Tom Gibbons Editor & Author

Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He is author of English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are ya? and co-editor of The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties. Tom has published various research articles and book chapters on the sociology and history of sport in the following topic areas: English/British national identity; globalisation and European integration; fandom; media; violence/hooliganism; disability; Christianity; football; endurance sport; and qualitative research methods

Dominic Malcolm is Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely in the sociology of sport including the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies, Sport and Sociology and Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. His core research interests draw on and apply the theoretical ideas of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology to two substantive areas: the social development of cricket; and sport, health and medicine. In these fields he has published Globalizaing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, The Social Organization of Sports Medicine and most recently Sport,Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport?