Sugden, John Prof.
- Professor John Sugden studied politics and sociology at the University of Essex and physical education at the University of Liverpool before taking up a postgraduate scholarship in the USA at the University of Connecticut where he earned a Doctorate in the Sociology of Sport in 1984. He has researched and written widely around topics concerned with the politics and sociology of sport and his books on international boxing and on sport in Northern Ireland have won national and international awards. Professor Sugden is well known for his work on sport in divided societies, his studies – with Alan Tomlinson - of the world governing body for football, Fifa, and for his investigative research into football’s underground economy. Currently, Professor Sugden is Academic Leader of the Sport and Leisure Cultures subject group, Chair of the Faculty Research strategy Committee and Director of the University of Brighton’s flagship international community relations project in Israel, Football for Peace.
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