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Professor Grant Jarvie
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Department of Sports Studies

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK
telephone Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 466490
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email Email: grant.jarvie@stir.ac.uk
web Web: www.sports.stir.ac.uk
About

Grant Jarvie is currently Deputy Principal and Professor at the University of Stirling. His remit as Deputy Principal covers Learning, Teaching and Students, Highlands and Islands, Sport and aspects of Internationalisation. He is currently advisor to governments on higher education, has a successful track record of income generation and was involved in the benchmarking of research in UK Universities in both the 1996 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises.

Grant was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2009 in recognition for his efforts to forge international co-operation and academic developments between Universities. He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Warsaw. He has held established Chairs and been Head of departments and research centres in different UK Universities including, Stirling, Warwick and Heriot-Watt. He currently serves as a Ministerial appointment to the Board of sportscotland the National Sports Agency which oversees the distribution of lottery funding.

His research has covered aspects of sport, health and education in other countries including Denmark, China, South Africa, Kenya, Taiwan and France.

Grant was born in Scotland, comes from an International Sporting family and acts as a panel member for the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Teaching
Grant current teaches on the MSc in Sport Studies
Research
Recent Research Reports have included- Factors affecting high performance sport in Scotland; A Cost Benefit Analysis of Minority Indigenous Sports in Scotland; A Report into the feasibility of a European Academy of Sports for All; Factors affecting the Success of East African Runners and a published study of the ways in which sport contributes to campaigns aimed at helping with Humanitarian Aid efforts, poverty, and community regeneration.
Publications

Jarvie, G (2008) Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics. Oxford: Berg

(2007) Sport, Social Change and the Public Intellectual. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Vol 42, No 4:411-424.

Jarvie, G (2006) Sport, Culture and Society: Can Sport Change the World. London: Routledge.
Jarvie, G et al (2006). A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Minority Indigenous Sports in Scotland. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.
Jarvie, G (2006). ‘The Promise and Possibilities of Running in and Out of Africa: Survey Results of Top East African Women Runners- in PitziladisY (Ed). The Science of East African Running: Nature of Nurture? London: Routledge.
Jarvie, G (2005). ‘The North American Émigré. Highland Games and Social Capital in International Communities’ in C Ray (Ed) The Transatlantic-Scots. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, pp111-136.