Dr Davide Sterchele
About
Davide joined Leeds Beckett University as a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in January 2013 from the University of Padua, Italy, where he completed a PhD in sociology with an ethnographic study on football and inter-ethnic relationships in post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Davide is a board member of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport (EASS), whose Young Researcher Award he initiated in 2009 and has chaired ever since. He is also a former coordinator of the Research Network 28 ‘Society and Sports’ of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and he has served in the Editorial Board of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
Alongside his academic work, Davide holds both a FA Level 1 and a Uefa B football coaching qualification.
Current Teaching
- Sport events organisations (L4)
- Sport events and society (L4)
- Events organisations management (L4)
- Managing events workforce (L5)
- Impacts and legacies of sport (L6)
- Events in society (L4)
- Policy and politics of sports events (L6)
- Sport events – Impacts, issues and policy (L7)
Research Interests
Underpinned by a qualitative, interpretive sociological approach, Davide’s research mainly deals with the inclusive/exclusive dynamics in sports and the changing forms of physical cultures (notably in the fields of sport for development and peace, alternative sport events, anti-racism/multiculturalism, and lifestyle sports).
Davide is currently part of a research group which investigates the institutionalisation of Italian parkour. He was previously involved in the evaluation of the Battle Back project, funded by The Royal British Legion, to analyse the role of adaptive sports and outdoor activities in the psychosocial recovery and personal development of wounded, injured, and sick military personnel.
Davide’s previous study funded by the Leverhulme Trust examined liminality and de-sportisation as characteristics of alternative/anti-discriminatory sport events and initiatives, with particular focus on the Mondiali Antirazzisti (Antiracitst World Cup).
Selected Publications
Journal articles (10)
- Sterchele D (2020) Memorable tourism experiences and their consequences: An interaction ritual (IR) theory approach
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102847
View Repository Record - Sterchele D; Ferrero Camoletto R (2017) Governing bodies or managing freedom? Subcultural struggles, national sport systems and the glocalised institutionalisation of parkour
https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2017.1289235
View Repository Record - Pizzolati M; Sterchele D (2016) Mixed-sex in sport for development: a pragmatic and symbolic device. The case of touch rugby for forced migrants in Rome
https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1133600
View Repository Record - Ferrero Camoletto R; Sterchele D; Genova C (2015) Managing alternative sports: new organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2015.1065237
View Repository Record - Sterchele D; Saint-Blancat C (2015) Keeping it liminal. The Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup) as a multifocal interaction ritual
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.855937
View Repository Record - Sterchele D (2015) De-sportizing physical activity: From sport-for-development to play-for-development
https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2015.11687958
View Repository Record - Sterchele D; Saint-Blancat C (2015) Keeping it liminal. The Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup) as a multifocal interaction ritual
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.855937 - Sterchele D (2013) Fertile land or mined field? Peace-building and ethnic tensions in post-war Bosnian football
https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.801223
View Repository Record - Sterchele D; Saint-Blancat C (2013) Keeping it liminal. The Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup) as a multifocal interaction ritual
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.855937 - Sterchele D (2007) The limits of inter-religious dialogue and the form of football rituals: The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina
https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768607077032
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Chapters (3)
- Sterchele D; Ferrero Camoletto R; Borgogni A; Digennaro S (2017) Undisciplined spaces: lifestyle sports and sport-for-all policies in Italy. In: Turner D; Carnicelli S Lifestyle Sports and Public Policy. London: Routledge, pp. 43-60.
- Digennaro S; Sterchele D; Borgogni A (2016) Un análisis de la participación deportiva de Italia desde el Advocacy Coalition Framework. In: Llopis-Goig RLG Participacion deportiva en Europa. Barcelona: Oberta UOC Publishing, pp. 359-383.http://www.editorialuoc.com/participacion-deportiva-en-europa
- Borgogni A; Digennaro S; Sterchele D (2015) Sport clubs in Italy. In: Breuer C; Hoekman R; Nagel S; van der Werff H Sport clubs in Europe. New York: Springer, pp. 249-269.http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319176345
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Films or broadcasts (1)
- Interview with Davide Sterchele on BBC Sportshour (2013) Sterchele D; Hammer J. :
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