Leicester City FC Anti-Racist Task Force which initiated the Foxes Against Racism project and he has since carried out consultancy work around British Asian football fans (with the Asian Football Network) for the FA Premier League and Fulham FC.
Dan has discussed his research in a number of media outlets, including BBC Radio Four, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Radio Asian Network, BBC Radio West Midlands, Radio Ramadan Edinburgh and The Islam Channel. Dan is on the editorial board for Sport in Society and International Sport Studies. He is interested in supervising doctoral students working in areas related to his research interests
Research Publications
BURDSEY, DANIEL (2013) ‘The foreignness is still quite visible in this town’: multiculture, marginality and prejudice at the English seaside Patterns of Prejudice, 47 (2). ISSN 0031-322X
Sanders, A., Heys, B., RAVENSCROFT, NEIL and BURDSEY, DANIEL (2012) Making a difference: the power of football in the community Soccer and Society . ISSN 1466-0970
BURDSEY, DANIEL and Randhawa, K. (2012) How can professional football clubs create welcoming and inclusive stadia for British Asian fans? Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure & Events, 4 (1). pp. 105-111. ISSN 1940-7963
BURDSEY, DANIEL (2011) Strangers on the shore? Racialized representation, identity and in/visibilities of whiteness at the English seaside Cultural Sociology, 5 (4). pp. 537-552. ISSN 1749-9755
Burdsey, Daniel (2011) That joke isn't funny anymore: racial microaggressions, color-blind ideology and the mitigation of racism in English men's first-class cricket Sociology of Sport Journal , 28 (3). pp. 261-283. ISSN 0741-1235
Burdsey, Daniel (2011) The techicolor Olympics? Race, representation and the 2012 London Games In: Sugden, J. and Tomlinson, A, eds. Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation. Routledge, London, pp. 69-81. ISBN 0415578337
BURDSEY, DANIEL (2011) Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society . Routledge, London. ISBN 0415882052
Burdsey, Daniel (2011) They think it’s all over...it isn’t yet! The persistence of structural racism and racialised exclusion in twenty-first century football In: Burdsey, Daniel, ed. Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society . Routledge, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 0415882052
Burdsey, Daniel (2011) Applying a CRT lens to sport in the UK: the case of professional football In: Hylton, K., Pilkington, A., Warmington, P. and Housee, S., eds. Atlantic Crossings: International Dialogues on Critical Race Theory. C-SAP, Birmingham, pp. 39-60.
Burdsey, Daniel (2011) British Asians and the cultural politics of anti-racist campaigning in English football In: Alleyne, M., ed. Anti-racism and Multiculturalism: Studies in International Communication. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 187-2011. ISBN 978-1412813228
Burdsey, Daniel (2010) Midnight’s Grandchildren at the MCC: British Asians, identity and English first-class cricket In: Rumford, C and Wagg, S, eds. Cricket and Globalization. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 252-269. ISBN 1443823708
Burdsey, Daniel (2010) British Muslim experiences in English first-class cricket International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45 (3). pp. 315-334. ISSN 1461-7218
Burdsey, Daniel (2010) Forgotten fields? Centralizing the experiences of minority ethnic men’s football clubs in England In: Bandyopadhyay, K., ed. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer (Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives). Routledge, London. ISBN 0415497140
BURDSEY, DANIEL (2009) Forgotten fields? Centralizing the experiences of minority ethnic men's football clubs in England Soccer and Society, 10 (6). pp. 704-721. ISSN 1466-0970
BURDSEY, DANIEL (2008) Contested conceptions of identity, community and multiculturalism in the staging of alternative sport events: a case study of the Amsterdam World Cup football tournament Leisure Studies, 27 (3). pp. 259-277. ISSN 0261-4367
Burdsey, Daniel (2008) Half of some and half of the other. The racialised (dis)contents of Englishness In: Perryman, M, ed. Imagined Nation: England After Britain. Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, London, pp. 207-222. ISBN 1905007736
Burdsey, Daniel (2007) Role with the punches: the construction and representation of Amir Khan as a role model for multiethnic Britain The Sociological Review, 55 (3). pp. 611-631. ISSN 1467954X
Burdsey, Daniel (2007) British Asians and football: Culture, Identity, Exclusion Routledge critical studies in sport . Routledge, London. ISBN 0415395003
Burdsey, Daniel (2006) British Asians and football In: Ali, N., Kalra, V. and Sayyid, S., eds. A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. Hurst, Lonson, pp. 108-110. ISBN 1850657971
Burdsey, Daniel (2006) No ball games allowed? A socio-historical examination of the development and social significance of British Asian football clubs Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (3). pp. 477-496. ISSN 1469-9451
Burdsey, Daniel (2006) ‘If I ever play football, Dad, can I play for England or India?’ British Asians, sport and diasporic national identities Sociology, 40 (1). pp. 11-28. ISSN 1469-8684
Burdsey, Daniel (2005) Social identity In: Levinson, David and Christensen, Karen, eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport: 4 Volume Set. Berkshire Publishing Group, Berkshire. ISBN 0974309117
Burdsey, Daniel (2004) Obstacle race? 'race', racism and the recruitment of British Asian professional footballers Patterns of prejudice, 38 (3). pp. 279-299. ISSN 0031-322X
Burdsey, Daniel (2004) 'One of the lads'? Dual ethnicity and assimilated ethnicities in the careers of British Asian professional footballers Ethnic and racial studies, 27 (5). pp. 757-779. ISSN 14664356
Burdsey, Daniel and Chappell, R (2003) Soldiers, sashes and shamrocks: football and social identity in Scotland and Northern Ireland Sociology of Sport Online, 6 (1).
Burdsey, Daniel, Chappell, R and Collinson, K. (2003) “Race” and ethnicity in English netball Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 13 (1). pp. 50-61. ISSN 1063-6161
Burdsey, Daniel and Chappell, R (2001) `And if you know your history ': an examination of the formation of football clubs in Scotland and their role in the construction of social identity The Sports historian, 21 (1). pp. 94-106. ISSN 1351-4562
Research projects and scholarship profile
Research grants
- 2007 – £5936 from the British Academy for project entitled ‘The experiences of British Asian players in contemporary county cricket: ethnicity, identity, racism’ [PI]
- 2007 – £20,000 from the FA Premier League for research into British Asian football supporters [Co-I]
- 2010 – £4904 from University of Brighton Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) for project entitled ‘Life building for Sussex: empowering community development through a new community stadium’ [Co-I]
- 2011 – £6500 from the Football Foundation for project entitled ‘Understanding sustainability in relation to Football Foundation and Barclays facility projects’ [PI]
- 2012 – $145,718 from Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for project entitled ‘Multiculturalism and physical culture: the case of the Greater Toronto Area’ [International Collaborator]
- 2012 – £7500 from American Express for project entitled ‘Realise the potential of the community – volunteer impact study’ [PI]
- 2013 - £6000 from the Football Foundation for project entitled ‘Football Foundation funded 3G Football Turf Pitches (AGPs): access to football and sports participation within the local community’ [PI]
Peer review
Grant proposals for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Book manuscripts for Bloomsbury Academic, Edinburgh University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, University of Nebraska Press, University of Toronto Press
Journal submissions for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies; Current Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; European Physical Education Review; Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics; International Review for the Sociology of Sport; International Sport Studies; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events; Journal of Sport and Social Issues; Journal of Sport for Development; Leisure Studies; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Perpetual and Motor Skills; Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise; Qualitative Sociology; Soccer and Society; Sociology; Sociology of Sport Journal; Sport in History; Sport in Society; Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism; Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.
Current PhD students
Jacob Naish – Sport and international development
