Sport Cluster
Sport in Transition
The sport cluster is a multi-disciplinary project in which sport is problematised through a number of specific theoretical and applied lenses. The project both highlights and focuses strands of inquiry that are integral to develop knowledge and potential transfer opportunities at both the academic and practitioner level. Cluster members are concerned about interrogating how sport and sport practices can be known and the extent to which this knowledge can be transferred to sites of sport practice. The cluster comprises for distinct strands: football research, sport policy, sport and development and sport law.
The work and outputs of the research cluster aims to support the development of the School of Sport, Tourism and Languages in three key ways. Firstly by supporting the subject area and credibility of the new MA Sport and Development. Secondly by providing vital links to industry enabling a clearer and more strategic focus on central issues such as employability. Thirdly in providing a progressive framework for the mentoring of early and returning career researchers to develop both their skills and attributes in a supportive context.
There is thus an existing credibility to this research cluster; a credibility that its projects should extend to local and national partners outside of the University.