Foundations of Sport Development

Chris Mackintosh is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development at the Department for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is Chair and Founder of the United Kingdom Sport Development Network (UKSDN) and currently has research interests in public policy of sport, development, and delivery systems in national governing bodies, local government, and the role of the voluntary sector. He has advised the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Sport England, Sport Scotland, the Sport and Recreation Alliance, and undertaken over 100 industry-facing research projects.

• Part I: Introducing the sport development landscape, 1. Introduction, 2. Historical and political context of the United Kingdom, 3. Locating and defining sport development in a global context, 4. Exploring organisations, policy, and practice, 5. Starting to understand, research and read about sport development, 6. Key concepts and theories in sport development, Part II: Agencies and Organisations in Delivery, Policy and Practice, 7. Central government and key national agencies, 8. National agencies and key charities, 9. Local authority sport development, 10. National governing bodies of sport, 11. Sub regional agencies: the Active Partnerships in a UK context, 12. Voluntary and third sector sport development, 13. Coaching, coaches, and sport development, 14. Schools and sport development, 15. Higher education sport development, 16. The sport-for-development sector: a role in social justice?, 17. The private sector, Part III: Conclusions, future directions, and debates, 18. Where next for sport development in the UK?, 19. New policy pressures and new delivery models in unstable times