Part I: Introducing the Sport Development Landscape
1 Introduction
2 Historical and political context of the United Kingdom
3 Locating and defining sport development in a global context
4 Exploring organisations, policy, and practice
5 Starting to understand, research, and read about sport development
6 Key concepts and theories in sport development
Part II: Agencies and Organisations in Delivery, Policy and Practice
7 Central Government and Key National Agencies
8 National Agencies and Key Charities
9 Local Authority Sport Development
10 National Governing Bodies of Sport
11 Sub Regional Agencies: The Active Partnerships in a UK Context
12 Voluntary and Third Sector Sport Development
13 Coaching, Coaches and Sport Development
14 Schools and Sport Development
15 Higher Education Sport Development
16 The Sport-for-Development Sector: A Role in Social Justice?
17 The Private Sector
Part III: Conclusions, Future Directions and Debates
18 Where Next for Sport Development in the UK?
19 New Policy Pressures and New Delivery Models in Unstable Times
Biography
Chris Mackintosh is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development at the Department for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is Chair and Founder of the United Kingdom Sport Development Network (UKSDN) and currently has research interests in public policy of sport, development, and delivery systems in national governing bodies, local government, and the role of the voluntary sector. He has advised the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Sport England, Sport Scotland, the Sport and Recreation Alliance, and undertaken over 100 industry-facing research projects.
