Adam Brown	Marcos Alvito	Miguel Moniz	Nina Tiesler
Nuno Domingos	Stephen Wagg	Victor Pereira	Nélia Bergano

Marcos Alvito | Miguel Moniz | Nina Clara Tiesler | Nuno Domingos | Stephen Wagg | Victor Pereira | Nélia Bergano |

 

BIOGRAFICAL NOTES

Adam Brown, Dr. phil. in Popular Culture Studies (School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University), is a director and founder member of SUBSTANCE with particular expertise and interest in sport and its social and community impacts. Much of this has focused on sport and social inclusion, football and its fans and major event legacies. He is also one of the few researchers in the country to consider the social effects of angling and is also a board member of both FC United of Manchester and Cornerhouse.

Currently, Adam is leading a major three-year Big Lottery funded project The Social and Community Benefits of Angling –Research (2009 – 11) for Supporters Direct, the national agency that helps football supporters gain democratic roles in running clubs. Furthermore, he is part of a national consortium researching a new major event evaluation framework for UK Sport. He also oversees the Breaking Barriers research for London Active Communities, works with the cultural sector and is SUBSTANCE’s events organizer.

Adam made extensive research and policy experience in the areas of sport and popular culture. After obtaining his PhD in 1995, he works as Research Associate at the Institute of Popular Culture in Liverpool and Associate Research Fellow at the Football Research Unit in London. From 1996 – 2006 he operated as Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University. In this time Adam led a number of major academic research projects and applied research at MIPC, including projects for the ESRC, UK Sport and the Football Foundation, such as Racism on Football (1996) and Fanatics! International Research Conference (1996).
He was also a leading member of the Government Football Task Force and published widely on issues of democratization in football and popular culture.
He is author of the books Fanatics! Power, identity and fandom in football (Routledge: London, 1998) and Not For Sale: Manchester United, Murdoch and the Defeat of BSkyB, (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2008). He was co- and guest editor of various journal articles and book chapters such as in SOCCER & SOCIETY (Routledge), POST GAMES REVIEWS (UK Sport) and LAW AND SPORT IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (Cass).
Apart from his research activities, he gave lectures at the Department of Sociology in Manchester Metropolitan University.
(for more details and publications see complete CV in PDF)

 

SELECTED RESEARCH

2009-11: The Social and Community Benefits of Angling, for Big Lottery Fund
2008-09: The Social Value of Football, for Supporters Direct
2008: The Impact of London 2012 on Deprivation in Newham, for London Borough of Newham
2007-09: Breaking Barriers - Football and Community Cohesion, for Football Foundation
2005-2006: Fishing and Social Inclusion, Consultancy for Home Office and Countryside Agency
2006: EA Games: Football - An all consuming passion?, for EA Sports
2002-2006: Football and Its Communities for Football Foundation
2004: The Sports Development Impact of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games: Post-Games Review, for UK Sport
2001-2002: Sport, Governance and the City: Football its fans and social exclusion, for Economic and Social Research Council
2000-2004: The European Union and the Football Industry: MIPC for European Commission Fifth Framework Programme
1996-1998: Music Policy, the Music Industry and Local Economic Development, ESRC R00236809
1995: Democratising Popular Culture: Comparing Football and Music, PhD: School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
1993: Football Fans and Civil Liberties: Case study of Galatasaray v Manchester United 1993, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University (1993)
1991: The Return of English Clubs to European Competition, Report to the House of Commons, Unit for Law and Popular Culture, Manchester Polytechnic

 

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Books
Brown, A, Crabbe, T and Mellor, G (2008), Football and Community in a Global Context: Studies in theory and practice, London: Routledge
A Brown and A Walsh (1999) Not For Sale: Manchester United, Murdoch and the Defeat of BSkyB, Edinburgh: Mainstream
A Brown (ed.) (1998) Fanatics! Power, identity and fandom in football, London: Routledge

Articles
Brown, A et al (2004) The Sports Development Impact of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games: Post Games Review, London: UK Sport
Brown, A et al (2001) The Sports Development Impact of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games: Initial Baseline Research, London: UK Sport

Book chapters
‘Manchester Is Red’? Manchester United, fan identity and the ‘Sport City’, in Andrews, D (ed) Manchester United: A Thematic Study, London: Routledge, 2004.
'Taken to Task: the Football Task Force and legislative regulation of football'
in G Osborn and S Greenfield (eds.) Law and Sport in Contemporary Society, London: Cass, 2000.
'The Football Task Force and the "regulator" debate', in Hamil, Michie, and Oughton (eds.) (2000) Football in the Digital Age: Whose game is it anyway,? Edinburgh, Mainstream