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Research Degree Supervision Expertise

Currently the school provides specialist expertise to supervise research students in the areas listed below. The staff are broadly categorised below by Areas but there is considerable cross-over in some research topics and therefore joint supervision is always considered, to best tailor expertise to a student’s project.

Physical Education and Dance

Key supervisors

Areas of expertise

Sid Hayes

Physical education pedagogy; sociology of physical education; equity and inclusion

Dr Richard Royce

Philosophy of education; Moral education; Philosophical considerations of physical education and sport; Analysis of sport concepts

Dr Gary Stidder

Gender and Physical Education ; Outdoor Education ; Pedagogy of Teaching and Learning ; Mentoring in Physical Education Teacher Training

Dr Andy Theodoulides

Personal and moral development in physical education; historical development of PE; equity and inclusion

Sport and Exercise Science

Key supervisors

Areas of expertise

Dr Martin Bailey

Biomechanics of overuse knee injury (applied to cycling); cycling performance; fatigue; footwear mechanics and microclimate

Dr Louisa Beale

Cardiac rehabilitation;  Exercise training for chronic heart failure patients; Exercise prescription for special populations, including pregnancy;  Primary care exercise referral

Dr Gary Brickley

Exercise in heart failure patients; physical activity in cystic fibrosis children; physiological responses to exercise in Cerebral palsy athletes; intermittent exercise; muscle metabolism; critical power

Dr Helen Carter

Measure of endurance capacity; Physiology of endurance training; Exercise intensity domains

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

Energetic, neuromuscular fatigue and exercise tolerance; training;  swimming physiology

Prof Jo Doust

Oxygen uptake kinetics and critical power; walking schemes and public health promotion

Bill Filby

Application of goal-setting theory to sport ; Efficacy of Psychological Skills Training ; Processing of visual information by sports performers; Self presentation and expectancy effects

Dr Sarah Hardcastle

Exercise adoption and adherence; behaviour change; the promotion of physical activity; interpretive methods; Motivational interviewing

Dr Neil Maxwell

Exercise & Environmental Physiology; heat strain and tolerance; heat acclimation, pre-cooling and hydration manoeuvers; pacing strategies and exercise performance in the heat;  thermal sensitivity in multiple sclerosis; physiology of high-altitude exposure and training;  tolerance to hypoxia/altitude

Dr Alan Richardson

Prediction of altitude tolerance; Hypoxic and altitude training; Metabolism and weight loss in hypoxia; Hydration status and physiological performance; Fluid balance; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing.

Dr Emma Ross

Neurophysiology of sport and exercise; the role of the central nervous system in exercise induced fatigue; the effect of extreme environmental perturbations on central nervous system function (e.g. heat, hypoxia); exercise in populations with neurodegenerative disease. . 

Dr Nick Smeeton

Training anticipation and decision-making skill in sport; facilitating and developing expert performance; applying motor control and learning theory to skill learning

Dr Peter Watt

Exercise and diabetes; measuring metabolism in man; influences in gene and environment on metabolism and body composition; exercise and health

Dr Nick Webborn

Disabled sport; Paralympics; disabled athletes

Sport and Leisure Cultures

Key supervisors

Areas of expertise

Dr Daniel Burdsey

Football and its communities; Race and ethnicity; British Asian communities; Sport, space and place; Sport stadia; Sport and diaspora; Seaside leisure; Sport and international development

Dr Tom Carter

Anthropology of Sport; Cuba, Caribbean, and Latin America;  Ethnography;   Space, place, and the city;  Sovereignty, citizenship, and the state;  transnational Labour migration;  conceptualizations of the coast

Dr Jayne Caudwell

Gender theory and theories of sexuality in sport and leisure studies; feminist theory and feminist methodologies, the body, subjectivity and identity; Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) sport cultures.

Dr Megan Chawansky

Girls’ and feminist studies of sport and physical culture; sport and international development and peace; qualitative research methodologies, especially creative analytic practices and personal narrative, US sport and sporting cultures.

Dr Mark Doidge

Globalisation of Sport ; Football Culture and Politics ; Corruption and Sport; The Performance of Identity ; The Sporting Body; The performance of masculinity, Europeanisation and European approaches to sport, Fan-groups (in particular Ultras and Hooligans), and New Social Movements

Dr Paul Gilchrist

Sport politics & policy; Sport history; Lifestyle sport; Cultural geography

Dr Marc Keech

Sport policy and development in Britain; Political history of sport; Reflective Practice in Sport Development and Management; Sport and International Relations;  Sport in South Africa

Dr Gill Lines

Media Sport - textual and audience analysis of media sport events, sport stars and gendered identities; Young People - media and sporting interests, consumption and interpretation; Physical Education- socio-cultural issues in pedagogy

Dr Ian McDonald

Sport documentaries; sport and India; sport and critical social theory; sport and politics

Prof John Sugden

Global politics of sport; sport and international relations; sport in divided societies; sport and deviance; ethnographic and investigative research methods

Prof Alan Tomlinson

The application of cultural studies to the analysis of sport; consumption and identity; investigative sociology and sport journalism; sport and spectacle

Dr Belinda Wheaton

Lifestyle/action/adventure sport cultures; the sporting body identity and difference (gendered bodies, ageing bodies, racialised bodies); leisure and environmentalism; ethnography and qualitative research methods ( e.g. media consumption); leisure and space (rural and urban); youth cultures and the politics of popular culture

Tourism, Hospitality and Events

 

Areas of expertise

Dr Angela Benson

Volunteer tourism; volunteering in a sporting context; Nature-based Tourism niches; Sustainable tourism development

Prof Peter Burns

Tourism policy and planning; Tourism and social science of  climate change; Tourism and poverty reduction strategies; Tourism and social identity; Tourism and visual culture; Tourism and the Pacific Islands

Dr Alberto Forte

Planning and development of tourism in peripheral cities; Tourism, politics, and the culture of urban change; Urban spaces and the construction of urban tourism places

Dr Paul Frost

Service innovation management; principles of learning generally and in the development of individuals and organisations.

Dr Steven Goss-Turner

Organisational culture and labour turnover within the service sector; Human resource management in multi-site hospitality businesses

Dr Brian Holdstock

Operations management especially logistics and supply chain management; business strategy especially business models, financial strategy and resource planning; new product development in theory and in practice

Dr Nigel Jarvis

Gender and sexuality issues in the leisure, tourism and event sectors; sport tourism; Sport and event sponsorship; identity issues among sport athletes and event participants; socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism; attractions management

Dr Jo-Anne Lester

Tourism, space and place; embodiment and the senses; visuality and tourism; tourism, film and photography; cruise tourism.

Dr Udo Merkel

Sociology and politics of international sports events and spectacles; International politics/foreign policy  and sport in Europe and South-East Asia; The socio-historical development of the Soccer World Cup and European football cultures; Divided societies, inequalities, power and conflicts;

Dr Ricky Mitchell

SME retailing; SME marketing; Brand management; Brand Communities / Consumer tribes

Dr Marina Novelli

Regional development and tourism; tourism policy and planning: tourism and international development; niche tourism; rural diversification & tourism; sustainable development approaches (ie responsible tourism, community based tourism, pro-poor tourism); tourism and development in sub-Saharan Africa; capacity building in tourism development

Dr Catherine Palmer

Application of anthropology to the understanding of tourism; tourism, space and place; identity; heritage; embodiment and the senses; collection and use of travel photographs, postcards, souvenirs; cultural analysis of the seaside.

Dr Ioannis Pantelidis

Consumer behaviour in hospitality; social media, e-hospitality; food and beverage management; Hospitality technology and consumer perceptions.

Dr Clare Weeden

Ethical and responsible tourism; Ethical consumption; Values; Consumer behaviour and motivation; Destination marketing; Cruise tourism