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Professor Grant Jarvie |
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School of Sport University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 466490 | |
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Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 466477 | |
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Email: grant.jarvie@stir.ac.uk | |
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Web: www.stir.ac.uk/sport |
| About |
Grant Jarvie graduated from Exeter University and Queens University (Ontario) with Bed [Hons] and MA degrees. He received his PhD from the University of Leicester, and has accepted an honorary doctorate from the National University (Taiwan). He is a social scientist with a significant experience of leading universities, research centres and university schools and/or departments in three different Universities- Warwick, Heriot-Watt and Stirling. He has published more over 100 papers in areas such as education, health and sport. He is advisor to a number of Governments [Scotland, Malaysia, Montenegro, Portugal, United Kingdom] on key matters of policy and development. His research has generated questions in both Scottish and other parliaments and his income generation to date has exceeded £14 million. He was Deputy Principal/ Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Stirling from 2006 to 2012 where he had responsibility for key portfolio’s, budgets, strategies and planning. He serves as an international advisor to UNESCO and has been visiting Research Professor to the Universities of Illinois, Toronto and Warsaw. He has significant external board experience having chaired joint local authority Chief Executive boards across three local authorities and held directorships of companies He has served on numerous international and national committees for sport, health and physical activity including two UK and one international research assessment exercise panels. He sits on the Board of the National Sports Agency sportscotland, the Quality Assurance Agency for Universities and is advisor to the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. He has worked with the Prince Albert Foundation- Monaco- on Sport and Peace projects that champion the role of sport in conflict resolution and international development. Born in Scotland he is a member of the David Hume Institute, has a close relationship with the work of the Iona Community and comes from an international sporting family.
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| Teaching |
| Grant teaches on the MSc in Sport Management |
| 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. |