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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Barrie Houlihan is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the social sciences, with a research focus spanning sociology and political science, gender studies, economics and econometrics, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, and information systems and management.

Their research covers a range of topics related to sport, including:

  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Doping in Sports
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Ethics in Business and Education

They have contributed to major publication venues predominantly in sport policy and management fields, publishing multiple times in:

  • International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
  • International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
  • European Sport Management Quarterly
  • Sport in Society
  • Performance Enhancement & Health

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Balancing mission creep, means, effectiveness and legitimacy at the World Anti-Doping Agency" (2020), Performance Enhancement & Health
  • "An analysis of governance failure and power dynamics in international sport: the Russian doping scandal" (2021), International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
  • "The new hope of Chinese football? Youth football reforms and policy conflicts in the implementation process" (2022), European Sport Management Quarterly
  • "Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap" (2022), Sport in Society
  • "Sport as a diplomatic resource: the case of South Korea, 1970-2017" (2021), International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Elsa Kristiansen
  • James Skinner
  • Daniel Read
  • Daniel Lock
  • Spencer Harris

Barrie Houlihan has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Elite Sport Development: Policy Learning and Political Priorities

    Mick Green;Barrie Houlihan

  • Impacts of the Olympic Games as mega-events

    Maximos Malfas;Elena Theodoraki;Barrie Houlihan

  • Sport and international politics

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Dying to win - Doping in sport and the development of anti-doping policy

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Sports Mega-Events as Part of a Nation's Soft Power Strategy: The Cases of Germany (2006) and the UK (2012)

    Jonathan Grix;Barrie Houlihan

  • Sport and Society: A Student Introduction

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Sport, Policy and Politics: A Comparative Analysis

    Barrie Houlihan

  • The changing status of school sport and physical education: explaining policy change

    Barrie Houlihan;Mick Green

  • Public Sector Sport Policy Developing a Framework for Analysis

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Comparative elite sport development : systems, structures and public policy

    Barrie Houlihan;Mick Green

  • Modernization and sport: the reform of sport England and UK sport

    Barrie Houlihan;Mick Green

  • Sporting Excellence, Schools and Sports Development: The Politics of Crowded Policy Spaces:

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Sport, National Identity and Public Policy

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Participation in sport: international policy perspectives.

    Matthew Nicholson;Russell Hoye;Barrie Houlihan

  • The Politics of Sports Development: Development of Sport or Development Through Sport?

    Barrie Houlihan;Anita White

  • Advocacy Coalitions and Elite Sport Policy Change in Canada and the United Kingdom

    Mick Green;Barrie Houlihan

  • Governmentality, modernization, and the "disciplining" of national sporting organizations: athletics in Australia and the United Kingdom.

    Mick Green;Barrie Houlihan

  • Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies: A Case Study of Sports Mega-Events in Brazil and the UK

    Jonathan Grix;Paul Michael Brannagan;Barrie Houlihan

  • Homogenization, Americanization, and Creolization of Sport: Varieties of Globalization

    Barrie Houlihan

  • Developing the research agenda in sport policy

    Barrie Houlihan;Daniel Bloyce;Andy Smith

  • Chapter 1 – Comparative elite sport development

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Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Giulianotti
Richard Giulianotti Loughborough University
Dawn Penney
Dawn Penney Edith Cowan University
Paul Downward
Paul Downward Loughborough University

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