Mark Turner

Mark is a former youth player for Wigan Athletic and was a member of their centre of excellence before being offered a full time YTS in 1997. Mark is also a season ticket holder for Manchester City Football Club. As such, his research and teaching are very much underpinned by knowledge and experience of the game both as a player and spectator.

Mark is currently studying for his PhD. This project aims to explore the sociology of social movements and fan activism/mobilisation in English football with specific focus on the Safe Standing campaign. The PhD is supervised by Dr Peter Millward. Additionally, Mark's expertise focuses on the changing social, cultural and political significance of football goal celebrations and the virtual spaces and places at which football fans are now interacting.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Turner, M. (2015) 'Modern English Football Fandom and Hyperreal, ‘Safe’, ‘All-seater’ Stadia: Examining the Contemporary Football Stage, Soccer and Society'.

Turner, M. (2013) 'From local heroism to global celebrity stardom: a critical reflection on the social, cultural and political changes in British football culture from the 1950's to the formation of the Premier League'. Soccer and Society. In Press.

Turner, M. (2013) 'Modern 'live' football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque'. Sport in Society. 16. (1). pp. 85-93.

Turner, M. (2012) 'From 'pats on the back' to 'dummy sucking': a critique of the changing social, cultural and political significance of football goal celebrations'. Soccer and Society. 13. (1). 1-18.

Book chapters

Turner, M. (2014) 'Football Fandom in Late Modernity: Alternative Spaces and Places of Consumption', in Fletcher, T., Dashper, K. and McCullough, N. (Eds.) Sports Events, Society and Culture. Taylor and Francis: Oxford

Turner, M. (2013) 'English Football Goal Celebrations within a Global Context' in Waine, A and Naglo, K (Eds.) On and off the field: Football culture in England and Germany. Berlin: Springer.

Online Publications

Turner, M. (2014) The pageantry, performance and publicity of goal celebrations, in the Conversation.

Turner, M. (2014) #WorldCup: tweeting football fans change the nature of the game, in the Conversation. 

Conferences

Turner, M. (2016) Investigating the new fan movement to permit standing at football in England and Wales, Paper presented at the World Congress for the Sociology of Sport, International Sociology of Sport Association, Budapest, Hungary.

Turner, M (2016)Examining the new fan movement to permit standing at football in England and Wales, Paper presented at the 13th European Association for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. Candidate:

Turner, M. (2015) 'Exploring English Football Fan Activism, Mobilisation, and Social Movements post- 1990: A Case Study of the ‘Safe Standing’ Campaign', Paper presented at the 12^th European Association for the Sociology of Sport, Dublin. Ireland.

Turner, M. (2015) 'Fan Activism and Inclusive Social Movements', Paper presented at the Football as Inclusive Leisure Conference, Southampton Solent University. Southampton. England.

Turner, M. (2013) 'From local heroism to global celebrity stardom: a critical reflection on the social, cultural and political changes in British football culture from the 1950's to the formation of the Premier League'. 2nd Global Conference: Sport Probing the Boundaries. Athens. Greece.

Turner, M. (2013) 'Towards a sociology of the football goal celebration'. 10th European Association for the Sociology of Sport Congress. Cordoba. Spain.

Invited conferences and speeches

Turner, M. (2013) 'Football and Postmodern world. Summer Course'. University of Tenerife.

Turner, M. (2013) 'A critique of the changing social, cultural and political significance of football goal celebrations'. Summer Course. University of Tenerife.