I am a Senior Lecturer within the School of Sport and Exercise Science. My PhD investigated organisational change on managers, staff, and youth participants in para-sport.  I am interested in how wider health and social outcomes are developed through sport. Topics of relevance to this include;

• Disability
• Sport and Media
• Marketing
• Gambling
• Youth

I am a Senior Fellow of the Advance HE and my teaching and supervision focus is on leadership, management, and justice in and through sport organisations.

Doctoral research supervision:

Current

• Jack Micklewright: E-sports and sustainability (2027) (Supervisor)
• Gerard Walsh: Benchmarking the effectiveness of the sport development system within Gaelic Games (2026) (Supervisor)
• Tunde Adebisi: Football Gambling and Youth in Africa (2025) (Supervisor)
• Sara Douglas: Placing the athlete in the centre: what are Visually-impaired athletes’ experiences of classification, and how can we improve it? (2025) (Supervisor)

Completed

• Erin McEvoy: PhD: Women, Gambling Addictions and Gambling Marketing (2025) (Lead Supervisor)
• Connor Penfold: PhD: The Disabled Supporter as an Activist for Social Inclusion in English Football (completed 2024) (Lead Supervisor)
• Kyle Ferguson: PhD: An analysis of the management process in sport for development projects in Northern Ireland (completed 2021) (Supervisor)
• Marc Mac Sharry: MPhil: A Study of the Political Challenges Associated with the Hosting of an International Cross-Border Sporting Event – Case Study WRC Rally Ireland 2007 (completed 2023) (Supervisor)

External Examiner and External Reviewer roles:

• University of Liverpool: External Examiner - MSc in Sport Business and Management, 2024-current.
• Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Campus: External Examiner – Bachelor in Sport and Recreation Management, 2021-2025.
• PhD, External Examiner, Benjamin Simpson (Loughborough, England) 2024.
• Bournemouth University, Panel Member, 2024. Validation of MSc Sport Business and Leadership, MSc Sport Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and MSc Safe Sport.
• Leeds Beckett University, Panel member, 2023. Revalidation of BA (Hons) Sport Marketing.
• European Association of Sport Management: Awards Committee (2021-ongoing)
• PhD, External Examiner, Yanbing Chen, (UCD, Ireland), 2021.
• PhD, External Examiner, Simone McCarthy (Deakin, Australia), 2021.
• UCFB/UEL, Chair of External Quality Panel, 2020-2021. Validation of 9 UCFB BSc (Hons) courses by UEL.
• Huddersfield University, Panel member, 2020. for BA (hons) Sport & Leisure Management.
• PhD, External Examiner, Aurélie Pankowiak (Victoria University, Australia) 2020.
• PhD, External Examiner, James Joachim (University of Technology Sydney) 2020.
• Viva Chair, Lisa Gordon (MPhil) 2020.
• MPhil, External Examiner, Nicholas Ashley (Edge Hill University, UK),
• U92 Salford, Panel member, 2019. Validation of BA (Hons) Sport Management.
• Viva Chair, Athol Thomson (PhD) 2019.
• PhD, Internal Examiner, John Bustard 2018.
• PhD, Internal Examiner, Liz Carlin 2018.
• PhD, Internal Examiner, Elizabeth Rogers, 2018.
• Brighton University, Panel member, 2017. Revalidation of BSc (Hons) Sport Management.
• PhD, External Examiner, Jonathan Roberston (Victoria University, Australia), 2017.
• PhD, External Examiner, Russell Cowley (Coventry University, UK), 2017.
• Associate Editor – Managing Sport & Leisure, 2016-2021.
• Sligo Institute of Technology: Bachelor of Business: External Examiner – Sport Business, 2016 – 2020.
• PhD, External Examiner, Kenneth Cortsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), 2016.
• Liverpool John Moores University: External Examiner – BSc (Hons) Sport Business, 2015 – 2019.
• Sheffield Hallam University, Panel member, 2014 Validation of MSc Sport Management.
• Editorial Board Member – Managing Sport & Leisure, 2014-current.
• Waterford Institute of Technology: External Examiner – Bachelor of Business: Sport and Recreation Management, 2009 –2012.
• International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship: Deputy Editor (2009-2010)
• London Journal of Tourism, Sport and Creative Industries: Inaugural editor (2008-2011)

• 2025
  • Ulster University, Research Seed Funding. £955
• 2024
  • ESRC, Festival of Social Science: When the Fun Stops. £550.
  • Ulster University, Research Impact Fund. £3,600
• 2022
  • Government of Ireland, North-South Research Programme. €199,962
• 2021
  • ESRC, Festival of Social Science: When the Fun Stops. £500.
  • Ulster University Sustained Education Excellence Award. £1000