My expertise lies in policy and practice of youth and community sports development and my research has particularly focused on issues of partnership working and sustainability. I have undertaken this research in the UK and increasingly in countries in Africa including Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/sport/homepage/africa/ My first book, ‘Sport Policy in Britain’, with Professor Barrie Houlihan (Loughborough University) was published in 2012 and I have written numberous other articles and book chapters.