Stuart Braye Editor

Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK, and has authored three books, including: English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are you? (2014); The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (co-editor with Kevin Dixon, 2015); and, Sport and English National Identity in a ‘Disunited Kingdom’ (co-editor with Dominic Malcolm, 2017). Tom has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics including disability and sport; national identity, globalisation and sport; religion and sport; and various sporting subcultures.

Stuart Braye is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has a Master’s degree in Sport Management from Northumbria University, UK, and has submitted his PhD titled ‘A mockery of equality’: The relationship between the Paralympic Games and disability equality in the UK. He is a former Paralympic athlete and bronze medallist (Barcelona 1992) and currently has six journal articles and two book chapters on the relationship between Paralympic/disability sport and critical disability studies. His current research project is on the views of disabled children/young people and their parents on experiences in physical education.