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Dr Mark Doidge

Lecturer

contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR

Email: M.Doidge@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Globalisation of Sport
  • Football Culture and Politics
  • Corruption and Sport
  • The Performance of Identity
  • The Sporting Body

Biography

Mark originally studied Law at Kingston University before embarking upon a career in business with a telecommunications multinational. After the company relocated to China, he returned to higher education, originally taking an MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter and focused on sport in the Ancient World. His interest in sport continued through completion of a PhD (also at the University of Exeter) that investigated football, politics and fan identity in Italian football.

Mark teaches on a wide range of undergraduate modules related to the sociology of sport, politics and sports policy. He has also taught at the University of Exeter and St Mary's University College, Twickenham where he taught a range of sociology and sociology of sport modules.

Mark is an active member of the British Sociology Association, and whilst a postgraduate, Mark was convenor of the Postgraduate Forum. He is currently a convenor on the Early Career Forum for the British Sociological Association. This forum exists to help early career researchers as they begin their post-PhD careers - http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ECForum/. Mark is also membership secretary of the BSA Sport Study Group.

Research Publications

Doidge, M (2013) “If you jump up and down, Balotelli dies”: Racism and player abuse in Italian football, International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Doidge, M (2013) “The birthplace of Italian Communism”: Political Identity and Action amongst Livorno fans”, Soccer and Society

Doidge, M (2013) “The birthplace of Italian Communism”: Political Identity and Action amongst Livorno fans” Soccer and Society (in press).

Doidge, M (2012) “How many qualitative interviews is enough?” in Baker, S and Edwards, R (eds) How many qualitative interviews is enough? Expert voices and early career reflections on sampling and cases in qualitative research, National Centre for Research Methods.

Doidge, M (2011) La Vecchia signora non sfigurerà all’estero, Il Giornale dell'Architettura, October 98.

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