Dr Lindsay Findlay-King

Associate Professor

Department: Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation

Lindsay Findlay-King is the Faculty Director for Quality Assurance at HLS and has been an academic at 51爆料 for over 25 years. Throughout her career, she has taught a wide range of sport management subjects, currently focusing on volunteering and governance. Lindsay teaches across all academic levels, from level 3 to level 7.

She holds a BA (Hons) in Modern History and Politics and an MA (with distinction) in Leisure Management, both from Sheffield University. Her primary research interests lie in sport volunteering, particularly in the areas of community asset transfer for sport facilities, inclusive volunteering, volunteer management, and the volunteer experience.

Lindsay has also served as an examiner for PhD theses focused on sport volunteering in the UK and is the Chair of the鈥攁 network that aims to facilitate the interchange of information, ideas, and practice in the research of sport volunteers, especially between researchers and practitioners.

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Lindsay Findlay-King

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Lindsay鈥檚 doctoral research focused on a qualitative, life history based, exploration of sport participation, experience, and identity in the transition into mid-life. However her greatest research interest lies in sport volunteering. She has been involved extensively in sport volunteering experience, recruitment and retention studies, from uniformed youth organisations to sports club settings. Her current research interests focus on the asset transfer of local authority sport (and library) facilities to voluntary community groups, including the successful management and sustainability of these enterprises. This has included case studies across the UK and a current study of the transfer of five sports centres in one UK local authority and the lessons learnt for local authority and voluntary groups. This work is disseminated through academic publications, research conferences, the UK SVRN and on a hub created with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (see ).

Key Publications

Qualifications

  • Sports Studies PhD July 01 2008
  • Education PGCE June 30 1997
  • Leisure Management MA (Hons) June 30 1996
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2001

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