Profile
Dr Paul Beedie, Course Leader MA Community Sport Management
I am a principal lecturer and have worked in Bedford for twenty years now. I came here as an adventure education specialist and have extended my interests to include community sport in the last ten years.
Following the introduction of our now well established BA Sport & Community Leadership degree, and given the excitement generated by the 2012 London Olympic Legacy, we recently validated the MA Community Sport Management in anticipation of a growing demand for sport managers to galvanise activity across all community groups. I am fit and make a positive contribution to many local sport and recreation initiatives.
Qualifications
- PhD Social Sciences - De Montfort University
- MEd Education Studies - Sheffield University
- Mountain Instructors Certificate
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education - University College of North Wales
- BA (Hons) PE and Geography - Birmingham University
Teaching Expertise
- Sport Sociology
- Applied Adventure Recreation
- Dissertation Supervision to PhD level
- Community Sport in Action
- Course Leader BA Sport and Community Leadership
- Course Leader MA Community Sport Management
Research Interests
- Applied research and consultancy relating to adventure tourism
- The running participation phenomenon
- The 2012 Olympic Legacy and its implementation
- Community sport and physically active lifestyles
Projects
- Grant, £10,000 from the University of the Highlands and Islands for an Adventure Research Centre at Fort William, Scotland Feasibility Study: Submitted July 2011
- Validation of new MA Community Sport Development
- Tender, for delivering Walking Leader Training with Natural England. Unsuccessful with bid following invited presentation at Natural England HQ (Cheltenham: March 26th 2010) and follow up with suggested amendments (April 8th 2010)
- Grant (April 2010) £16,000 University of Bedfordshire, Working with Diversity: Dialogue for Peaceful Change
- Grant (January 2010) £7625 University of Bedfordshire, Employability Project: Preparation for Work in Sport, Leisure, Adventure and Recreation (SLAR)
- Grant (December 2009), £15,600 University of Bedfordshire, Research Informed Teaching
- Routledge book proposal review: Adventure, Tourism and Culture by Maurice J Kane, Dept. of Tourism, University of Otago, NZ
- Joint Editorship of the Learning Matters book ‘Sport Sociology’ (second edition 2010)
- Joint grant proposal to Sport England with BedsRCC (Sustainable Rural Communities)
- Grant appraisal: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
External Roles
- Committee Member, Sport Bedford (2008 - present)Steering Group Member, Activity Leadership Review and Launch of the Revised Standards for Activity Leadership (Sports Leaders UK) (2009 - present)
- Member Eastern Region Physical Activity Alliance (2008- present)
- External Examiner: University of Cumbria (2008 - present)
- External Examiner: University of Central Lancashire (2010 - present)
- QAA Panel member Liverpool John Moores University 2003
- External Outdoor Adventure specialist, Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure internal review 2004, Liverpool John Moores University
- External Examiner: University of Manchester (Warrington campus, 2003 - 2006)
- External Examiner: University of Liverpool (Warrington campus, 2004 - 2006)
- External Examiner: University of Chester (2006 - 2007)
- Academic Referee: Annals of Tourism Research
- Academic Referee: Tourist Studies
- Academic Referee: World Leisure Journal
- Academic Referee: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning
- Academic Referee: Leisure Studies
- Advisory Board Member: Journal of Sport and Tourism
Contact details
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T: +44 (0)1234 793339
E: paul.beedie@beds.ac.uk
