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Dr Dan Bates

Senior Lecturer

Dan is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development with a research and teaching focus in sport for development. His work examines issues of inclusion, equity, and social value.

Dan has worked in a range of sport development, community, and young-people focussed occupations. His professional experience led him to pursue doctoral research that explored the empowering potential of community sport development practices in the UK. He is an active researcher and currently leads a number of commissioned national and regional evaluation projects that examine the impact of sport-based programmes for a wide range of social outcomes, supporting partners to develop their monitoring, evaluation and learning practices.

Dan’s research expertise covers several aspects of sport for development theory and practice, with a specific focus on community models of delivery, power and governance, qualitative evaluation methodologies and theory-based evaluation. He has provided research and consultancy services for Sport England, The Football Foundation, Positive Futures, and The Lord’s Taverners.

Dan is also passionate about physical activity in the outdoors and is currently engaged in research that explores issues of access and inclusion for underrepresented groups, and captures the social value of green space.

Current Teaching

Dan teaches across all levels of the BA (Hons) Sport Development degree and MA Sport Development and Management course.

Research Interests

Sport for Development
Community sport and physical activity
Equity, diversity, and inclusion in sport, leisure and the outdoors
Critical social theory
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Qualitative evaluation methodologies and theory-based evaluation

0113 81 21789
D.J.Bates@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Cavendish Hall, 221, Headingley Campus

Carnegie School of Sport

Ask Me About

Sport for Development
Evaluation
Community
Equality and inclusion
Outdoors
Public health

Selected Outputs

Bates D (2023) From Football for all, to not about Football at all': insights into the development of an evaluation and learning methodology for The Football Foundation's national 'Active Through Football' programme. In: The Football Collective, 25 November 2023 - 26 November 2023, Leeds.
Wilson J; Bates D (2023) Sport Development Practitioners Perspectives of Programme Architecture Innovations: Getting Adults Active Through Football. In: European Association of Sport Management EASM, 12 September 2023 - 15 September 2023, Belfast.
Bates D; Fraser B (2019) 'You're more of a coconut’: the untapped potential of storytelling in community sport. 11 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
Bates D (2019) Sport for Development in the UK: something old, something new…?. In: UK Sport Development Conference, 11 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
Bates D (2015) “Oh you’re gonna talk to people?!”: Unpacking effective Community Sport principles and processes. 3 September 2015 - 3 September 2020.

Bates D; Hylton K (2020) Asset-based community sport development: putting community first. Managing Sport and Leisure

https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1822754

Wilson J; Bates D (2024) Active Through Football: Capturing systems change through Ripple Effects Mapping [Online]. Leeds: LBU.
Bates D; Coalter F; Long J (2024) Active Through Football: A guide the the development and implementation of place-based physical activity interventions [Online]. Leeds: LBU.
Bates D; Coalter F; Long J; Wilson J (2023) Active Through Football: Evaluation and Learning Partner Interim Report [Online]. Leeds Beckett University: The Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society.
Bates D; Bennett S (2020) Wicketz Workshops: A review for The Lord's Taverners [Online].
Hylton K; Bates D; Tucker L; Sabina K (2018) Young People, Social Mixing and Trust in Sport: Review of Literature for Jump/Sported [Online].
Bates D (2016) Village Games: A report to highlight effective community sport process. Research report for Derbyshire Community Sports Trust [Online].

Bates D (2023) ‘Open Space’ facilitation: an effective participatory technique for stakeholder knowledge exchange and collaboration [Online] sportanddev.org.

Available from: https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/%E2%80%98open-space%E2%80%99-facilitation-effective-participatory-technique-stakeholder-knowledge

Bates D; Partington J (2022) Physical Activity and Community Resilience. In: Cherrington J; Black J ed. Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. England: Routledge,