1st Edition
Sporting Capital Transforming Sports Development Policy and Practice
1. Introduction
2. The Public Policy Challenge for Community Sport: The Need for a Theoretically Driven Paradigm Shift
3. Sporting Capital: What Is It, How Does It Relate to Other Forms of Human, Cultural and Social Capital and Why Is It Important?
4. Theories of Sport Development and Behaviour Change Applied to Sport: Why Do We Need Yet Another Theory?
5. Sport Participation Over the Life-Course: Linking the Evidence to Sporting Capital Theory
6. Sporting Capital in England: From Measurement Process to Painting the Landscape
7. Sporting Capital in England: A Level Playing Field? Exploring Age, Gender and Social Class
8. Building Sporting Capital: Applying the Theory to Policy and Practice
9. The Future for Sporting Capital: Where Do We Go from Here? Refining and Testing the Theory
Biography
Nicholas F. Rowe is a freelance sport research consultant and Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. For nearly 30 years he worked for the GB Sport Council and Sport England, most recently as Sport England’s Strategic Lead for Research and Evaluation
