News Archive

2009

Members of the group presented a special panel at the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, hosted at Liverpool Hope University on 9-10 October 2009.

The group hosted a panel on 'the governance and regulation of sport' at the PSA annual conference, Manchester, in April 2009.

The group held its 3rd annual conference at Birkbeck College, London, 20-21 February 2009. The theme of the conference was 'The governance and regulation of sport'. Full conference report.

2008

The group co-sponsorsed the 'Popular culture and (world) politics' workshop at the University of Bristol, 11-12 September 2008. Download the programme.

The group held its 2nd annual conference at Liverpool Hope University on 15th February 2008. Click here for more details.

The group hosted a panel on 'Sporting governance and investment opportunity' at the PSA annual conference on 1 April 2008, Swansea University. Click here for the report.

A new journal is being launched which should be of interest to sport politicians: The International Journal of Sport Policy. This is edited by Barrie Houlihan (Loughborough University) and Andy Smith and Daniel Bloyce (University of Chester), all of whom have been active with the group since its inception.

2007

Publication. A special issue of the Taylor & Francis journal Sport in Society is to appear in mid-2009 with contributions from the Group's inaugural conference. The provisional title is: 'The politics of sport: community, mobility and identity'.

The group held its inaugural conference in February 2007.

Photo (Left to right: Robert Croft (Cricketer, Glamorgan and ex-England) Matthew Engel (Editor of Wisden), Russell Holden (Group convenor)).



The report of the inaugural conference has been published on Sports Forum Idrottsforum [The Nordic Sport Science web journal] and is featured in the Political Studies Association newsletter.