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Supervision for your PhD

We welcome approaches for supervision across all areas of sport and leisure culture, with specialisms including:

• equality and inequality in sport and leisure
• exclusion, race and racism in sport and leisure
• sport, migration and refugees
• politics of, in, and surrounding sport
• the politics of movement
• sport, leisure and cultural resistance
• everyday leisure, spaces and practices
• coastal and seaside leisure
• outdoor recreation and environmental politics
• sports fandom and protest including football fandom
• sport, gender and sexuality
• sport, violence and ethics
• sports tourism
• sport and international development
• sports media and journalism
• acculturation
• coach-athlete relationships
• cross-cultural communication.

You will benefit from research supervision comprising two or maximum three members of academic staff. To ensure the right mix of expertise alongside specialists in sport culture, recreation and leisure studies, one of the supervisors might come from the wider university  for example with specialist interests in, psychology, human geography, design, media studies, literature or dress history, or from an external partner representing, for example, a professional body or specific journalistic or cultural experience. 

You will identify your primary potential supervisor for your doctorate in sport and leisure cultures from the early stages of application and they will usually then support you throughout your programme of study, helping you find any additional support to carry out your research, guiding your learning of rigorous research methods and preparing you for the next stage of your career.

You should consider the staff listed at the foot of the page and create a short draft research proposal identifying your suitability for supervision from that person's research specialism. 

Research training and support for PhD sports and leisure culture students

PhD students are provided with supervisors from both within and outside occupational therapy and occupational science and offered a range of developmental opportunities to help challenge and broaden their academic and professional thinking. You will have the opportunity to network with other doctoral students and staff across the university to share ideas and expertise. You will be supported with conference presentation preparation, with research planning and publication activities as well as grant applications and network-building. Whatever the focus of your PhD project, you will be able to draw on research approaches from a variety of related fields.

As a member of the Brighton Doctoral College, you will benefit from regular opportunities on a training programme designed to support postgraduate researchers at all stages of the PhD and help them achieve their career goals. Attendance at appropriate workshops within this programme is encouraged, as is contribution to the various seminar series hosted by the school and the annual Postgraduate Research Festival. Academic and technical staff also provide more subject-specific training.

Postgraduate degree resources for doctoral students in sport and leisure culture

As well as expert and experienced academic staff, you will benefit from access to internationally-linked research resources, including a contemporary range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as the physical book and journal collections housed within campus libraries. The library services are connected to national and international collections and students also have the option of inter-library loans.

Research Excellence Framework (REF)

The 国产吧精品福利 of Brighton had an outstanding performance in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and in the former iterations of the exercise, with researchers who submitted to the Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism unit of assessment having 83 per cent of their submitted research outputs judged to be either world-leading (4*) or internationally-significant (3*). Our  impact case studies have detailed the Football 4 Peace initiative and the protection of coastal and waterway leisure spaces.

By joining us at Brighton for your PhD in sports culture and leisure studies you will be contributing to and building on an environment of research excellence with far-reaching impact.

You and your fellow postgraduate researchers will have the opportunity to attend and present at research seminar sessions, and to integrate with researchers over a range of relevant specialisms. 

PhD students with any overlap into sports culture, sports sociology, leisure studies or recreational culture research take an active role in a range of intellectual and social activities within the Sport and Leisure Cultures Research Excellence Group (REG). You may also find closely aligned researchers in one of the university's wider Centres of Research and Knowledge Exchange Excellence (COREs) or Research Excellence Groups (REGs).

Students of PhD in sports culture and PhD in leisure studies will often have a base with the School of Education, Sport and Health Sciences on the 国产吧精品福利 of Brighton's Falmer Campus where PhD students from a range of sport and health disciplines can meet and exchange ideas. The school brings various opportunities to contribute to the life of our department: consultancy projects, world-leading collaborative research, seminars, journal clubs, engagement within our community and teaching. The Sport and Leisure Cultures REG is also open to anyone with relevant academic interests across the wider university.

Recent doctoral theses supervised by the Sports and Leisure Cultures Research Excellence Group 

We strongly recommend that you apply with the support of one of our academics. By establishing your supervisor from the early stages of application, you will be supported through the application process and can make the best start to your programme of study.

You should consider the staff listed below and create a short draft research proposal identifying your suitability for supervision from that person's research specialism and your place in the wider context of the department's research ambitions. Their contact details are available on their full profile.

Our primary staff supervising in the discipline are listed. For further information on university supervisory staff, including cross-disciplinary options, please visit 

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in all areas related to my research interests in sociological, cultural and geographical analyses of race, ethnicity and popular culture.

PhD students currently working with me are undertaking research on: conflict, protest and resistance around the Hamburg Olympic Games referendum; identities and experiences of mixed-race university students; tourism in post-Communist Romania; Black British contemporary intellectual thought; and women鈥檚 cricket and sport policy in India.

I am open to various subjects, approaches, and methods.聽 I am especially interested in projects emerging out of and develop the Anthropology of Sport and that use ethnography as a principle research methodology. Specific areas of interest include the Sport for Development and Peace sector. Projects could have fieldwork anywhere in the world but I am particularly interested in projects in Latin America and the Global South. Other topics of interest and expertise include global labor and transnational migration in sport, the politics of spectacle and performance, and the sensory ecologies of embodiment, being, and becoming through physical activity.

I am able to supervise doctoral research across the fields of sociology, cultural studies, and politics as they pertain to sport, physical education, fitness, and related fields. However, I am particularly interested in sociological studies of the following specialist topics:

• Martial arts and combat sports
• Sport-related violence
• Risk, injury and medical care in sport
• Consent in sport

I would be interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:

- Geographies of sport and leisure- Playful cities and urban everyday life- Community-supported agriculture / community gardening

I also welcome discussions on other potential topics.

My research and supervisory interests cover Sport and Exercise Psychology, with particular focus on cultural sport psychology (immigrated athletes and coaches, culturally diverse sport teams, acculturation and adaptation in a new environment), as well as athletes' well-being (safeguarding, coach-athlete relationship). I currently lead an international research project on behalf of FEPSAC, which investigates career trajectories of sport psychology graduates in Europe.

I am currently supervising two doctoral candidates. One project focuses on Soft Power and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The other examines resistance to the hosting of Mega Events such as the Olympics. I am interested in supervising doctoral students in areas relating to sociological, cultural, and political aspects of international festivals, events, and spectacles. My particular focus is arts and cultural events for example Burning Man, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and global touring productions, such as U2's 360 tour. I am also interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas relating to leisure events:

• fandom and fan communities
• community and cultural identity
• space and place
• production, consumption, and co-creation of leisure spectacles.