Michael Silk

Professor Michael Silk

  • u_msilk at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Professor of Sport, Culture and Society
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Biography

Michael Silk is a Professor in the Bournemouth University Business School. His intellectual contribution is interdisciplinary and focuses on the various relationships between sport & physical activity (physical culture), mediated spectacles, inequality and urban spaces. He provides thought leadership for, and impact upon, organisations in the media, sport, heritage sectors and on governments, policy makers and charities. He has received funding from the British Council, the ESRC, the AHRC, the British Academy, Sport England, Women Win, and the Jiangsu Provincial Government (PRC). His current research focusses on urban renewal, social inequalities and disability. He is currently an investigator on the AHRC funded project: Gendered re-presentations of disability: Equality, empowerment and marginalisation in Paralympic media (AH/T006684/1). Past projects as PI include: "Sex work in the context of sports mega events: Examining the impacts of Rio 2016" (ES/N018656/1) collaborating with colleagues in Kent, Toronto & UFRDJ (Brazil) and an AHRC funded project (AH/P003842/1) focussing on the representation and cultural legacy of the Paralympics with colleagues at Loughborough, Bath, Nottingham and Western Ontario...

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Good health and well-being

"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"

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Gender equality

"Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls"

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Reduced inequalities

"Reduce inequality within and among countries"

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Sustainable cities and communities

"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"

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Journal Articles

  • Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media 263 Emma Pullen and Michael Silk. New Media and Society, 27 (1), 263-280.
  • Manley, A., Silk, M., Wang, Y.W., Chung, C., Bailey, R., Craig, P., 2025. Navigating creative partnerships and cross-cultural collaboration: a case study between China and the UK. Cultural Trends, 34 (3), 307-325.
  • De Lisio, A., Silk, M., Hubbard, P., 2024. Contested Terrains: Mega-Event Securities and Everyday Practices of Governance. Social Sciences, 13 (7).
  • Manley, A., Silk, M., Chung, C., Wang, Y.W., Bailey, R., 2023. Chinese Perceptions of Overseas Cultural Heritage: Emotive Existential Authenticity, Exoticism and Experiential Tourism. Leisure Sciences, 45 (3), 240-261.
  • Chung, C., Manley, A., Wang, Y.W., Silk, M., Bailey, R., 2023. Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29 (3), 328-344.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2022. Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change: An Integrated Mixed Method Approach to Understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK. Television and New Media, 23 (4), 368-388.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Howe, P.D., Silva, C.F., 2021. Extraordinary normalcy, ableist rehabilitation, and sporting ablenationalism: The cultural (re)production of paralympic disability narratives. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38 (3), 209-217.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”. Communication and Sport, 8 (6), 715-737.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. Watching disability: UK audience perceptions of the Paralympics, equality and social change. European Journal of Communication, 35 (5), 469-483.
  • Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2020. Disability, Masculinity, Militarism: The Paralympics and the Cultural (Re-)production of the Para-athlete-soldier. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 13 (4), 444-461.
  • Jackson, D., Trevisan, F., Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2020. Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship. Communication and Sport, 8 (4-5), 435-451.
  • Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2020. Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic. Cultural Studies, 34 (3), 466-488.
  • Manley, A., Silk, M., 2019. Remembering the City: Changing Conceptions of Community in Urban China. City and Community, 18 (4), 1240-1266.
  • De Lisio, A., Hubbard, P., Silk, M., 2019. Economies of (Alleged) Deviance: Sex Work and the Sport Mega-Event. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 16 (2), 179-189.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Scullion, R., 2019. Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability. Media Culture and Society, 41 (4), 465-481.
  • De Martini Ugolotti, N., Silk, M., 2018. Parkour, counter-conducts and the government of difference in post-industrial Turin. City, 22 (5-6), 763-781.
  • Scullion, R., Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2018. Producing the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the cultural politics of the hyper-visibility of disability. Media, Culture and Society.
  • Andrews, D.L., Silk, M.L., 2018. Sport and Neoliberalism: An Affective-Ideological Articulation. Journal of Popular Culture, 51 (2), 511-533.
  • Waldman, D., Silk, M., Andrews, D.L., 2017. Cloning colonialism: Residential development, transnational aspiration, and the complexities of postcolonial India. Geoforum, 82, 180-188.
  • Silk, M., Caudwell, J., Gibson, H., 2017. Views on leisure studies: pasts, presents & future possibilities? Leisure Studies, 36 (2), 153-162.
  • Silk, M., Millington, B., Rich, E., Bush, A., 2016. (Re-)thinking digital leisure. Leisure Studies, 35 (6), 712-723.
  • Silk, M., 2015. ‘Isles of Wonder’: performing the mythopoeia of utopic multi-ethnic Britain. Media Culture and Society, 37 (1), 68-84.
  • Silk, M., Francombe-Webb, J., Rich, E., Merchant, S., 2015. On the transgressive possibilities of physical pedagogic practices. Qualitative Inquiry.
  • Francombe-Webb, J., Silk, M., 2015. Young girls embodied experiences of femininity and social class. Sociology.
  • Silk, M., Francombe, J., Andrews, D.L., 2014. Slowing the social sciences of sport: on the possibilities of physical culture. Sport in Society, 17 (10).
  • Silk, M., Francombe-Webb, J., Andrews, D.L., 2014. The corporate constitution of national culture: the mythopoeia of 1966. Continuum.
  • Silk, M., 2014. The London 2012 Olympics: The cultural politics of urban regeneration. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1 (2), 273-293.
  • Manley, A., Silk, M., 2014. Liquid London: Sporting spectacle, britishness and ban-optic surveillance. Surveillance and Society, 11 (4), 360-376.
  • Andrews, D.L., Batts, C., Silk, M., 2014. Sport, glocalization and the new Indian middle class. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 (3), 259-276.
  • Silk, M., Francombe, J., Andrews, D.L., 2014. Slowing the social sciences of sport: on the possibilities of physical culture. Sport in Society.
  • Andrews, D.L., Silk, M., Francombe, J., Bush, A., 2013. McKinesiology. Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 35 (5), 335-356.
  • Bush, A., Silk, M., Porter, J., Howe, P.D., 2013. Disability [sport] and discourse: Stories within the Paralympic legacy. Reflective Practice, 14 (5).
  • Bush, A.J., Silk, M.L., 2012. Politics, power & the podium: Coaching for Paralympic performance. Reflective Practice, 13 (3).
  • Silk, M., Manley, A., 2012. Globalization, urbanization & sporting spectacle in Pacific Asia: Places, peoples & pastness. Sociology of Sport Journal, 29 (4), 455-484.
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2011. (Re)Presenting Baltimore: Place, Policy, Politics, and Cultural Pedagogy. Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 33 (5).
  • Silk, M., 2011. Towards a sociological analysis of london 2012. Sociology, 45 (5), 733-748.
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2011. Toward a physical cultural studies. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (1), 4-35.
  • Andrews, D.L., Silk, M.L., 2011. Physical cultural studies: Engendering a productive dialogue. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (1), 1-3.
  • Silk, M., Francombe, J.. The Biggest Loser: the Discursive Constitution of Fatness. Interactions: studies in communication and culture, 1 (3).
  • Bush, A., Silk, M., 2010. Towards an evolving critical consciousness in coaching research: The physical pedagogic bricolage. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 5 (4), 551-565.
  • Andrews, D.L., Silk, M.L., 2010. Basketball's ghettocentric logic. American Behavioral Scientist, 53 (11), 1626-1644.
  • Amis, J., Silk, M.L., 2010. Transnational organization and symbolic production: Creating and managing a global brand. Consumption Markets and Culture, 13 (2), 159-179.
  • Silk, M., 2010. Postcards from pigtown. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 10 (2).
  • Silk, M.L., Bush, A., Andrews, D.L., 2010. Contingent intellectual amateurism, or, the problem with evidence-based research. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 34 (1), 105-128.
  • Bush, A., Silk, M.. Towards an evolving critical consciousness in coaching research: The physical pedagogic bricolage. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 5 (4).
  • Falcous, M., Silk, M.. Olympic bidding, multicultural nationalism, terror, and the epistemological violence of making Britain proud. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 10 (2).
  • Silk, M.L., 2008. Mow my lawn. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 8 (4).
  • Amis, J.M., Silk, M.L., 2008. The philosophy and politics of quality in qualitative organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 11 (3), 456-480.
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2008. Managing Memphis: Governance and regulation in sterile spaces of play. Social Identities, 14 (3).
  • Silk, M., Schultz, J., Bracey, B., 2008. From mice to men: Miracle, mythology and the 'Magic Kingdom'. Sport in Society, 11 (2-3).
  • King-White, R., Silk, M., Andrews, D.. Revisiting the networked production of the 2003 Little League World Series: Narrative of American Innocence. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 4 (3).
  • Silk, M.L., 2007. Come downtown & play. Leisure Studies, 26 (3).
  • Falcous, M., Silk, M., 2006. Global regimes, local agendas: Sport, resistance and the mediation of dissent. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41 (3-4).
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2006. The fittest city in America. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 30 (3), 315-327.
  • Zhang, T., Silk, M.L., 2006. Recentering Beijing: Sport, space, and subjectivities. Sociology of Sport Journal, 23 (4), 438-459.
  • Silk, M., Amis, J., 2005. Sport tourism, cityscapes and cultural politics. Sport in Society, 8 (2), 280-301.
  • Silk, M., Falcous, M., 2005. One day in september/a week in february: Mobilizing American (sporting) nationalisms. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22 (4), 447-471.
  • Friedman, M.T., Silk, M.L., 2005. Expressing Fenway: Managing and marketing heritage within the global sports marketplace. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 1 (1-2).
  • Amis, J., Silk, M., 2005. Rupture: Promoting critical and innovative approaches to the study of sport management. Journal of Sport Management, 19 (4), 355-366.
  • Silk, M., Amis, J.. Bursting the tourist bubble: Sport and the spectacularisation of urban space. Sport in Society, 8 (2).
  • Falcous, M., Silk, M.. Manufacturing consent: Mediated sporting spectacle and cultural politics of the war on terror. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 1 (1).
  • Friedman, M.T., Andrews, D.L., Silk, M.L., 2004. Sport and the façade of redevelopment in the postindustrial city. Sociology of Sport Journal, 21 (2), 119-139.
  • Silk, M., 2004. A tale of two cities: The social production of sterile sporting space. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 28 (4), 349-378.
  • Moffat, A.C., Osselton, M.D., Widdop, B., Clarke, E.G.C.. Clarke's analysis of drugs and poisons. Pharmaceutical Pr.
  • Silk, M., 2002. 'Bangsa Malaysia': Global sport, the city and the mediated refurbishment of local identities. Media Culture and Society, 24 (6), 775-836.
  • Silk, M., 2001. Together we're one? The "place" of the nation in media representations of the 1998 Kuala Lumpur commonwealth games. Sociology of Sport Journal, 18 (3), 277-301.
  • Silk, M.L., Amis, J., 2000. Institutional pressures and the production of televised sport. Journal of Sport Management, 14 (4), 267-292.
  • Silk, M., 1999. Local/global flows and altered production practices: Narrative constructions at the 1995 Canada cup of soccer. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 34 (2).

Books

Chapters

  • Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2025. Valuing Disability: Economies of Visibility, Paralympic Cripvertising and the Disabled Body Politic. Sport Advertising and Global Promotional Culture Identities Commodities Spaces and Spectacles.
  • Silk, M., Pullen, E., Jackson, D., 2021. Communication, sport, disability, and the (able)national. In: Butterworth, M., eds. Communication and Sport. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Silk, M., 2021. Invoking the Other: Allegory in Theory, from Demetrius to de Man. Allegory Studies Contemporary Perspectives.
  • Silk, M., 2017. Sporting spectacle, 9/11 and the reconstitution of the American nation. Sport and National Identities Globalization and Conflict.
  • Silk, M.L., Mayoh, J., 2017. Praxis. Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies.
  • Silk, M., 2017. The phallus and the pariah: The cultural politics of the post-9/11 sporting body. Sport and Militarism Contemporary Global Perspectives.
  • De Lisio, A., Brêtas, T., Silk, M., Hubbard, P.. Shadow Host Economies: Sex Work and the Sport Mega-Event. Mega-Event Footprints: Past, Present and Future. Engenho.
  • Silk, M., Francombe-Webb, J., Andrews, D., 2015. Slowing the Social Sciences of Sport. In: Carlsson, B., eds. The Social Sciences of Sport: A Critical Analysis. London: Routledge.
  • Silk, M., Morgan, H., 2015. The Broadcasters Perspective. In: Parent, M., eds. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management. London: Routledge.
  • Caudwell, J., 2015. Sexualities and sport.
  • Silk, M.. Spectacles. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Amis, J., Silk, M.. The Philosophy & Politics of Quality in Organisational Research. In: Bell, E., Willmott, H., eds. Qualitative Research in Business and Management. London: Sage.
  • Amis, J., Silk, M.L., 2014. Transnational organization and symbolic production: Creating and managing a global brand. Brands Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
  • Silk, M., 2014. Neoliberalism and sports mega-events. Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega Events Concepts and Cases.
  • Silk, M.. Sport mega-events and neoliberalism. Leveraging Legacies from Sport-Mega Events. Palgrave-MacMilllan.
  • Bush, A., Silk, M.. Politics, Power and the Podium: Coaching for Paralympic Performance. In: Lee, S., Dixon, M., Ghaye, T., eds. Coaching for Performance: Realising the Olympic Dream. Routledge.
  • Silk, M.L., 2013. Cities and the cultural politics of sterile sporting space. A Companion to Sport.
  • Silk, M.. The Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space. In: Andrews, D., eds. The Blackwell Companion to Sport. Blackwell.
  • Silk, M.. Postcards from Pigtown. Autoethnography. Sage.
  • Rick, O., Andrews, D., Silk, M.. Liquid Beckham. Sports Heroes, Media & Celebrity Culture. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2012. Sport and the neoliberal conjuncture: Complicating the consensus. Sport and Neoliberalism Politics Consumption and Culture.
  • Francombe, J.M., Silk, M.L., 2012. Pedagogies of fat: The social currency of slenderness. Sport and Neoliberalism Politics Consumption and Culture.
  • Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2012. The governance of the neoliberal sporting city. Sport and Neoliberalism Politics Consumption and Culture.
  • White, R., Silk, M.L., Andrews, D.L., 2012. The little league world series: Spectacle of youthful innocence or spectre of the new right? Youth Culture and Sport Identity Power and Politics.
  • Silk, M., 2012. Globalization and Sport. Sports Around the World History Culture and Practice Volume 1 General Topics Africa Asia Middle East and Oceania Volume 2 British Isles and Europe Volume 3 Latin America and North America Volume 4 Olympic Medalists and Winners and Champions of Major World Sporting Events.
  • Silk, M.. Sport & Globalisation. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, Practice. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • Silk, M.. Media Sport. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, Practice. ABC-Clio.
  • Silk, M.. 'All these years of hurt': Culture, Pedagogy and 1966 as a Site of National Myth. Turning Points in Sport History. Palgrave-MacMilllan.
  • Andrews, D., Mower, R., Silk, M.. Ghettocentricism and the Essentialized Black Male Athlete. In: Leonard, D., eds. Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports.. New York: Roman & Littlefield.
  • Silk, M.. Sporting Spectacle and the Post 9/11 Patriarchal Body Politic. The Day that Changed Everything: The Impact of 9/11 on the Media, Arts and Entertainment. New York: Palgrave-MacMilllan.
  • Andrews, D., Schultz, J., Silk, M.. The Olympics and Terrorism. The Politics of the Olympics. London: Routledge.
  • Silk, M., Andrews, D.. Beyond a Boundary: Sport, Transnational Advertising and the Reimagining of National Culture. In: Karen, D., eds. The Sport & Society Reader. London: Routledge.
  • Silk, M.. Sport Stadia. Encyclopaedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Amis, J., Silk, M.. Rupture: Promoting Critical and Innovative Approaches to the Study of Sport Management. In: Nauright, J., eds. The New Sport Management Reader. FIT.
  • Friedman, M., Silk, M.. Expressing Fenway: Managing and Marketing Heritage within the Global Sports Marketplace. In: Nauright, J., eds. The New Sport Management Reader. FIT.
  • Amis, J., Silk, M., Mower, R.. (Michael) Power, Gendered Subjectivities and Filmic Representation: Brand Strategy and Guinness' Critical Assignment in Africa. In: Wenner, L., Jackson, S.J., eds. Sport, Beer & Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Andrews, D.L., Silk, M., Fitter, R., 2008. Physical culture and the polarised American metropolis. Sport and Society A Student Introduction Second Edition.
  • White, R., Silk, M., Andrews, D.. The 2003 LLWS: Spectacle of Youthful Innocence or Spectre of the New Right? In: Giardina, M., Donnelly, M., eds. Youth Culture & Sport: Identity, Power & Politics. London: Routledge.
  • Andrews, D., Silk, M., Pitter, R.. Sport and the Polarized American City. Sport in Society. London: Sage.
  • Andrews, D., Silk, M.. Basketball, politique et culture de rue. In: Archambaud, F., Artiaga, L., Bosc, G., eds. Double jeu: Histoire du basketball entre France et Ameriques. Paris: France: Vuibert.
  • Jackson, S., Scherer, J., Silk, M.. Globalisation and Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In: Collins, C., Jackson, S., eds. Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand Society. Melbourne: Thomson-Nelson.
  • Silk, M., Amis, J.. Bursting the Tourist Bubble: Sport and the Spectacularization of Urban Space. In: Gibson, H., eds. Sport Tourism: Paradigms and Theories. London: Frank Cass.
  • Silk, M., Bracey, B., Falcous, M.. Performing America's Past: Cold War Fantasies in a Perpetual State of War. In: Wagg, S., Andrews, D., eds. The New Cold War. London: Routledge.
  • Silk, M., Andrews, D., Cole, C.L.. Corporate Nationalism(s): The Spatial Dimensions of Sporting Capital. In: Silk, M., Andrews, D., Cole, C.L., eds. Corporate Nationalisms: Sport, Cultural Identity & Transnational Marketing. Oxford: Berg.
  • Slack, T., Silk, M., Hong, F.. Cultural Contradictions / Contradicting Cultures: Transnational Corporatism and the Penetration of the Chinese Market. In: Silk, M., Andrews, D., Cole, C.L., eds. Corporate Nationalism(s): Sport, Cultural Identity and Transnational Marketing. Oxford: Berg.
  • Silk, M., Andrews, D.. The Spatial Logics of Global Sponsorship: Corporate Capital, Cola Wars and Cricket. In: Amis, J., Cornwell, B., eds. Global Sport Sponsorship: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Oxford: Berg.
  • Silk, M., Mason, D., Andrews, D.. Encountering the Field: Qualitative Methods for Sports Studies. In: Silk, M., Mason, D., Andrews, D., eds. Qualitative Methods for Sports Studies. Oxford: Berg.
  • Silk, M.. Sporting Ethnography: Philosophy, Methodology & Reflection. In: Silk, M., Mason, D., Andrews, D., eds. Qualitative Methods for Sports Studies. Oxford: Berg.
  • Silk, M., Chumley, E.. Memphis United: Diasporic Identities, S(t)imulated Spaces and Consumption Economies. Manchester United: Sporting Diaspora and Simulated Consumption. London: Routledge.
  • Andrews, D., Silk, M.. Global Gaming: Cultural Toyotism, Transnational Corporatism and Sport. In: Jackson, S.J., Andrews, D., eds. Sport, Culture & Advertising: Identities, Commodities and the Politics of Representation. London: Routledge.
  • Silk, M.. Televised Sport Production: Economic Boundaries of Action in a Global Media Age. The Commercialization of Sport. London: Frank Cass.
  • Silk, M., Slack, T., Amis, J.. Bread, Butter & Gravy: An Institutional Approach to Televised Sport Production. A Reader in Sport, Culture and the Media. Open University Press.

Conferences

  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. Paralympic broadcasting and social change: An integrated mixed-method approach to understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK. In: IAMCR Annual Conference 21/07/2020 Tampere, Finland.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2020. Beyond the shadow of the supercrip: A new framework for understanding the gendered cultural (re)production of Paralympic media narratives. In: Sport, Media and Gender 2020 Annual Conference 15/01/2020 University of Northumbria, London campus..
  • Jackson, D., Pullen, E., Silk, M., 2019. “(Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Sports journalism, marginal bodies and the 'able-disabled'. In: Future of Journalism Conference 12/09/2019 Cardiff.
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., 2019. “(Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the 'able-disabled'. In: International Communication Association annual conference 24/05/2019 Washington DC.
  • Munteanu, D., Silk, M., Hubbard, P., 2018. Silk, M., Hubbard, P., & Munteanu, D. G. (2018). ‘Re-framing Rio: The Re appropriation of Utopic National Fantasies’. Brazilian Studies Association Conference (BRASA), 14th International Conference, 25-28 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Silk, M., Hubbard, P., & Munteanu, D. G. (2018). ‘Re-framing Rio: The Re appropriation of Utopic National Fantasies’. Brazilian Studies Association Conference (BRASA), 14th International Conference, 25-28 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 25/07/2018 Silk, M., Hubbard, P., & Munteanu, D. G. (2018). ‘Re-framing Rio: The Re appropriation of Utopic National Fantasies’. Brazilian Studies Association Conference (BRASA), 14th International Conference, 25-28 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil..
  • Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Scullion, R., 2018. Giving disability the ‘Hollywood treatment’: Channel 4 and the broadcasting of the Paralympic Games. In: International Communications Association 22/05/2018 Prauge.
  • De Martini Ugolotti, N., Silk, M., 2017. Post-Migrant youth, parkour and the (contested) containment of difference in urban spaces of leisure. In: Leisure Studies Association 04/07/2017 Leeds.
  • De Lisio, A., Silk, M., Hubbard, P., Bretas, T., 2017. Sex Work in the Context of 2016 Olympic Host Communities. In: London, Rio, Tokyo Olympic Symposium 08/06/2017 Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • Silk, M., Andrews, D., Waldman, D., 2017. Transnational Gentrification, the new Indian Middle-Class and the Socio/Spatial Creation of Cloned Cricket Communities. In: Leisure Studies Association 07/07/2015 Bournemouth.
  • Silk, M., Andrews, D., 2014. The Bank, the Bike & the Mayor: Cycling, (the) Capital & Civility. In: Royal Geogrpahic Society Annual Conference 27/08/2014 University College London.

Reports

Scholarly Editions

PhD Students

  • Bethany Cleeve
  • Haydn Morgan. Enhancing social inclusion, educational attainment and employability through Sport for Change: a realist evaluation
  • Devra Waldman (University of British Columbia, Canada). Men, Materials and Money: A multi-sited global ethnography of sport of sport focussed residential developments in India

Grants

  • Gendered re-presentations of disability: Equality, empowerment and marginalisation in Paralympic media (AH/T006684/1). (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 01 Jul 2020). Awarded
  • Re-presenting para-sport bodies: Disability & the cultural legacy of the Paralympics (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 01 Feb 2017). Awarded
  • Producing/Consuming ‘Romantic Scotland’: Exhibitions, Heritage, Nation & the Chinese Marke (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 01 Oct 2016). Awarded
  • Sex work in the context of sports mega events: Examining the impacts of Rio 2016 (Economic and Social Research Council, 01 Sep 2016). Awarded
  • British Council: Sport & Social Transformation in Brazil (British Council, 01 Mar 2015). Awarded
  • BRIC Visitors to British Museums (British Council, 01 Feb 2015). Awarded
  • Suzhou Heritage & Leisure Management (Jiangsu Provincial Government (PRC), 01 Jun 2013). Awarded
  • Three: 30 Club: Enhancing Student Participation (Sport England, 01 May 2011). Awarded
  • Three: 30 Club: Enhancing Student Participation (Sport England, 01 May 2011). Awarded
  • Using Sport to Address Gender Based Violence (Women Win, 01 Dec 2010). Awarded
  • The Symbolic Orchestration of Spectacularized Tourist Space (British Academy, 01 May 2009). Awarded

External Responsibilities

  • Leisure Studies Journal, Guest Editor (2015-2016)
  • Communication & Sport, Editorial Board Member (2012-)
  • Qualitative Research in Sport & Exercise, Editorial Board Member (2011-)
  • Leisure Studies, Editorial Board Member (2010-)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Grant Reviewer (2010-)
  • Journal of Sport & Tourism, Editorial Board Member (2006-)
  • Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Editorial Board Member (2004-)

Internal Responsibilities

  • Deputy Dean (Research & Professional Practice), Faculty of Management
  • Director, Sport & Physical Activity Research Centre (SPARC)
  • Head of Research & Professional Practice, Department for Sport & Physical Activity

Conference Presentations

  • IPC VISTA, Re-presenting parasport bodies: Disability and the cultural legacy of the Paralympics, 04 Sep 2019, Amstedam
  • Arts, Materiality and Representation Conference, Producing/Consuming 'Romantic Scotland' at Nanjing Museum: the Role of State Museums, 01 Jun 2018, British Museum
  • Arts, Materiality and Representation Conference, Utilising Large Sites and Historic Buildings for Tourism Promotion: (Re)Presenting Narratives of Nation Through the Arts, 01 Jun 2018, British Museum
  • Different Bodies: Self-Representation, Disability and the Media, Representing para-bodies: The mediation between production and consumption in Paralympic broadcasting, 23 Jun 2017, University of Westminster
  • Fudan University Urban Development Institute, Producing and Consuming Narratives of Nation: Using Exhibitions and Events as Tools for Placemaking, 14 Jun 2017, Shanghai
  • International Workshop on Heritage Protection and Inbound Tourism, (Digital) City Branding, the Sensual and Overseas Visitor Perceptions, 25 Apr 2017, Master of Nets Garden, Suzhou, China

Qualifications

  • PhD in Sociology of Sport (University of Otago, 2000)
  • MA in Physical Education & Recreation (University of Alberta, 1996)
  • BA (Hons) in Sport Studies (Southampton University (Chichester), 1994)

Honours

  • University of Bath Leadership in Teaching & Learning Award (University of Bath, 2013)
  • Doris W. Sands Excellence in Teaching Award (University of Maryland, 2007)
  • Best Paper Award; Sociology of Sport Journal (North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2002)

Memberships

  • Leisure Studies Association, Member (2015-),
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