Football, Community and Social Inclusion

This special issue addresses the complex reality of community football organisations based within England, who are tackling major social issues, like social inclusion and health promotion. It outlines key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these issues through the vehicle of football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

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Daniel Parnell is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His primary research interests are in sport, health and management, and his current projects concern the role of sport as a vehicle for social change, health improvement evaluation and organisational development, with a specific focus on football. He has worked with a range of Premier League and Football League Clubs. Dave Richardson is the Director of the School of Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research tends to be qualitative in nature (including interviews, ethnographic techniques, action research) and represented through the utilisation of traditional qualitative analysis and/or the exploring the use of creative non-fiction narratives to capture and illuminate observations of culture and associated applied practice.