1st Edition
Strategic Sport Development
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Internal Analysis Chapter 3. The External Environment Chapter 4. Making Strategic Choices in Sport Development Chapter 5. Strategic Performance Management 1: strategic implementation Chapter 6. Strategic Performance Management 2: evaluating strategic sport development Chapter 7. Strategic Partnerships Chapter 8. Politics, Policy and Sport Development Chapter 9. Strategic Leadership Chapter 10. A different ball game? In pursuit of greater strategic collaboration between sport-specific and community sport development Chapter 11. Towards a ‘Community Practice’ approach
Biography
Stephen Robson is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. As well as leading the Sport Development degree, he also leads the teaching of strategic management. Stephen has extensive experience of working on national level projects related to employability and CPD in strategic sport development.
Kirstie Simpson is Deputy Head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Chester, UK. She began her career in local authority sport development and is now leading programmes in Sport Development and Sport Coaching. Her main research interest lies in the monitoring and evaluation of sport interventions.
Lee Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is currently doing a PhD examining the transformational potential of sport. His main research interests are around sociology of sport as well as the politics of sport.
