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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
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Alex gained his first degree in Sport and Fitness studies as a student here at the University of Bedfordshire (University of Luton) before going on to complete his PhD thesis in sports sociology. He teaches on the undergraduate sport and leisure programme covering modules such as The Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Development, Personal and Professional Development in Sport and Leisure.
A long held passion for sport have inspired his interests in the sociological and cultural dimensions of sporting participation. An international standard amateur boxer Alex took out a professional boxer’s license to conduct a three year ethnographic study among amateur and professional boxers, with the aim of critically evaluating the complex social processes contributing to boxing-practitioners cultural and athletic development from ‘the inside’. Post PhD, Alex is currently in the embryonic stages of ethnographic research among Thailand’s Muay Thai boxers in Bangkok and various other regions in the South and North of Thailand.
Alex still likes to train regularly at his local boxing gymnasium and coaches many boxers. He also serves as a Development Commissioner for the Amateur Boxing Association of England and was invited to attend the 2002 Postgraduate Seminar at the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece.
Alex's central research interests lie in the investigation of socio-cultural dimensions of contemporary sport forms through the application of interpretative/qualitative methodology. His academic interests and teaching competences also take in the following related areas: the sociology of sport, sport development in relation to aspects of social inclusion/exclusion and community regeneration, the embodiment of sport, youth development through sport, culture and power, cultural criminology and urban ethnography.
