Over the last seven years I have written three books:
The Football Book: A Global Encyclopaedia (2009) London: Dorling Kindersley
The World Football Yearbook, (2004) London: Dorling Kindersley, a graphic atlas and encyclopaedia of global football
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (2006) London: Penguin
I also write a monthly column on sport for Prospect magazine, have published some memoire in Granta as well as reviewing sports books for the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent and The Observer.
Teaching
I have taught at the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol (2005-2009), presenting a third year undergraduate course, Deep Play: Global Sport and the Modern World. I have also written an on-line course in global sport for the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.
I have worked with Watershed Arts Cinema (2006 and 2008), Bristol City and Bristol Rovers football study centres and the University of the First Age (2006-2007), teaching primary and secondary school kids on a variety of football and literacy education projects.
At the Watershed I have taught students in key stage 3 and 4 in groups of 20-40, spending the morning giving an inspirational lecture with readings from my own work and clips of sports movies, designed to excite students about sports writing and getting them to think about sport and narrative. The afternoons have been given over to their own work.
At the football study centres I worked on a six week programme with low achieving students in key stage 4 where we taught them to write newspaper style match reports, took them to a game and helped them create a finished report on that match. With key stage 2 kids, I ran a series of football and poetry workshops.
Broadcasting
I am currently working as a reporter for the BBC World Service (Assignment) and BBC Radio 4 (Crossing Continents). Topics include: the economics of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the politics of football in Israel, football and social development in the slums of urban Kenya, the globalization of cricket.
Previously I have worked as a Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, as an undergraduate supervisor at Cambridge University and as Research Assistant at the House of Commons.
also see:
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1658_assignment_2008/page23.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1658_assignment_2008/page49.shtml
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