Author: Spencer Harris

Dr. Mathew Dowling is a senior lecturer at the Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He completed his Ph D at the University of Alberta, Canada, and is alma mater of Loughborough University, UK. His current research interests focus on the application of organisational and political theory to understand sport organisations and systems. He is widely published in sport policy and politics, organisational change, systemic governance, professionalistion and comparative methods in sport. Dr. Spencer Harris is an associate professor of Sport Management at the University of Colorado, US. He has more than 30 years of experience within the sport development industry and has worked for the University of Hertfordshire, Sport England and Right to Play. He completed his Ph D at Loughborough University, UK. His research interests centre on sport governance and, specifically, the sport–politics–power relationship.