Dr Daniel Burdsey

Dan is a Reader and Deputy Head of School (Research and Enterprise) in the School of Sport and Service Management. His research focuses on the sociology of race, ethnicity and popular culture. It is linked fundamentally by its central theme of qualitative observational research on ethnicities as lived in public cultures/spaces, and emphasises notions of social justice, sociological intervention and academic activism.

Much of his work over the last 15 years has focused on British Asian experiences in sport and his current research explores the role of physical culture among older members of British Asian communities. Dan has also spent a decade investigating race, whiteness and the English seaside, culminating in his second monograph, Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Dan is well-known for his work on racism and anti-racism in English football, and this continues to be a prominent area within his research. He is the author/editor of five books and his sixth, a co-edited volume entitled Transforming Sport, will be published by Routledge in 2018. 

During the late 1990s he was a member of the Leicester City FC Anti-Racist Task Force which initiated the Foxes Against Racism project and he has since carried out consultancy work on British Asian football fans (with the Asian Football Network) for the FA Premier League. Dan has been interviewed about his research on BBC Radio 4, BBC Five Live and BBC Asian Network. He has contributed essays to The Conversation, and EUROPP and Democratic Audit blogs. Dan is a member of the editorial boards for International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Leisure Studies, Sociological Research Online and Sociology of Sport Journal.

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How I like to teach

I am an enthusiastic and passionate educator, and I like to bring to the classroom the same values that underpin my research:

  • the pursuit of social justice;
  • the inclusion of marginalised voices and perspectives;
  • a critical sociological standpoint;
  • and the means to challenge dominant institutions, structures and orthodoxies.
I try to make my teaching relevant and timely, paying attention to local issues alongside a global perspective. At the moment, I teach Power and Politics in Sport and Youth and Youth Culture modules, where students explore and analyse diverse topics including activism in sport, discrimination in sport, youth homelessness and the #blacklivesmatter movement.

My research interests

My research interests reside within the sociology of race, ethnicity and popular culture, and can be divided into three main themes. First, the experiences of British Asians in sport and leisure (combining both in-depth qualitative fieldwork and critical dicourse analysis). Within this theme, I am currently working on research relating to ageing and older members of these communities. Second, social and cultural aspects of the contemporary English seaside and coast, especially the connections between race, whiteness, migration and ‘new’ spaces of multiculture (utilising ethnographic methods). Third, theorising race and racism in football, where I am currently interested (conceptutally) in connecting ides around Empire, racialised identities and anti-racist resistance.

Read Daniel Burdsey's article in The Conversation

Research activity

Current research projects

Previous research projects

  • Understanding the benefits of linking professional football clubs to Football Foundation funded artificial turf pitches
  • Understanding the potential of informal and lifestyle sports
  • Football Foundation funded 3G Football Turf Pitches (AGPs): access to football and sports participation within the local community
  • Evaluation of the Active Women Project in Hastings and Rother
  • Realise the potential of the community – Albion in the Community volunteer impact study
  • Multiculturalism and physical culture: the case of the Greater Toronto Area
  • Understanding sustainability in relation to Football Foundation and Barclays facility projects

Research centres and groups

Centre for Research in Spatial Environmental and Cultural Politics (SECP)

Centre of Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies (COSTALS)

Social media

Contact me

School of Sport and Service Management
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643745
Email: D.C.Burdsey@brighton.ac.uk

Biography

I have a PhD in Sociology (Brunel University, 2004), an MA (Distinction) in Sociology of Sport (University of Leicester, 1999) and an Upper Second Class BSc (Hons) in Sport and Recreation Studies (University of Birmingham, 1998). I joined the University of 映客直播 as a Lecturer in 2004.

Research output


 

PhD students

 
NameThesis
Aarti Ratna (2008) British Asian females’ racialised experiences of gender and identity in women’s football 
Ben Powis (2016) An embodied approach to disability sport: the lived experience of visually impaired cricket players 
Jacob Naish

The power dynamics of sport for development and peace: Governmental rationalities and microtechniques
Hillary Kipnis

Behind the walls: A look at everyday resistance and the role of sport in the lives of Palestinian
women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Becky House

The experiences of bisexual men and women in grassroots team sports
Claire Collison

Women refugees and yoga

Roles

Internal

Deputy Head of School (Research) in School of Sport and Service Management

External

Editorial boards

  • International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Editorial Board (2016-present)
  • Sociological Research Online, Editorial Board (2015-present)
  • Leisure Studies, Editorial board (2015-present)
  • Sociology of Sport Journal, Editorial Board (2014-present)
  • International Sport Studies, Editorial Board (2010-present)
  • Sociology, Associate Editorial Board (2013-16)

Assessor for the Australian Research Council (2013-present): Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Research Awards, Linkage Projects.

Grant proposals for: Arts and Humanities Research Council; British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grants; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Large Grants and Open Research Area Grants.

Journal article submissions for:

Children and Society; City and Society; Cosmopolitan Civil Societies; Current Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; European Physical Education Review; Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; International Journal of Intercultural Relations; International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics; International Review for the Sociology of Sport; International Sport Studies; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Journal of Consumer Culture; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events; Journal of Sport and Social Issues; Journal of Sport for Development; Leisure Sciences; Leisure Studies; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; New Media and Society; Perpetual and Motor Skills; Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise; Qualitative Sociology; Soccer and Society; Social Semiotics; Sociological Inquiry; Sociological Research Online; Sociological Review; Sociology; Sociology of Sport Journal; South African Review of Sociology; Sport in History; Sport in Society; Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism; Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions; World Leisure Journal.

Book proposals for:

Bloomsbury Academic; Edinburgh University Press; Palgrave; Routledge; University of Nebraska Press; University of Toronto Press.

Awards

Internal university awards

Supervisory lead on fully-funded PhD studentship (2016)

Climbing the Summit research award (2013) £3,500

Early Career Researcher award (2008) £3,000