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Fred Coalter

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Fred Coalter
Professor, Sports Policy, University of Stirling

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Sports Policy, University of Stirling

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Presentation

Sport-for-development - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)

CV

Fred Coalter is Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling.

His research interests relate to the contributions which it is claimed that sport can make to various aspects of social policy.

His published work includes A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who’s Keeping the Score? (Routledge, 2007) and he is responsible for compiling Sport England/UK Sport’s on-line research-based Value of Sport Monitor. 

In addition, he writes and researches in the area of sport-for-development, having published Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual (UK Sport, UNICEF, 2006) which was based on extensive fieldwork in Africa and India.

Currently, he is undertaking a three year study of eight sport-in-development projects in Africa and two in India for Comic Relief and UK Sport.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Leisure and Amenity Management, the American Academy of Leisure Sciences and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Academy Development