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Professor Fred Coalter |
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Department of Sports Studies University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 466487 | |
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Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 466477 | |
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Email: j.a.coalter@stir.ac.uk | |
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Web: www.sports.stir.ac.uk |
| About |
| Fred Coalter was appointed in May 2003. Prior to this he was Director of the Centre for Leisure Research at the University of Edinburgh (1990-2003) and Director of the Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies at the Polytechnic of North London (1986-1990). |
| Teaching |
| Fred is module co-ordinator for the MSc module, Public Policies for Sport. He also contributes to module SPS917 Operational Management in Sport and module SPS916 Sports Policy, Planning and Management. |
| Research |
| In 2002 Fred was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management and in 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences (USA). In addition has been a member of the Council of Europe Working Group on Sport and Social Exclusion; Chair of sportscotland’s Sport 21 Forum on Sport and Social Inclusion; member of Sport England's Working Group on Performance Measurement for the Development of Sport; member of Audit Commission’s Working Group on Best Value in Sport and Recreation; expert advisor to the Scottish Physical Activity and Health Council; member of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Neighbourhood Renewal Unit’s Advisory Group on Sport and sportscotland's Sport 21 Implementation Steering Group. He is also a member of the editorial board of Managing Leisure: an international journal. |
| Publications |
A wider social role for sport:Who's keeping the score? Routledge, 2007 Sports clubs, social capital and social regeneration: ill-defined interventions with hard to follow outcomes? Sport in Society Vol 10(4):537-559 Sport and Social Inclusion in Falkner, G. & Taylor, A.H. Excercise, health and mental health: emerging relationships. London: Routledge, 2006 Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual London, UK Sport. 2006 The Duality of Leisure Policy in C Rojek, S Shaw and A Veal (eds) (2006) A handbook of Leisure Studies Palgrave, London, 2006 The Social Benefits of Sport, sportscotland, Edinburgh, 2004 Stuck in the blocks? A sustainable sporting legacy? In After the Goldrush: The London Olympics Institute for Public Policy Research/DEMOS, London 2004 'Reference Pricing: changing perceptions of entrance charges for sport and recreation', Managing leisure: An international journal Vol 9 No 3 2004 |
