School of Sport and Service Management

COASTAL CULTURES

JUNE 1, 2012. A one day conference presented by the University of Brighton in partnership with the Leisure Studies Association. http://www.leisure-studies-association.info/LSAWEB/2012Coastal/Main.html

Keynote speaker: Professor Fred Gray, Emeritus Professor (Centre for Community Engagement), University of Sussex:

On the edge: some cultures of the coast

Presentations:

Anya Chapman ‘Game over’? The decline of the British seaside amusement arcade

Daniel Burdsey Not just the colour of the sand: the beach as a ‘white’ leisure space

Leila Dawney Undercliff

Jaime Kaminski Every house brimful: lodging visitors in eighteenth century Brighton

Colin Harding Sunny snaps: commercial beach photography in Britain

Paul Farrington Floating memories: Brighton Swimming Club

Deborah Madden Archive fever: local history, heritage and coastal ‘regeneration’

Alberto Forte Between urban regeneration and tourism rejuvenation: the changing culture of the English seaside town

Paul Gilchrist Seaside towns and social tone: the petition against the Bexhill and Hastings greyhound racing stadium

The poster for the event is Coastal_cultures_poster.pdf

To attend, please register with D.C.Burdsey@Brighton.ac.uk by 25 May 2012. The conference will be held in G41, Hillbrow Building, Chelsea School of Sport, Denton Road, Eastbourne, BN20 7SP

Visiting Scholar Master Class: Professor George Ritzer

We are pleased, and excited, to confirm that Professor George Ritzer will visit the University of Brighton in May of this year, 2012, leading a MasterClass on McDonaldization and the study of consumption, and giving a public lecture, on Tuesday 22^nd May 2012. He will also present the University of Brighton’s Annual Social Science Lecture (within the programme of the Brighton Festival Fringe) on the evening of Wednesday 23^rd May 2012, at the Falmer Campus.

The public lecture, entitled ‘Is consumption the answer? Some sociological reflections on the current global economic situation’. After the lecture, a reception will be held to mark publication of Professor Ritzer’s latest edition of McDonaldization; and to launch his new book the (Blackwell) Encyclopedia of Globalization.

Those attending the MasterClass must have read at least the sources specified by Professor Ritzer himself (see details below). It will be framed as a dialogue with Professor Ritzer, and so participants must be familiar with at least these allocated readings, so that they can make informed responses to his work and his theories.

THE CHELSEA SCHOOL OF SPORT PRESENTS THE ANNUAL SPORT JOURNALISM LECTURE

THE POWER OF RESISTANCE

By John Carlos with Dave Zirin

Chelsea School of Sport is proud and honoured to welcome John Carlos in conversation with award-winning American sportswriter Dave Zirin.

In Mexico City on 16 October 1968, Carlos won the Olympic 200m bronze medal behind fellow American Tommie Smith. Their “Black Power” salute is still one of sport’s most striking images – powerful and indelible, it was the moment the pretence that politics and sport could be separate ended. Still an activist, Carlos turned up at Occupy Wall Street last October, hoisting that fabled fist. “We’re here 43 years later because there’s a fight still to be won. This day is not for us but for our children to come.”

6 p.m. May 16^th 2012 H129 Lecture Theatre, Eastbourne

Sport and the ‘Big Society’

The Chelsea School of Sport hosted a one day workshop on Sport and the ‘Big Society’ on 16 December 2011. With speakers drawn from academia, think tanks and local government, the workshop reflected upon the meanings of the ‘Big Society’ and its relation to sport and enquired into other policy sectors and whether they could learn from sport's response to current policy changes in a time of austerity. The presentations covered aspects such as volunteering, community development, social innovation, leisure, social capital, localism, citizenship and fan activism. The symposium did not generate a consensual definition of 'Big Society', though several working definitions were offered, but it certainly offered a valuable exchange of current knowledge of the impacts, innovations and responses to the 'Big Society' being felt throughout the UK in the sport policy community at various levels.

The workshop held was organised by Dr Paul Gilchrist, co-convenor of the Political Studies Association’s Sport and Politics Study Group. It was kindly supported by an award from the PSA’s specialist activities competition. A fuller report is available from www.sportpolitics.net/20.html.

2011

Date	Speaker	Title
22^nd November	Dr Thomas F. Carter (Chelsea School of Sport)	The politics of international sport migration
18^th October	Dr Nigel Jarvis (School of Service Management)	The politics of heterosexual men’s participation in gay sport clubs and events
5^th April	Anat Bardi (Royal Holloway University)	Values in conflict resolution
22^nd March	Daniel Burdsey	Race and the seaside
8^th March	Laura Kelly (Durham University)	Probing the ‘evidence gap’: exploring practitioner beliefs about the social benefits of sport
4^th March*	Lee Romer and Stuart Goodall (Brunel University)	Determinants of endurance performance in normoxia and hypoxia
15^th February	Lincoln Allison (Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick)	Neville Cardus and sports writing

Annual Sports Journalism Lecture 2011 by Jacquie Oatley

Jacqueline "Jacqui" Oatley is a British sports broadcaster for BBC Sport, reporting and commentating mostly on football. She is best known for being the first female commentator on Match of the Day. She is an FA qualified football coach. Oatley decided to retrain as a journalist, studying print journalism and radio production at evening classes while broadcasting on hospital radio. She then gave up her job and flat, spent a summer sleeping on friends' floors whilst doing work experience full time. She undertook a Postgraduate Diploma (PgD) in Broadcast Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. While studying she joined BBC Radio Leeds as a sports reporter, continuing to work there after graduation. Her first commentary was on a match between Wakefield & Emley versus Worksop Town in the Unibond League.

Oatley also worked as a news reporter in her native West Midlands with BBC WM, before moving back to London to work as a sports reporter for BBC London 94.9. She joined BBC Radio Five Live in 2003 and became the first woman to commentate on a football match on British network radio in 2005, covering the England women’s internationals at the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship. Her subsequent interview with UEFA President Lennart Johansson became an international news story due to his controversial comments on women’s football.

Oatley became the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day, with her debut broadcast on 21 April 2007 for the Premier League match between Fulham F.C. and Blackburn Rovers F.C. She has since commentated on several further games for Match of the Day. She was the Austria-based reporter for BBC Television at Euro 2008, reported and commentated at the Women's World Cup in China in 2007 and presented and commentated on a television show Level Up during the World Cup in Germany in 2006. She commentated on live football matches for BBC Television during the Beijing Olympics. In September 2009, she commentated on the Euro 2009 final between Germany and England.

Oatley is a reporter on Football Focus, The Football League Show on BBC One. She has presented the sports news on BBC Radio One, BBC Radio Two and BBC Radio Four, as well as more frequently on Radio Five Live. She has reported from the World Snooker Championship, British Moto GP and Open Championship golf and has also covered sports such as tennis and rugby league, and also presented sports news on the BBC News Channel.

2010

Date	Speaker	Title
30^th November	Ian McDonald	Critiquing sport: making political interventions through the sports documentary
16^th November	Mark Falcous (University of Otago)	White is the new black? The 2010 ‘football frenzy’ and the New Zealand imagination
13^th October	Holly Thorpe (University of Waikato)	Research and reflections from a departing Leverhulme Fellow
17^th May	Holly Thorpe (University of Waikato)	Transnational youth cultures: travel, lifestyle and extreme sport
16^th February	Lincoln Allison (Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick)	Rugby School and modern sport: myths and realities
18^th January	Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside)	‘The terrible twins’: sport and television

Annual Sports Journalism Lecture 2010 by Henry Winter

Henry Winter is an English sports journalist, currently football correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and attended Westminster School and Edinburgh University. After graduation, he spent a year producing a magazine on sport in London. He then joined the Independent newspaper at its launch, writing a sports and schools column. He moved to the Daily Telegraph in 1994 and during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, he gave a daily webcast on the World Cup in general, with specific information on the England team. Winter often takes part in television discussions, including Sky Sports Sunday Supplement, and radio including BBC Radio 5 Live.

Winter formerly wrote a column for Four Four Two magazine. He ghost-wrote the autobiographies of Liverpool FC players Kenny Dalglish, John Barnes and Steven Gerrard, as well as also co-writing the book FA Confidential with former FA Chief Executive David Davies.

2009

Date	Speaker	Title
7^th December	Cornell Sandvoss (Surrey University)	‘Reluctant civic engagement?’: Football fan forums as alterative public sphere
16^th November	Liz Pike (Chichester University)	The celebration, degeneration and denigration of sports’ frail bodies
23rd March	John Hughson (UCLAN)	The aesthetic significance of Olympic posters to the 'cultural Olympiad'
16th March	Jon Mitchell (Sussex)	Performance of charity: running between Paula and a panda at the Flora London Marathon
19th February	Jacco van Sterkenburg (Utrecht)	Black genes and white brains: constructions of race and ethnicity in the Dutch soccer media
16th February	Lincoln Allison (Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick)	Theories of the political economy of sport

The BSA Sociology of Sport Study Group Postgraduate Forum

4^th September 2009

The 2009 Postgraduate Forum of the BSA Sport Study Group included papers on a range of sport related topics. Postgraduate researchers presented on issues such as Muslim women's sport participation, nationalism (and the tensions between Englishness and Britishness in particular), as well as issues of aging, disability and gender in sport. The programme also included a presentation from Prof. John Sugden who spoke in his capacity as editor of the International Review of the Sociology of Sport about the publication process and the common mistakes made by early career researchers. Additionally, Dr. Elizabeth Pike (General Secretary of the International Sociology of Sport Association) spoke about the benefits of membership of regional and international associations, including networking opportunities, access to mentor programmes and student awards.

2008

Date	Speaker	Title
17^th November	Daniel Burdsey	The experience of British Asian players in contemporary English professional county cricket: ethnicity, identity, racism
20^th October	John Sugden	Pragmatic realism and human rights: an approach to sports intervention in divided societies
14^th May	Jo Doust	Urban walking schemes to increase participation: initial results from an evaluation scheme of the Rambler's Association Get Walking Keep Walking scheme in Birmingham, London, Manchester and Sheffield
12^th May	John Sugden	Spectacle, surveillance and security: directions for sport research
7^th May	Louisa Beale	BASES health
30^th April	Rob Harley	Selling your scientific expertise
28^th April	Graham McFee	Epistemology and ethics in qualitative sport research
23^rd April	Jo Doust and Peter Watt	Is publishing research part of the scientific process?
9^th April	Jeanne Dekerle	How does the SRM bike work and how to use it?
26^th March	Jeanne Dekerle	EMG changes throughout a 90s all-out test
19^th March	Kerry McGawley	Results from a training study
12^th March	Nick Wilkinson	Deceptive football penalty kicks enhance your confidence but not your accuracy
10^th March	Kath Browne	‘It’s like an orgasm, you got to have your own’: creating womyn’s separatist festival spaces
3^rd March	Sharon Wray (Huddersfield)	Exerciser, health and well-being: the experiences of midlife women from diverse ethnic backgrounds
20^th February	Paul Castle (Beds)	Heat stress proteins during heat acclimation and precooling
18^th February	Helen Pussard (Roehampton)	‘Mass bathing is no mere passing vogue’: the lido movement in twentieth-century England
6^th February	Paul Castle (Beds)	Deception of a task can improve your performance
30^th January	Helen Carter	Development of a web-based coaching service
16^th January	Louisa Beale	Transfer from MPhil to PhD; designing a training study for chronic heart failure patients
9^th January	Jeanne Dekerle	Hypoxia study

Annual Sports Journalism Lecture 2008 by Hugh McIlvanney

Hugh McIlvanney is an award-winning, Scottish sports writer who currently holds a long-running column on the back page of The Sunday Times sports section.

He left Kilmarnock Academy to work at The Kilmarnock Standard as a reporter moving on to The Daily Express, The Scotsman, The Observer, Daily Express and The Sunday Times. In 1996 he was awarded the OBE, was given the Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 by The Scottish Press Awards, and is the only sports writer to be voted Journalist of the Year.

In December 2008 he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and he was inducted in 1999.

2007

Date	Speaker	Title
12^th December	Helen Carter	Development of a web-based coaching service
5^th December	Gary Brickley	Making Paralympic World Champions
3^rd December	Holly Thorpe (University of Waikato)	Boarders, babes and bad-asses: theories of a female physical youth culture
28^th November	Rob Harley	Talent identification in football - experiences from the Football in India Project
26^th November	Tom Carter	On ‘transnationalism’ and developing international research
21^st November	Louisa Beale	Intermittent exercise in chronic heart failure rehabilitation
14^th November	Jo Doust	Assessing the quality of scientific evidence
12^th November	Paul Gilchrist and Neil Ravenscroft	Towards a working society of leisure?
7^th November	Paul Ford	Athlete development
31^st October	Richard Castle	You have a question in stat? Here is the answer!
24^th October	Patrick Cangley	Does internal work exist in cycling?
17^th October	Alan Richardson	Xtreme Everest
15^th October	Dan Burdsey	Good old Sussex by the sea? Whiteness and the racialization of leisure spaces on the East Sussex coast
10^th October	Jeanne Dekerle	Answering to a simple question is not that simple! An example from a study conducted in swimming
8^th October	John Sugden	Sport and spies
19^th March	Tom Carter	Cuban baseball in foreign fields: state controls and transnational migration
12^th March	Mike Collins (Loughborough), Jack Wilkinson and Marc Keech	The history of the Sports Council
19^th February	All	Post-‘Power Games’ debate
5^th February	Dan Burdsey	Race, space and identity on the East Sussex coast: a research proposal

2006

Date	Speaker	Title
4^th December	Jayne Caudwell	Queer theory, crip theory and ‘compulsory able bodiedness’
27^th November	Belinda Wheaton	Re-(en)visioning lifestyle sport: South Africa, street kids and skateboarding
20^th November	Adam Brown, Gavin Mellor, Tim Crabbe (Substance)	Football and its communities
23^rd October	Ian McDonald	The sociology of sport: critical, radical or Marxist?
15^th May	Graham McFee	Paradigms and possibilities: some concerns for the study of sport from the philosophy of science
8^th May	Mark Perryman	Ingerland: travels with a football nation
24^th April	Charles Pigeassou (University of Montpellier)	Body Culture and the individual: observations from an ethnographic study of a fitness suite
20^th March	Neil Ravenscroft and Paul Gilchrist	Power to the paddlers! Hegemony, protest and collective action
20^th February	Lincoln Allison (Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick)	The political economy of sport: conceptual problems and regulatory dilemmas

2005

Date	Speaker	Title
14^th November	Deborah Stephenson and David Rowe (University of Newcastle, Aus.)	Explorations of ‘event ecology’: the case of the International Gay Games
7^th November	Kate Oakley	The cultural fix: New Labour, creativity and the poor
24^th October	Ken Roberts (Liverpool)	Explaining Leisure: right tracks and false trails
3^rd October	Wray Vamplew (Stirling)	Successful workers or exploited labour? Golf professional and professional golfers in Britain 1888-1914
4^th March	Mark Bhatti	The hoover in the garden: leisure outdoors
19^th February	Lincoln Allison (Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick)	Drugs in sport: ethical and regulatory dilemmas
12^th February	Jeff Fernandez	Racial stereotyping and exclusion of British Asians from professional football: A case study of Leyton Orient FC
19^th January	Andy Theodoulides	Moral discourse in physical education: teachers’ intentions and pupils’ learning

Annual Sports Journalism Lecture 2007 by Kevin Mitchell

The Observer's Mitchell delivers Annual Sport Journalism Lecture Kevin Mitchell, chief sportswriter of The Observer, delivered the fourth Annual Sport Journalism Lecture with an eye firmly on the future facing Sport Journalism students. Fresh from a meeting of Observer and Guardian staff the previous day, Mitchell brought the ever-changing world of journalism to the Chelsea School lecture theatre as he reflected on the challenges in store for the next generation of journalists, a generation for whom writing and subbing their own stories, blogging and podcasting will all be part of the daily newspaper diet.

He echoed the sentiments of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, who, while acknowledging that a "24/7" news operation was now obligatory for national newspapers, had emphasised to staff that readers still expected measured responses rather than rushed judgements. Mitchell stressed that he disagreed with his erstwhile colleague, Independent editor Simon Kelner, who believes that newspapers should now be "viewspapers". Mitchell offered plenty of encouragement to students, highlighting the way in which the web had made a vast range of entry possibilities available to young journalists while underlining that the national press still represents the pinnacle of the profession.

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