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Name
Jonathan Long

Position
Professor, Carnegie Research Institute

Email
j.a.long@leedsmet.ac.uk

Qualifications
BSc (Soc. Sci.) Human Geography, Bristol, 1974.
MA Urban Geography, McMaster, 1976.
PhD Leisure Lifestyles and Social Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, 1998.

Biography
Initially trained as a geographer, Jonathan has now been researching in the field of leisure studies for 30 years. Prior to joining Leeds Metropolitan University, he was Research Director at the Tourism and Recreation Research Unit and the Centre for Leisure Research in Edinburgh. His experience embraces all stages of the research process from design to dissemination and his research utilises both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. He has extensive experience of managing external contracts having now directed or jointly directed some fifty projects. In the past he has also chaired the management committee of Theatre Workshop (Edinburgh) and been on the marketing and promotion working group for Jazz Platform. Jonathan was also a founding member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Leisure Studies, and has been its Book Reviews Editor and Managing Editor. He is an Academician of the Academy for Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and a member of the Accreditation Panel for the Racial Equality Standard for Professional Football Clubs.

Main responsibilities
Conducting, administering, teaching and supervising research

Current Teaching
Various, but mainly BA Leisure and Sport Studies and MA Sport, Leisure and Equity, dealing with policy, ethnicity and research methods.

Research interests 
Jonathan's major research interests centre around leisure policies and practices related to social change and issues of social justice. The success of a study to assess the nature and extent of racism in rugby league led to subsequent studies of local league cricket and grass roots football. These were in turn followed by an evaluation for Sporting Equals of the progress of national sports organisations in implementing racial equality policies. Other research includes a longstanding interest in ageing, an evaluation of a diversionary scheme introducing at risk youth to leisure and sports activities, research for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on social inclusion, and a study for the Central Council of Physical Recreation of social capital generated by national governing bodies of sport.  He has also been working with colleagues evaluating physical activity initiatives.  Other clients include various local authorities, Sport England, the Heritage Lottery Fund (projects on partnership funding and skills development), Scottish Natural Heritage (lifestyles, needs and outdoor recreation), and Thames Gateway Partnership (skills for the millennium).

Selected Recent Publications
Long, J. (2008) Ambiguities in the Relationship Between Sport and Social Capital.  In M Collins, K Holmes & A Slater (eds) Sport, Leisure, Culture and Social Capital: Discourse and Practice, LSA Publication No. 100, p1-15.  Eastbourne: LSA, ISBN 978 1 905369 11 9

Long, J. (2008) Sport’s Ambiguous Relationship with Social Capital: the contribution of national governing bodies of sport.  In M Nicholson & R Hoye (eds) Sport and Social Capital.  London: Butterworth-Heinemann, p207-232

Welch, M. &  Long, J. (2007) Beyond the Bottom Line: an analysis of the social, technical and intellectual capital provided by National Governing Bodies of Sport.  London, CCPR  http://www.ccpr.org.uk/dyncat.cfm?catid=4262

Long, J. (2007) Researching Leisure, Sport and Tourism: The Essential Guide.  London, Sage.

Spracklen, K., Hylton, K. & Long, J. (2006) Managing and Monitoring Equality and Diversity in UK Sport: an evaluation of the sporting equals racial equality standard and its impact on organizational change.  Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 30 (3) 289-305.

Long, J. & Robinson, P. (2006) Football’s ability to combat social exclusion.  Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation. 2 (1) 55-82.

Long, J. & Bramham, P. (2006) Joining-up Policy Discourses and Fragmented Practices: the precarious contribution of cultural projects to social inclusion? Policy & Politics, 34 (1) 133-151.

Long, J., Robinson, P. & Spracklen, K. (2005) Promoting racial equality within sports organizations.  Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 29 (1) 41-59.

Blackshaw, T & Long, J. (2005) What’s the Big Idea? A critical exploration of the concept of social capital and its incorporation into leisure policy discourse, Leisure Studies, 24 (3) 239-258.

Long, J. & McNamee, M. (2004) On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalisations in Sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 39 (4): 405-420.