Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His research interests include the domestic and international policy processes for sport.

He has authored or edited twenty books and over fifty journal articles. His most recent books include Managing Elite Sport Systems (edited with Svein Andersen and Lars Tore Ronglan, Routledge 2015), Sport Policy in Britain (with Iain Lindsey, Routledge 2012) and a third edition of Sport and Society (edited with Dominic Malcolm, SAGE 2015).

Barrie has undertaken consultancy projects for various UK government departments, UK Sport, UNESCO, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the European Union. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. Following a Politics degree at Nottingham University, Dominic studied for a Masters in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Leicester. On completion of the Masters he was appointed Research Associate in the Centre for Research into Sport and Society, where he subsequently became Lecturer and Director of Masters Programmes. He completed his PhD at Leicester in December 2004.

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT
Sport and Social Theory - Dominic Malcolm
Power, Politics and Sport - Barrie Houlihan
History and Sport - Martin Polley and Fiona Skillen
PART TWO: STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT
Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure - Michael F. Collins
Lifestyle Sport - Belinda Wheaton
Women, Sport and Gender Inequity - Ruth Jeanes and Laura Hills
Sport and Health - Parissa Safai and Dominic Malcolm
Sport for Development - Richard Giulianotti
Sport and Disability - Nigel Thomas and Andy Smith
The Politics of ¿Race¿ and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom - Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald
Physical Culture and the Polarised American Metropolis - David Andrews, Mike Silk and Robert Pitter
PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALISATION
The Business of Sport - Leigh Robinson
Sport and the Media - Richard Haynes
Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations - John Amis and Trevor Slack
Doping and Sport - Barrie Houlihan
The Relationship between Sport and Tourism - Mike Weed and Guy Jackson
The Olympic Games: Winners and Losers - Holger Preuss
Fandom - Kevin Dixon
Sport Governance - Arnout Geeraert
PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON AND CONTEXT
Sport in North America: The United States and Canada - Trevor Slack and Milena Parent
Sport in the Asia-Pacific region - Alan Bairner and Jung Woo Lee
Sport, the role of the European Union and the decline of the national state? - Ian P. Henry
An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World - Mahfoud Amara
Sport and Globalisation - Barrie Houlihan