University of Brighton

Faculty Member, Chelsea School

Other Affiliations: University of Brighton, School of Environment and Technology

Research Fellow

About

Paul obtained a BA(Hons) Politics (first class) (University of Warwick, 2001), MA Sport, Politics and Society (with distinction) (University of Warwick, 2002) and a PhD in cultural history (University of Brighton, 2009).

Paul has undertaken research and consultancy projects for a range of government agencies, including Defra, Sport England, SEEDA, Culture South East, Sussex Learning and Skills Council, Sussex Skills for Productivity Alliance, the Countryside Agency and the Environment Agency. These projects have contributed to national policy development in the areas of recreational access, water sport, and workforce development in the creative and cultural sectors.

Research findings and thoughts have appeared in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including: Leisure Studies; Journal of Leisure Research; Media, Culture & Society; Sport in History; Society & Natural Resources, as well as specialist magazines and edited monographs. He is joint editor (with Dr Belinda Wheaton) of Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? (LSA, 2008) and co-editor of a special issue of Sport in Society entitled 'The politics of sport: community, mobility, identity' (2011). He was recently awarded a PhD for his thesis, 'The cultural politics of heroism in British mountaineering, 1921-1995'.

Paul is a founder and co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Sport and Politics group and is active in the academic community, having co-organised the Leisure Studies Association annual conference (2007) and the British Society of Sport History annual conference (2008).

He is currently researching the institutionalisation of parkour; the politics of recreational access; heroism in mountaineering; and theorisations of leisure politics.

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