Bradley Sharples (PhD student)
Thesis title: Inter-national Inequality in Lower-Order Major Sporting Events: Lessons Learned from the Event-led Development of the Taipei 2017 Universiade and the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
PhD Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Email: s1635252@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Current PhD researcher investigating the relationship between inter-national inequality and event-led development. Currently analysing the Taipei 2017 Universiade and the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Originally from Bolton, Greater Manchester. I have resided in Edinburgh since 2016.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Sport and Recreation Management - The University of Edinburgh - 2016-2020
- MSc Sport Policy, Management, and International Development - The University of Edinburgh - 2020-2021
Responsibilities & affiliations
Undergraduate teaching
BSc Sport and Recreation Management
- The Sport Industry
- Sport and Society
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Sport Policy, Management, and International Development
- Sport and Culture Industry
Research summary
Some research interests include:
- Sport mega-event studies
- Sport and inequality
- Sport and development
- Sport and the environment
- Sport, geopolitics, and diplomacy
- The Capability Approach
- World-systems Theory
Conference details
- Sharples, B. (2024). The Political Contestations of Lower-Order Major Sporting Events. Presented at the PSA Sport and Politics Annual Conference 2024. March 2024.
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Sharples, B. (2023). Inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games: the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Presented at the PyeongChang International Conference for Olympic Studies and Research Centres 2023 (PICOSRC 2023). November 2023. Awarded the PICOSRC 2023 Young Scholars’ Best Paper Award.
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Sharples, B. (2023). The Environmental Sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Presented at the inaugural meeting of the Scottish Centre for Olympic Research and Education (SCORE). March 2023.
- Sharples, B. (2024). A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902241252451
- Sharples, B. (2022). Building community and developing a sense of belonging through PhD internships. Teaching Matters Blog. June 2022. Available at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/building-community-and-developing-a-sense-of-belonging-through-phd-internships/
- Sharples, B; and Ma, Y. (2022). Welcome to May-June Learning and Teaching Enhancement Theme: Building Community. Teaching Matters Blog. May 2022. Available at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/welcome-to-may-june-learning-and-teaching-enhancement-theme-building-community/
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Kett, N; Ma, Y; and Sharples, B. (2022). Building community and developing a sense of belonging through PhD internships. Presented at the Glasgow 2022 QAA Scotland Enhancement Conference. June 2022.
- Sharples, B. (2022). School of Health in Social Science (HISS) Student Disability Support Report 2022. Delivered to HISS. July 2022.
- Sharples, B. (2018). How Spartans Community Football Academy impacts the youth of local primary schools. Delivered to SCFA. May 2018.