Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Jon Dart
Senior Lecturer
Jon Dart is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Policy and Sociology in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University.
His research interests focus on the critical study of sport, focusing on intersection of politics and protest.
His research and teaching interests centre on sport and social inequality with particular attention given to the impact of social class, gender, and ethnicity on access to, and participation, in all forms of sport and physical activity.
Current Teaching
- Sport and Social Science
- Sport Development
Research Interests
Jon has also researched and published on the pedagogy and disciplinary borders of sociology of sport, and on the representation of sport in film and popular literature.
His work has been published in leading sport journals including the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Sociology of Sport Journal, Leisure Studies, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and Sport, Education and Society. He has also co-edited, with Stephen Wagg, Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play for Palgrave Macmillan.
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- Sport science