Andrew Adams is a member of the Department of Sport and Event Management at Bournemouth University. Andrew’s research has featured in a variety of sport, policy, and public management journals including, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sporty and Society, European Sport Management Quarterly and Sport Management Review. He served as editor in Chief of Managing Sport and Leisure between 2017-2020 and is a member of the editorial advisory boards for Managing Sport and Leisure and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.

Andrew's primary research interests focus on social justice and human rights as they apply to the production and participation of global sport forms. He has delivered keynote talks addressing these themes to various European academic sport conventions and conferences. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Specifically, his current research addresses.
(1) how sport and leisure volunteers have been affected by the sudden cessation of their serious leisure activity and in particular how individuals have negotiated loss of role. The emphasis is on understanding how rationalising processes can shape management and policy frameworks for volunteers post Covid-19. Andrew is currently keen to recruit PhD students with a research interest in understanding, enabling and enacting social justice as an organising framework for sport and leisure practices.

(2) the social perceptions of evaluation practice with a specific emphasis on scrutiny of practices that inhibit or enable power relations for practitioners and implementation agents.

He is currently completing a research project with Active Dorset and previously has completed funded projects with the Ordnance Survey, Wessex Deanery, Wessex Rotary and SAFE Southampton. Andrew also received funding from The Leisure Studies Association in 2019 for a collaborative project with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and Solent University (UK). The output, a co-edited book ‘Evaluation in Sport and Leisure’, is due to be published in 2021 by Routledge. Andrew is the author and co-editor of Who Owns Sport: Routledge, 2019.

Research

My current research interests and thought leadership focus upon two main areas. The first is that of volunteer engagement and how the lived experiences of sport volunteers helps with management processes, and the second is that of human rights in sport, specifically in terms of how individuals can make sense of their position in webs of rights in relation t particular activities.

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