Professor David Brown
Professor in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture
Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences
Overview
David Brown is Professor in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture. David’s research interests concern the development of interpretive and critical sociological understandings of the changing body-self-society relationship in the fields of sport, physical culture and physical education. Current areas of focus include the emergence of third space educators, dispositional change towards sustainability in sports cultures, and the development of practice theory and methods.
David is co-editor for the BSA Auto/Biography Review, and an editorial board member for the journals, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, Corpus Mundi, Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary and Societies. He is a member of the Scientific committee for The International Martial Arts and Combat Sports Scientific Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Within the school, David is vice chair of the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences Professoriate and is active in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision.
Research Publications
Discriminatory meme culture on football Twitter: Othering and racialisation through insensitive humour
Glynn, E., Brown, D. & Edwards, L., 25 Jan 2025, In: Media Watch. p. 1-32Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Using Critical Social Theory as Professional Learning to Develop Scholar—Practitioners in Physical Education: The Example of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
Brown, D. H. K. & Lloyd, R. G., 3 Feb 2024, In: Education Sciences. 14, 2, p. 160 1 p., 160.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why we need to re-envision the relationship between feminism and environmentalism in sport for a more sustainable sporting future
Beth, G. & Brown, D., 6 Apr 2023, Sport and Development.org: The International Platform on Sport and Development.Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players
Harris, M., Jones, C. & Brown, D., 2 Mar 2023, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 15, 5, p. 654-668 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities
Glynn, E. & Brown, D. H. K., 24 Nov 2022, In: Sport in Society. 26, 8, p. 1432-1454 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom
Ma, X., Jennings, G. & Brown, D., 10 Oct 2022, In: Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. p. 402-420Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sacred Imagery and the Sacralisation of Violence in the Martial Arts.
Brown, D., Jennings, G., Contreras Islas, D., Yun, J. & Dodd, S., Jul 2022, In: IM@GO: A Journal of the Social Imagery. 19, p. 35-66Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Alcohol use by Athletes: Hierarchy, status, and Reciprocity
Harris, M., Jones, C. & Brown, D., 21 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 47, 3, p. 277-300 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare
Pedrini, L., Brown, D. & Navarini, G., 29 Aug 2021, In: Ethnography. 22, 3, p. 311-333 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Beyond ttm and abc: A practice perspective on physical activity promotion for adolescent females from disadvantaged backgrounds
Hopkins, E., Bolton, N., Brown, D., Matthews, N. & Anderson, M., 18 Oct 2020, In: Societies. 10, 4, 80.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review