Jack Black CV

Academic Appointments

2023-present

Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport, Academy of Sport and Physical Activity & Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

2014-2023 

Senior Lecturer, Academy of Sport and Physical Activity & Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

2014

Lecturer in Sport, Society and Culture, Department of Sport, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

2011-2014

Associate Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

2011-2014

Associate Lecturer in Media and Communication, Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK.

Education

2011-2014

PhD in Sociology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

Thesis Title: ‘“It isn’t easy being a fading post-imperial power”: British and Commonwealth national newspaper constructions of Britain during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games’.

Supervisor: Emeritus Professor Joseph Maguire; External Examiners: Emeritus Professor Stephen Mennell (University College Dublin) and Emeritus Professor John Evans (Loughborough University)

2010-2011

MSc Sociology of Sport, School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

2007-2010

BSc (Hons) Sport Science with Management, School of Sport Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

Teaching Qualifications

2015-2016

PGC Learning and Teaching in HE, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Journal Editor

Associate Editor, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living: The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports

Associate Editor, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

Research Leadership

Research Lead, "Anti-Racism Research Group", Centre for Culture Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Steering Committee Member, Centre for Culture Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Research Seminar Lead, "Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society", Centre for Culture Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK