Dr Daniel Bloyce

Deputy Head of Department

Deputy Head of Department (Chester), Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Exercise, Co-Director of Chester Centre for Research into Sport and Society.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Overview

Daniel joined the Department in September 1995 and has been Deputy Head on the Chester campus since 2004. Apart from his duties as Deputy Head, Daniel is also a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise. He is also Co-Editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy, he is also on the Editorial Board for the Graduate Journal of Social Science.

Daniel is an expert panel member for the British Baseball Hall of Fame. He has acted as an external advisor at many institutions, both as an examiner and as an expert on validation committees, and he is currently external examiner at Liverpool Hope University.

Teaching

Daniel teaches on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

Introduction to the Sociology of Sport and Exercise (Year 1)
Contemporary Issues in Sport (Year 2)
Research Methods in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise (Year 2)
Issues in Sports Development and Policy (Year 3)
Issues in Sport, Health and Exercise (Year 3)
Emergence and Development of Modern Sport (MSc)
Research Methods (MSc)
Sociology of Sports Development and Sports Policy (MSc)

Daniel also supervises dissertation students at undergraduate and masters level specialising in the Sociology of Sport.

PhD Supervision

Steven Cock - The emergence and development of competitive swimming
Chris Platts - Education and Welfare Professions in Professional Football Academies and Centres of Excellence in England and Wales
Katie Powell - The Target Wellbeing programme in Ellesmere Port as a vehicle for social change: A sociological analysis of public health policy and practice

Rebecca Mead - Enhancing health improvement provision in Ellesmere Port: A sociological analysis of the role of providers and residents in creating pathways towards better health

Research

Sport policy and development
Sociology of health and physical activity
Figurational sociology and sociological theory
The globalization of sport (baseball)
The sportization of pastimes

Research Income

£19,410	(2009) Sponsorship of PhD project ‘Enhancing health improvement provision in Ellesmere Port: A sociological analysis of the role of providers and residents in creating pathways towards better health', Western Cheshire Primary Care Trust (with Professor Miranda Thurston, University of Chester)
£19,410	(2008) Sponsorship of PhD project ‘The Target Wellbeing programme in Ellesmere Port as a vehicle for social change: A sociological analysis of public health policy and practice', Western Cheshire Primary Care Trust (with Professor Miranda Thurston, University of Chester)

Published work

Refereed Articles (recent selection)

Bloyce, D., Liston, K, Platts, C. and Smith, A. (in press). ‘Pride of the Lions?': A Figurational Analysis of British Newspaper Coverage of the 2005 British Lions Rugby Union Tour of New Zealand, Sport in Society.

Bloyce, D., Smith, A., Mead, R. and Morris, J. (2008). ‘Playing the Game (Plan)': A Figurational Analysis of Organizational Change in Sports Development in England, European Sport Management Quarterly, 8, (4), 359-378.

Bloyce, D. and Murphy, P. (2008). Baseball in England: A case of prolonged cultural resistance, Journal of Historical Sociology, 21 (1), 120-142.

Bloyce, D. (2008). ‘Glorious Rounders': the American Baseball Invasion of England in Two World Wars - Unappealing American Exceptionalism, International Journal of the History of Sport, 25, (4), 387 - 405.

Bloyce, D and Murphy, P. (2008). Sports Administration on the hoof: The three points for a win ‘experiment' in English Soccer, Soccer and Society, 9 (8), 14-27.

Bloyce, D. and Murphy, P. (2007). Involvement and detachment, from principles to practice: A critical reassessment of The Established and the Outsiders, Irish Journal of Sociology, 16 (1), 3-21.

Bloyce, D. (2007). John Moores and the Professional Baseball Leagues in England, Sport in History, 27 (1), 64-87.

Bloyce, D and Murphy, P. (2006). The Globalisation of ‘Bad' Management Practice: The three points for a win reform in soccer, International Review of Modern Sociology, 32 (2), 277-91.

Bloyce, D. (2006). ‘A Very Peculiar Practice: The London Baseball League, 1906 - 1911'. Nine. A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. 14(2), 118-128.

Bloyce, D (2005). ‘‘That's Your Way of Playing Rounders, Isn't It'? The Response of the English Press to American Baseball Tours to England, 1874-1924', Sporting Traditions, 22 (1), 81-98.

Green, K. Liston, K. Smith, A. & Bloyce, D. (2005). ‘Violence, Competition and the Emergence and Development of Modern Sports: Reflections on the Stokvis-Malcolm debate', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40(1), 119-123.

Bloyce, D. (2004). ‘Research is a Messy Process: A Case-Study of a Figurational Sociology Approach to Conventional Issues in Social Science Research Methods', The Graduate Journal of Social Science. 1 (1), 144-176.

Bloyce, D. (1997). ‘Just Not Cricket: Baseball in England 1874 - 1900', The International Journal of the History of Sport, 14 (2), 207-218.

Books

Bloyce, D. and Smith, A. (2010). Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Chapters

Bloyce, D. (2004) Baseball: Myths and Modernization. In E. Dunning, D. Malcolm and I. Waddington (Eds.) Sport Histories: Figurational Studies in the Development of Modern Sport. London: Routledge.

Bloyce, D. (2000). The English response to America's national pastime: American baseball tours to England. In J. Tolleneer and R. Renson (Eds.) Old borders, new borders, no borders. Sport and physical education in a period of change. Oxford: Meyer & Meyer.

Recent Conference Papers

Bloyce, D., Lovett, E. and Mead, R. (2009) Active Citizenship? A Sociological analysis of the motivations behind volunteering in sport, Paper presented at the 14th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Oslo, Norway.

Bloyce, D. and Smith, A. (2009) Legacy Gigantism: The Politics and Policy of the London 2012 Olympic Bid, Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Bloyce, D., Platts, C. Liston, K. and Smith, A. (2007) ‘Pride of the Lions?': A Figurational Analysis of British Newspaper Coverage of the 2005 British Lions Rugby Union Tour of New Zealand, Paper presented at the 4th World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bloyce, D., Mead, R. and Morris, J. (2006) Playing the Game (Plan). A sociological analysis of Sports Development Officers, Paper presented at the 12th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Lausanne, Switzerland.