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Beyond the beautiful game (2024)
Book Chapter

Football has always been rooted in working-class culture and celebrated within working-class communities. Criticism of today’s game typically focuses on the capitalisation of some leagues, and football’s growing distance from its own roots. Yet, it r... Read More about Beyond the beautiful game.

Class Action (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

People with a working-class heritage can face deeply entrenched normative and attitudinal barriers in and through education. Yet, they remain a comparatively overlooked social group in academic studies, even with those employing intersectional analys... Read More about Class Action.

Unintended volunteers: The volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport (2016)
Journal Article

Sport has become a major setting for youth volunteering in the UK. Volunteering has become understood as a means of enhancing responsible citizenship and of adding various capitals to young people’s identities. Much research on young people’s volunte... Read More about Unintended volunteers: The volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport.