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We are very happy to welcome Dominic Malcolm to the 2011 Sports Conference.
Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. Formerly co-editor of the journal Soccer and Society, he is the current Convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sport Study Group. He is editor of Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology (Routledge, 2003) and author of The Sage Dictionary of Sport Studies (Sage, 2008) and Sport and Sociology (Routledge, forthcoming).
His primary research interests are healthcare in elite sport, and cricket and social relations. With respect to the former he has published articles about the management of pain and injury in rugby union, the social construction of injury diagnoses and inter-professional relations among and between healthcare workers. He is currently editing The social organization of sports medicine (Routledge) with Parissa Safai.
His cricket research spans the historical origins of the game and its diffusion to the Caribbean and America, changes to fan engagement with the game and in particular changing notions of English national identity, race relations and the British game, and postcolonial relations. He is currently writing Cricket: Codification, Colonisation and Contemporary Identities (Bloomsbury).
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