Publication record
Published work
Books, peer-reviewed articles, features, chapters and public reports spanning psychoanalysis, digital media, race, nationalism, ecology and sport.
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Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Co-edited with Joseph S. Reynoso. Lexington Books.
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The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
Routledge.
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Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments
Co-edited with Jim Cherrington. Routledge.
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Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Routledge.
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The Game’s Gone: Why Football is Always Dying
Jack Black (2026). ‘The Game’s Gone: Why Football is Always Dying’. idrottsforum.org, 2 October.
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Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup: The Politics of World Cup Enjoyment
Jack Black (2026). ‘Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup: The Politics of World Cup Enjoyment’. World Cup Analysis 2026: Mega Events, Media, and the Politics of Sport.
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Online Abuse and the Challenges Faced by Sports Journalists in the UK and Ireland
Jack Black and Gary Sinclair (2024). ‘Online Abuse and the Challenges Faced by Sports Journalists in the UK and Ireland’. Hold the Front Page, 25 November.
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How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories
Jack Black, Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair, Mark Doidge, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Theo Lynn and Pierangelo Rosati (2023). ‘How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories’. LSE British Politics and Policy, 14 December.
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What Manchester City fans have to say about sportswashing
Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair and Jack Black (2023). ‘What Manchester City fans have to say about sportswashing’. RTÉ Brainstorm, 27 November.
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What the Research Says: Confronting Online Hate in Sport
Jack Black, Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair, Mark Doidge, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston and Theo Lynn (2023). ‘What the Research Says: Confronting Online Hate in Sport’. TOHIF Blog, 27 October.
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‘Peace at Last’: Subjective Destitution and the End of Analysis in Peaky Blinders
Jack Black (2022). ‘Peace at Last: Subjective Destitution and the End of Analysis in Peaky Blinders’. LACK: Punctual Musings, 17 June.
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Suburban Superheroes: Utopia and Trauma in WandaVision
Jack Black (2021). ‘Suburban Superheroes: Utopia and Trauma in WandaVision’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 26 February.
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Devs and the Parallax Ending
Jack Black (2020). ‘Devs and the Parallax Ending’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 8 May.
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Mr. Robot – Part Three: ‘…the voyeurs who think they aren’t a part of this…’: Mr. Robot and the Subject
Jack Black (2020). ‘Mr. Robot – Part Three: …the voyeurs who think they aren’t a part of this…: Mr. Robot and the Subject’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 6 March.
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Mr. Robot – Part Two: ‘Run Away with Me’ – Content, Form and Romantic Failure, an Ideological Critique (Scene Analysis)
Jack Black (2020). ‘Mr. Robot – Part Two: Run Away with Me – Content, Form and Romantic Failure, an Ideological Critique (Scene Analysis)’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 28 February.
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Mr. Robot – Part One: ‘Our Democracy has been hacked’ – Critiquing Mr. Robot
Jack Black (2020). ‘Mr. Robot – Part One: Our Democracy has been hacked – Critiquing Mr. Robot’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 21 February.
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From Fight Club to Gaze – Making Sense of Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot
Jack Black (2020). ‘From Fight Club to Gaze – Making Sense of Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 7 February.
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Watchmen’s Parallax View – Handling Past Traumas and Present Tensions
Jack Black (2020). ‘Watchmen’s Parallax View – Handling Past Traumas and Present Tensions’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 17 January.
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Sport and the push for ‘Empire 2.0’: the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the media
Stuart Whigham and Jack Black (2018). ‘Sport and the push for Empire 2.0: the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the media’. LSE Brexit, 1 August.
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How Do Football Fans Experience Online Abuse? Impacts, Responses and Implications
With Colm Kearns et al. Leisure Studies.
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The Ethics of Outrage: Holocaust Memory and the Case of Gary Lineker
With Theo Lynn. Holocaust Studies.
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When a Foul Is Not a Foul: Strategic Fouling and the Creativity of Self-Limitation
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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Exploring Online Sexism and Misogyny in Women’s Professional English Football
With Daniel Kilvington et al. Soccer and Society 27(2–3), 705–719.
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Paranoia, Delusion, and Doubt: A Lacanian Analysis of Race, Hip-Hop, and Kendrick Lamar
Howard Journal of Communications 37(4), 1076–1094.
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#JewGoal: Llanguage, Enjoyment, and the Persistence of Antisemitism in Online Gaming and Sports Communities
With Theo Lynn, Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusué and Daniel Kilvington. New Media and Society 28(9), 4963–4981.
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Revisiting the Sport Ethic: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Sport’s Contradictions
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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Haunted Spaces and Unsettling Predicaments: An Interrogation of (Capitalist) Sport via the Work of Mark Fisher
With Jim Cherrington and Samuel M. Clevenger. European Journal of Cultural Studies 29(4), 687–706.
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#SeAcabó: How a Mass-Mediated ‘Social Drama’ Made Visible and Confronted (Subjective and Objective) Violence in Women’s Football in Spain
With Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusué et al. Feminist Media Studies 26(4), 1105–1122.
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The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention
With Jacob Johanssen. Theory, Culture and Society 43(2), 59–76.
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The Violence of Online Hate: Cultivating Antagonism through Subjective and Objective Violence
The Communication Review 29(1), 72–97.
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What Does It Mean to Psychoanalyse Sport? Reflections from the Field
With Joseph S. Reynoso et al. Cogent Social Sciences: Sport and Psychoanalysis 11(1).
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From Local Fields to Global Spectacles: Sport in the Shadow of the Anthropocene
With Jim Cherrington, Billy Graeff, Brendan Hokowhitu and Holly Thorpe. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 60(8), 1553–1569.
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Sport and the Anthropocene
With Jim Cherrington. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 60(8), 1417–1427.
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Exploring the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Sport: An Introduction to Sport and Psychoanalysis
With Joseph S. Reynoso. Cogent Social Sciences: Sport and Psychoanalysis 11(1), 1–6.
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Examining the Mechanism of Disavowal and Its Two Forms: Cynical Disavowal and Fetishistic Disavowal
Theory and Psychology 35(1), 117–135.
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Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
With Gary Sinclair et al. Journalism Studies 26(1), 101–119.
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Can AI Lie? Chatbot Technologies, the Subject, and the Importance of Lying
Social Science Computer Review 43(6), 1147–1158.
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The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing
With Colm Kearns and Gary Sinclair. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 48(3–4), 145–164.
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‘[K]neeling Only Goes to Highlight Your Ignorance’: Aversive Racism, Colour-Blindness, and Racist Temporalities in Discussions of Football Online
With Mark Doidge et al. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(20), 5067–5084.
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‘Let the Tournament for the Woke Begin!’: Euro 2020 and Cultural Marxist Conspiracies in Criticisms of ‘Take the Knee’
With Thomas Fletcher et al. Ethnic and Racial Studies 47(10), 2036–2059.
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Just a Game? Sport and Psychoanalytic Theory
With Joseph S. Reynoso. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 29(2), 145–159.
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‘Best Run Club in the World’: Manchester City Fans and the Legitimation of Sportswashing?
With Colm Kearns et al. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 59(4), 479–501.
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Success in Failure: From the Destruction of the Tragic to the Self-Negation of the Comic
Crisis and Critique 10(2), 30–54.
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The Dialectic of Desire: AI Chatbots and the Desire Not to Know
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 28(4), 607–618.
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A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport
With Colm Kearns et al. Communication and Sport 11(2), 1–29.
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The Electric Mountain Bike as Pharmakon: Problems and Possibilities of an Emerging Technology
With Jim Cherrington. Mobilities 18(6), 1000–1015.
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‘Love Thy Social Media!’: Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 24(4), 1–10.
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Posthuman to Inhuman: mHealth Technologies and the Digital Health Assemblage
With Jim Cherrington. Theory and Event 25(4), 726–750.
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A Hole That Does Not Speak: Covid, Catastrophe and the Impossible
Philosophy World Democracy, 28 May.
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An Unnerving Otherness: English Nationalism and Rusedski’s Smile
With Robert J. Lake and Thomas Fletcher. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 26(4), 452–472.
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Slipping on Banana Skins and Falling Through Bars: ‘True’ Comedy and the Comic Character
Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 3(3), 110–121.
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Sport and the ‘National Thing’: Exploring Sport’s Emotive Significance
Sport in Society 24(11), 1956–1970.
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Temporal Ontology in Ecology: Developing an Ecological Awareness through Time, Temporality and the Past-Present Parallax
With Jim Cherrington. Environmental Philosophy 18(1), 41–63.
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‘A Form of Socially Acceptable Insanity’: Love, Comedy and the Digital in Her
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 26(1), 25–45.
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Retroactive Causation and the Temporal Construction of News
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 22(1), 44–59.
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Football Is ‘the Most Important of the Least Important Things’: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19
Leisure Sciences 43(1–2), 97–103.
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On Reflexive Racism: Disavowal, Deferment and the Lacanian Subject
Diacritics 48(4), 76–101.
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COVID-19: Approaching the In-Human
Contours: Journal of the SFU Humanities 10, 1–10.
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‘I Am (Big) M(Other)’: Lacan’s Big Other and Cynicism in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother
Free Associations 80, 121–131.
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‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media Representations at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014
With Stuart Whigham. Journalism 21(10), 1450–1467.
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Reflexivity or Orientation? Collective Memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand National Press
Memory Studies 13(4), 519–536.
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COVID-19 and the Real Impossible
International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(2), 1–22.
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‘Success in Britain Comes with an Awful Lot of Small Print’: Greg Rusedski and National Identity
With Thomas Fletcher and Robert J. Lake. Nations and Nationalism 20(4), 1104–1123.
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‘Nature Doesn’t Care That We’re There’: Re-Symbolizing Nature’s ‘Natural’ Contingency
With Jim Cherrington. International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(1), 1–26.
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‘Running Away from the Taskscape’: Ultramarathon Running as ‘Dark Ecology’
With Jim Cherrington and Nicholas Tiller. Annals of Leisure Research 23(2), 243–263.
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Mountain Bike Trail Building, ‘Dirty’ Work and a New Terrestrial Politics
With Jim Cherrington. World Futures 76(1), 39–61.
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London 2012, Glasgow 2014 and Athletes as Political Symbols
With Stuart Whigham. European Journal for Sport and Society 17(1), 47–65.
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Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage
With Jim Cherrington. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure 3(1), 71–93.
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‘You Ain’t Gonna Get Away Wit’ This, Django’: Fantasy, Fiction and Subversion in Django Unchained
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 36(7), 611–637.
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Conviviality and Parallax in David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History
European Journal of Cultural Studies 22(5–6), 979–996.
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Re-establishing the ‘Outsiders’: English Press Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup
With Beth Fielding-Lloyd. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54(3), 282–301.
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From Mood to Movement: English Nationalism, the European Union and Taking Back Control
Innovation 32(2), 191–210.
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The Subjective and Objective Violence of Terrorism: ‘British Values’ and the 2017 London Bridge Attack
Critical Studies in Terrorism 12(2), 228–249.
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The United Kingdom and British Empire: A Figurational Approach
Rethinking History 22(1), 3–24.
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Glasgow 2014, the Media and Scottish Politics
With Stuart Whigham. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20(2), 360–378.
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The Reification of Celebrity: Global Newspaper Coverage of the Death of David Bowie
International Review of Sociology 27(1), 202–224.
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Celebrating British Multiculturalism, Lamenting England/Britain’s Past
Nations and Nationalism 22(4), 786–802.
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‘As British as Fish and Chips’: Newspaper Representations of Mo Farah during London 2012
Media, Culture and Society 38(7), 979–996.
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‘The Day the Flame Came to Town’: The Olympic Flame, Symbol, Community and Commodification
With Joseph Maguire and Beth Darlington. Sociology of Sport Journal 32(2), 117–139.
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Exploring Online Sexism and Misogyny in Women’s Professional English Football
Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Thomas Fletcher, Jack Black, Theo Lynn, Gary Sinclair, Colm Kearns and Mark Doidge (2026). ‘Exploring Online Sexism and Misogyny in Women’s Professional English Football’. In It's Women's Time in Soccer!: Fandom, Digitality and the Feminine Game, edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay. Routledge.
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Social Media and Online Hate in Sport: A Case Study of Association Football
With Thomas Fletcher et al. In Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media. Routledge.
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Play, Sport, and the Creativity of Sublimation
In Sport and Psychoanalysis. Lexington Books.
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Introduction: Sport—A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
With Joseph S. Reynoso. In Sport and Psychoanalysis. Lexington Books.
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A Critical Analysis of Campaigns to Challenge Online Racism in English Professional Football
With Daniel Kilvington et al. In Hate Crime in Football. Policy Press.
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Desire, Drive and the Melancholy of English Football: ‘It’s (Not) Coming Home’
In Critical Issues in Football. Routledge, 53–65.
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Introduction: Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments
With Jim Cherrington. In Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. Routledge, 1–18.
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The Appearance of Authority in Health and Wellbeing Media
In Critical Perspectives on Internet Celebrity Culture. Routledge, 35–51.
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Football Is ‘the Most Important of the Least Important Things’
In Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus. Routledge.
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Community as Hyperobject: Exploring the ‘Spectral Plains’ of Leisure
With Jim Cherrington. In Leisure and Its Communities. Routledge.
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Portraying Britain’s Past: Newspaper Coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Ceremonies
In The London Olympics and Urban Development. Routledge, 320–334.
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Online Abuse in Sport
With Gary Sinclair et al. United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council.
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Football and the Problem of Online Hate
With Katie Liston et al. Tackling Online Hate in Football.
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The Sports Media, Online Harms and Response(s) to It
With Daniel Kilvington et al. Report for Sky Sports News.
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Major Cultural and Sporting Events Inquiry
With Alan Bairner, Alexandra Bowes and Stuart Whigham. Evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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Teaching and Learning Issues in the Disciplines: Sociology
With Christopher R. Matthews and Alex Channon. Higher Education Authority.
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