Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Daniel Kilvington
Course Director and Reader
Dr Daniel Kilvington is Reader and Course Director in Media, Communication, Cultures. His teaching and research specialism explores race/ethnicity, racism and anti-racism in sport and new media spaces.
He is widely published and has written five books: Race, Racism and Sports Journalism (2012); Sport, Racism and Social Media (2015); British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry (2016); Sport and Discrimination (2017), and Online Research Methods in Sports Studies (2019), all with Routledge.
His research has explored the lived experiences of British South Asian communities within English football and his works have put forward a series of recommendations for reform. His other work has focused on the lack of minoritised ethnic coaches and managers within football. He is also a leading scholar in the field of online hate/abuse within sport, particularly football.
Dr Kilvington continues to work on external grants with funding bodies and stakeholders. In 2021, he was awarded an AHRC Large Grants Award for the project “Tackling Online Hate in Football” and in 2022, he started a project with the English Premier League examining anti-racist football coaching. Moreover, he works in collaboration with Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) in challenging far-right discourses online within football.
Dr Kilvington is the co-founder of the annual international Sport and Discrimination conference series; co-founder of the Talking Race podcast series; the founder of the inclusion initiative, Creating and Developing Coaches, and the trustee of the Zesh Rehman Foundation (ZRF).
Current Teaching
- Researching Media and Culture
- Youth, Crime, Culture
- 'Race', Culture, Media
- Sports Media
Research Interests
Dr Dan Kilvington has written extensively on issues of 'race' and racism within sport and new media. He has investigated the exclusion of British Asian players and the under-representation of BAME coaches and managers in football; the impact of positive action strategies in sport; online racial abuse within a sporting context; ethnicity and football fandom; and representations of 'race' in television sit-coms.
Dan's current research critically explores the lack of BAME coaches and managers in football, leading him to establish the inclusion organisation, Creating and Developing Coaches. Since 2016, Creating and Developing Coaches has worked with over 200 BAME coaches across the country and helped in some securing full time employment within the 'beautiful game'.
Ask Me About
- Sports media
- Youth, Crime, Culture
- Sport and new media
- Researching media and culture
- 'Race', Culture, Media
- Football
- Racism
- Social Media
- Sport
News & Blog Posts
Tackling online hate in football with Sky Sports News
Talking Race Podcast Returns
Leeds Beckett researchers awarded funding for major project into online hate and sports events
The School of Cultural Studies and Humanities - Taking on global issues event
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