Published work
Refereed Articles (recent selection)
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2011). ‘Still more of the same for the more able?’ Including young disabled people and pupils with special educational needs in extra-curricular physical education, Sport, Education and Society, 16, 503-22.
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2011). ‘To assist or not to assist?’ A study of teachers’ views of the roles of learning support assistants in the provision of inclusive physical education in England, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15, 835-49.
Smith, A., Thurston, M. and Green, K. (2011). Propinquity, sociability and excitement: exploring the normalisation of sensible drug use among 15-16-year-olds in north-west England and north-east Wales, Journal of Youth Studies, 14, 359-79.
Smith, A. and Leech, R. (2010). ‘Evidence. What evidence?’ Evidence-based policy-making and School Sport Partnerships in north-west England, International Journal of Sport Policy, 2, 327-45.
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2010). Inadequate and inappropriate? The assessment of young disabled people and pupils with special educational needs in National Curriculum Physical Education, European Physical Education Review, 16, 283-300.
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2010). Inclusive physical education? A study of the management of National Curriculum Physical Education and unplanned outcomes in England, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31, 291-305.
Platts, C. and Smith, A. (2010). ‘Money, money, money?’ The development of financial inequalities in English professional football, Soccer and Society, 11, 643-58.
Bloyce, D., Liston, K., Platts, C. and Smith, A. (2010). Pride of the Lions: media coverage of the 2005 Lions Tour, Sport in Society, 13, 448-69.
Green, K., Smith, A. and Thurston, M. (2009). ‘Busy doing nothing?’ Physical education teachers’ perceptions of young people’s participation in leisure-sport and physical activity, Sport, Education and Society, 14, 419-38.
Houlihan, B., Bloyce, D. and Smith, A. (2009). Developing the research agenda in sport policy, International Journal of Sport Policy, 1, 1-12.
Platts, C. and Smith, A. (2009). The education and welfare of young people in professional football academies in England: Some implications of the White Paper on Sport, International Journal of Sport Policy, 1, 323-39.
Smith, A., Green, K. and Thurston, M. (2009). ‘Activity choice’ and physical education in England and Wales, Sport, Education and Society, 14, 203-222.
Smith, A. and Platts, C. (2008). The Independent European Sport Review: Some policy issues and problems, Sport in Society, 9, 583-97.
Hanstad, D., Smith, A. and Waddington, I. (2008). The establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Study of the management of organizational change and unplanned outcomes, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 43, 249-71.
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, 359-78.
Smith, A., Thurston, M., Green, K. and Lamb, K. (2007). Young people’s participation in extra-curricular physical education: A study of 15-16 year-olds in North-West England and North-East Wales, European Physical Education Review, 13, 369-83.
Smith, A., Thurston, M., Green, K. and Lamb, K. (2007). Young people’s participation in National Curriculum Physical Education: A study of 15-16 year-olds in North-West England and North-East Wales, European Physical Education Review, 13, 165-94.
Smith, A. and Parr, M. (2007). Young people’s views on the nature and purpose of physical education: A sociological analysis, Sport, Education and Society, 12, 37-58.
Liston, K., Reacher, D., Smith, A. and Waddington, I. (2006). Managing pain and injury in non-elite rugby union and rugby league: A case study of players at a British university, Sport in Society, 9, 388-402.
Smith, A. and Thomas, N. (2006). Including pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in National Curriculum Physical Education: A brief review, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 21, 31-45.
Smith, A. and Green, K. (2005). The place of sport and physical activity in young people's lives and its implications for health: Some sociological comments, Journal of Youth Studies, 8, 24-53.
Green, K., Smith, A. and Roberts, K. (2005). Young people and lifelong participation in sport and physical activity: A sociological perspective on contemporary physical education programmes in England and Wales, Leisure Studies, 24, 27-43.
Green, K., Liston, K., Smith, A. and 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, 119-24.
Smith, A. and Thomas, N. (2005). The ‘inclusion’ of elite athletes with disabilities in the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games: An exploratory analysis of British newspaper coverage. Sport, Education and Society, 10, 49-68.
Books
Bloyce, D. and Smith, A. (2010). Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
Bloyce, D. and Smith, A. (2011). Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction. London: Routledge. (translated into Spanish)
Thomas, N. and Smith, A. (2009). Disability, Sport and Society: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
Waddington, I. and Smith, A. (2009). An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning? London: Routledge.
Chapters
Smith, A. and Haycock, D. (2011). Sport development and disability. In B. Houlihan and M. Green (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Sports Development. London: Routledge.
Smith, A. and Thomas, N. (2010). Inclusion, special educational needs, disability and physical education. In C. Weston (ed.). UEL Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education Reader. London: Sage
Smith, A. (2009). Disability and inclusion policy towards physical education and youth sport. In H. Fitzgerald (ed.) Disability and Youth Sport. London: Routledge.
Green, K., Smith, A., Thurston, M. and Lamb, K. (2007). Gender and secondary school National Curriculum Physical Education: Change alongside continuity. In I. Wellard (ed.) Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport. London: Routledge.
Smith, A. and Waddington, I. (2005). Sport in the community schemes for young people ‘at risk’: Do they work? The UK experience. In T. Hoikkala, P. Hakkarainen and S. Laine (Eds.) Beyond Health Literacy. Youth Cultures, Prevention and Policy. Helsinki: Youth Finnish Research Society.
Smith, A. and Thomas, N. (2005). Inclusion, special educational needs, disability and physical education. In K. Green and K. Hardman (Eds.). Physical Education: Essential Issues. London: Sage.
Green, K., Smith, A. and Roberts, K. (2005). Social class, young people, sport and physical education. In K. Green and K. Hardman (Eds.). Physical Education: Essential Issues. London: Sage.
Recent Conference Papers
Smith, A. (2011). Surviving the “treadmill of turmoil”: mental illness, shame, and emotion in professional sport. Invited Keynote Lecture at 10th International PhD Summer School, International Sociology of Sport Association, Copenhagen.
Smith, A. (2011). Theories of sport and exercise. Invited Keynote Lecture at 10th International PhD Summer School, International Sociology of Sport Association, Copenhagen.
Smith, A. (2010). The policy and politics of physical education and school sport: A case study of School Sport Partnerships in north-west England, Paper presented at the 17th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Smith, A. (2010). Young people, sport and leisure: a study of the sporting and leisure biographies of 15-16-year-olds in north-west England and north-east Wales, Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK.
Platts, C. and Smith, A. (2010). ‘We don’t need no education’: the views and experiences of young people in professional football Academies and Centres of Excellence, Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK
Smith, A. (2009) ‘We only smoke weed, drink beer and play sport when we need to’: sport and drug use in the leisure lives of young people, Paper presented at the 14th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Oslo, Norway.
Smith, A. and Leech, R. (2009) ‘Evidence. what evidence?’: A study of School Sport Partnerships in north-west England, Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2009) ‘Inclusion and National Curriculum Physical Education in England: a study of unplanned outcomes’, Paper presented at the 14th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Oslo, Norway.
Haycock, D. and Smith, A. (2009) Inclusive physical education and school sport? A study of the management of National Curriculum Physical Education and unplanned outcomes in England, Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
