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Jonathan Long

Emeritus Professor

Jonathan Long is an Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure. Throughout his career his research has been in leisure studies with a focus on social justice with a particular interest in racial equality.

Having initially trained as a geographer, he became Research Director at the Tourism and Recreation Research Unit and the Centre for Leisure Research in Edinburgh. His experience embraces all stages of the research process from design to dissemination and his research utilises both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. He has managed over sixty external contracts for organisations like the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, the sports councils, local authorities and third sector bodies like national governing bodies of sport and Sporting Equals. His personal research interests centre on sport and leisure policy, social inclusion, social capital and racial equality.

Apart from being a well-known author in his own right (including Researching Leisure, Sport and Tourism for Sage), Jonathan has made major contributions editing and publishing. He was a founding member of the Editorial Boards of Leisure Studies and The Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events , and has also served on the editorial boards of Managing Leisure, the Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation. He is currently series editor (with Kevin Hylton) for Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure. He was appointed a Fellow of both the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Research Interests

Since ‘retirement’ his research interests continue with projects on: the intersections between music and sport; migrant communities and music; Jewish involvement in sport and physical activity; racism and Islamophobia through online football sites. Amongst other things his work on equality and social justice led to him being appointed to the Accreditation Panel for the Equality Standard for Professional Football Clubs, run by Kick It Out. The longrunning 'Fields of Vision' initiative has led to a book, two special issues of Sport in Society and a manifesto (https://artsinsport.wordpress.com/a-manifesto-for-the-arts-and-sport-together/).

j.a.long@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Selected Outputs

Long J; Hylton K (2017) ‘Knowing me, Knowing you’: biographies and subjectivities in the study of ‘race’. In: Long J; Fletcher TE; Watson R ed. Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. London: Routledge,
Wetherly P; Watson R; Long JA (2017) Principles of Social Justice for Sport and Leisure. In: Long J; Fletcher T; Watson R ed. Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. Routledge,
Pereira A; Long JA (2015) The Social Dynamics of Space Constructions and Leisure Lifestyles. In: Elkington S; Gammon S ed. Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities. Palgrave,
Long JA (2013) Opera Man and the Meeting of ‘Tastes’. In: Sandle D; Long J; Parry J; Spracklen K ed. Fields of Vision: The Arts in Sport. Leisure Studies Association, pp. 73-84.
Long JA (2013) Research Positions, Postures and Practices in Leisure Studies. In: Blackshaw T ed. Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 82-96.
Long JA (2013) Researching and Evaluating Sport Development. In: Hylton K ed. Sports Development: Policy, process and practice. Routledge, pp. 272-297.
Pereira A; Long JA; Amaral S (2012) Bocce alone: leisure and social capital in a Brazilian neighbourhood. In: Spracklen K; Adams A ed. Sport and Leisure Ethics, Rights and Social Relationships. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 97-112.
Long J; Carless D (2010) Hearing, listening and acting. In: MacPhail A; O'Sullivan M ed. Young People’s Voices in Physical Education and Sport. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 213-225.
Spracklen K; Timmins S; Long JA (2010) The Glory of their Times: Black Rugby League Players, Imagined Communities and the Invention of Tradition. In: Snape R; Pussard H ed. Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, games and pastimes in 20th Century Britain. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 139-153.
Spracklen K; Long J; Timmins S (2009) Remembering, Telling and Reconstructing: Oral Histories of the Northern Working-Class at Leisure in Rugby League. In: Snape R; Pussard H ed. Recording Leisure Lives: Histories, Archives and Memories of Leisure in 20th Century Britain. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, pp. 113-128.
Long JA; Strange I (2009) Mission or Pragmatism? Cultural Policy in Leeds Since 2000. In: Bramham P; Wagg S ed. Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City. Aldershot: Ashgate,
Long J (2008) Sport's Ambiguous Relationship with Social Capital: The contribution of national governing bodies of sport. In: Nicholson M; Hoye R ed. Sport and Social Capital. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, pp. 207-232.
Long J (2008) Ambiguities in the Relationship between Sport and Social Capital. In: Collins M; Holmes K; Slater A ed. Sport, Leisure, Culture and Social Capital: Discourse and practice. Eastbourne: LSA Publications, pp. 1-15.
Long J (2007) Researching and Evaluating Sports Development. In: Hylton K; Bramham P ed. Sports Development. Policy, Process and Practice. Routledge, pp. 236-257.

Long J; Bianchini F (2018) New directions in the arts and sport? Critiquing national strategies. Sport in Society, pp. 1-20.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1430484
Whitaker L; Backhouse SH; Long J (2017) Doping vulnerabilities, rationalisations and contestations: The lived experience of national level athletes. Performance Enhancement and Health, 5 (4), pp. 134-141.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2017.06.001
Long J (2016) Living with the consequences of policy decisions: reactions to student lifestyles in the neighbourhood. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 8 (2), pp. 176-195.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2016.1157599
Whitaker L; Petróczi A; Backhouse SH; Long J; Nepusz T (2016) The role of the Self in assessing doping cognition: Implicit and explicit measures of athletes' doping-related prototype perceptions. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 24 pp. 159-167.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.02.005
Hylton K; Long J (2015) Confronting ‘race’ and policy: ‘how can you research something you say does not exist?’. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 8 (2), pp. 202-208.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2015.1115950
Whitaker L; Backhouse SH; Long J (2014) Reporting doping in sport: national level athletes' perceptions of their role in doping prevention. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 24 (6), pp. e515-e521.

https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.12222
Spracklen K; Long J; Hylton K (2014) Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport. Leisure Studies, 34 (1), pp. 114-129.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.939989
Long J; Hylton K (2014) Reviewing research evidence and the case of participation in sport and physical recreation by black and minority ethnic communities. Leisure Studies, 33 (4), pp. 379-399.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2012.727460
Long J; Hylton K; Spracklen K (2014) Whiteness, Blackness and Settlement: Leisure and the Integration of New Migrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40 (11), pp. 1779-1797.

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2014.893189
Daly-Smith AJW; McKenna J; Radley D; Long J (2011) The impact of additional weekdays of active commuting to school on children achieving a criterion of 300+minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Health Education Journal, 70 (4), pp. 428-434.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896910379367
Spracklen K; Timmins S; Long J (2010) Ethnographies of the imagined, the imaginary and the critically real: Blackness, whiteness, the north of England and rugby league. Leisure Studies, 29 (4), pp. 397-414.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2010.523838
Hughes K; Kirk D; Long JA (2010) El legado social de los macro-eventos deportivos y los juegos olimpicos y paralimpicos de Londres 2012. Citius, Altius, Fortius: Humanismo, Sociedad y Deporte: Investigaciones y ensayos, 3 (1), pp. 19-38.

Hylton K; Long J; Fletcher TE; Ormerod N (2015) South Asian Communities and Cricket (Bradford and Leeds) [Online]. Yorkshire Cricket Foundation.
Long JA; Dashper K; Fletcher T; Ormerod N (2015) Understanding participation and non-participation in sport amongst Black and minority ethnic groups in Wales [Online]. Cardiff: Report to Sport Wales from the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure.

Available from: http://sport.wales/media/1647168/bme_sport_in_wales_-_final.pdf
Long J; Hylton K; Spracklen K; Ratna A; Bailey S (2009) Systematic Review of the Literature on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Sport and Physical Recreation [Online]. Sporting Equals and the Sports Council.

Available from: http://www.sportengland.org/media/39689/systematic-review-of-the-literature-on-bme-communities-in-sport.pdf

eds. Long JA; Fletcher T; Watson R (2017) Sport, Leisure and Social Justice.
Sandle D; Long J; Parry J; Spracklen K (2013) Fields of Vision: The Arts in Sport. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association.
Long JA; Fitzgerald H; Millward P (2011) Delivering Equality in Sport and Leisure. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association.
Long J; Spracklen K (2010) Sport and Challenges to Racism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Long J (2007) Researching Leisure, Sport and Tourism. The essential guide. London: Sage Publications.