Sport and Social Exclusion: Second Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415568807)

Mike Collins was a Senior Lecturer in Recreation Management at Loughborough University for over ten years before retiring. Prior to this, he was Head of Research Strategy and Planning at the Sports Council from its founding, and active in the Council of Europe and what is now the Countryside Recreation Network. He edited Examining Sports Development (Routledge, 2008). He is currently Professor of Sports Development at the University of Gloucestershire, and still active in the new Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity.

Tess Kay lectured at Loughborough and researched in women and youth sport; edited Fathering through Sport and Leisure ( Routledge, 2009), and is now Professor of Sport & Social Sciences at Brunel University, where she founded and directs the Centre for Sport Health and Wellbeing. She is co-authoring Localizing global sport for Development (2014, Bloomsbury)