Background

Paul has been lecturer of sports management in the School of Sport since 2009 following positions at London Metropolitan University and University of East London. He is a graduate of University of Tasmania (1998) and Deakin University (2002) in Australia and Loughborough University, England (2014), where he completed his PhD investigating organisational change in para-sport.

His research examines sport and social justice.  One element examines how management facilitates the discrimination of disabled people in and through sport and the second element examines the nexus between sport business and gambling.

Currently, Paul is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, the International Journal of Sports Management and Marketing and as Associate Editor for  Managing Sport & Leisure.

Paul leads the sport management curricula on the MSc Sport Management programme, and has a particular interest in the management and marketing of sport organisations.  He has worked with a number of universities in the UK and Ireland as an external examiner and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research interests:

• Accessibility and sport/sport facilities
• Capacity building/mobilising capacity
• Disability sport and mainstreaming/integration
• Sports marketing, gambling and young people

Module Coordinator:

• SLS107 Managing and Leading People in Football
• SLS314 The Politics of Sport
• SLS545 Sport Strategy and Business Management
• SLS711 Strategic Sports Marketing
• SLS712 Sport, Management and the Law
• SLS719 Research Project Preparation