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David Hindley

David Hindley

Principal Lecturer

School of Science & Technology

Staff Group(s)
Sport

Role

Dr David Hindley is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Sport Science. He is responsible for student academic experience within the Department, as well as leading on the Department's Athena SWAN work. He predominantly teaches at undergraduate level, leading a final year module, Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport. He also has experience of supervising at doctoral level.

Career overview

Prior to joining NTU in 2002, Dr Hindley was employed as a Research Assistant at Northumbria University where he combined undergraduate teaching with supporting colleagues within the Department of Sports Development with research projects and funding applications.

Research areas

Dr Hindley is a member of the .

Areas of interest surround the governance of sport and related issues of regulation, sport policy, and stakeholder involvement. Dr Hindley has published a number of book chapters and research papers on this subject, and in particular examined the growing supporter trust movement which has highlighted questions regarding accountability, democracy, and decision-making within sport’s governing bodies.

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist. Dr Hindley would be interested in supervising students’ research in areas relating to the sociology of sport, the social impact of sport, sports governance, and sport policy and politics. Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.

Sponsors and collaborators

  • Dr Hindley was successfully awarded an Inspire Mark from the London Organising Committee (LOCOG) to run a 'Learning Legacies' event at NTU in June 2011.
  • He was awarded SIS funding for a project working in partnership with Notts County Football in the Community department on developing an effective monitoring and evaluation toolkit, (December 2009-December 2010), £10,000
  • Dr Hindley has contributed to UK Sport’s Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Leadership Programme where he ran a unit exploring the operating environments of international sports.
  • He is also a recipient of a Jao Havalange Scholarship, undertaking research on behalf of the world’s governing body for football, FIFA, on social capital and volunteering in football clubs, (September 2006-September 2007), £10,000

Publications

Book:

Book chapters:

. Hindley D and Williamson, D in (eds) Paramio Salcines JL, Babiak K and Walters G, Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility, 2013, London, Routledge

. Hindley D in (eds) Hynes D and Kiernan A, Football and its Communities, 2013, Witney, Interdisciplinary Press

Conference proceedings:

. Parkes C and Hindley D, Playing Politics: Politics in Sport Festival, People's History Museum, Manchester, 14th June 2014

. Hindley D, Play the Game Conference: Stepping up for Democracy in Sport, Aarhus, Denmark, 28-31 October 2013

Byron T and Hindley D, European Conference on Education Research (ECER), Creativity and Innovation in Educational Research, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-13 September 2013

. Aiken V, Byrom T and Hindley D, Annual Learning & Teaching Conference, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé, 26th March 2013

. Hindley D, 20th European Association of Sport Management (EASM) Conference, Sport Between Business and Civil Society, Aalborg, Denmark, 18-21 September 2012

. Hindley, D and Kontogianni, M, 3rd Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference of Sport and Society, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, 23-25 July 2012

Press expertise

  • Recreational (mass participation) running
  • Social impact of sport
  • Sport and social inclusion
  • Sport policy
  • Sports governance
  • Stakeholder involvement in sport (in particular fan involvement).