The Centre for Leisure & Sport Research (CLSR) is currently one of four Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) research units. It was established in 1997, in recognition of the international reputation of research in leisure and sport within LMU. The Centre also provides a wide range of services to local authorities, sports organisations, sport and leisure agencies and organisations in the private and public sectors.

The Centre for Leisure & Sport Research has produced several major reports which can be accessed by clicking the appropriate blue button:

Dance Action Zone Leeds - evaluation report

Part of the Game? - a report into racism in amateur football

Count Me In - the dimensions of Social Inclusion through Culture, Media & Sport
Count Me In - Executive Summary

Towards Gender Equity in Sports Management - report of the European Symposium on Gender Equity in the Management and Governance of Voluntary Sports organisations

Extracts from some recent Doctorate thesis are available by clicking the appropriate button:

'An evaluation of a residential weightloss camp programme for overweight and obese children' - Paul John Gately

'The Cultural Construction of Identities and Bodies at Mid-Life' - Dr Sharon Wray

'Creatine supplementation: The effects of an acute loading with or without carbohydrates and subsequent maintenance supplementation on muscle metabolites and anaerobic performance' - Apostolos S. Theodorou

'Leisure-time physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and the metabolic cardiovascular syndrome in middle-aged men' - Dr Sean Carroll

'Motherwork-Motherleisure: Analysing young mothers' leisure lifestyles in the context of difference' - Dr Rebecca Watson

NB - the following abstracts are in .pdf format and require Acrobat reader. Click here to download Acrobat if you do not already have it installed on your computer

'The Postmodernity of the Leisure Life-World of the Lads' - Dr Tony Blackshaw

'Raising the Roof - Leisure and the home-based worker' - Dr Jon Dart

'The Role of the Commonwealth Games in extending women's opportunities for international sports competition: the case of lawn bowls' - Dr Rebecca Kent

'A biomechanical and physiological evaluation of combined Uphill-Downhill Sprint Running Training' - Dr. Giorgos Paradisis

'Physicality and Gender: Our Body of Knowledge' - Dr Elizabeth Smears