Ian Jones is a member of the Department of Sport and Event Management at Bournemouth University. His areas of interest are sporting identities, sport fan behaviour, and research methods for sport. He is author of Research Methods for Sport Studies which has been translated into several languages , and Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity (with Lorraine Brown and Immy Holloway).

Ian is a managing editor of the journal 'Leisure Studies', and a member of the editorial advisory boards for The Journal of Sport & Tourism, the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, and the International Journal of Festival and Event Management, and has acted as reviewer for a number of journals including The Journal of Sport Management, Leisure Studies, Leisure Sciences, The International Journal of Sport Management, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Sport, and The European Journal of Sport Science. He was previously Head of Department for Sport and Physical Activity (2007-2019) and deputy chair of the University Social Science & Humanities Research Ethics Panel. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research

My current research interests are focused upon two main areas. The first is that of sport fan behaviour, and the second is that of the relationship between sport and well-being.

Publications

Outreach & engagement

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