BULLETIN BOARD

University of Leicester Football World Cup Experts

Please find below academics at the University of Leicester who are available to be contacted by the media for expert comment on football World Cup issues

The list is by no means final, so if anyone would like to be added or removed from it, please contact the Press Office on 0116 252 2415, or email the Press and Publications Assistant Alex Jelley on aj40@le.ac.uk

Football World Cup Experts at the University of Leicester:

Mr John Williams

Sociology of Sport
Contact via Email: jxw@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 2745, Mobile: 0781-5954091
Areas of Expertise: Football culture, fan behaviour, racism, modernisation of football, the new economics of the sport

Professor Eric Dunning

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Contact: 077934 03516
Football hooliganism (co-author of four books on football hooliganism); history of football

Dr Ivan Waddington

Contact via Mobile: 0781 469 5764
Areas of Expertise: Doping/drugs in sport, sport and health, Football hooliganism, Football injuries

Professor John Benyon

Professor of Politics
Contact via Email: jtb2@le.ac.uk; ijw3@le.ac.uk; JohnBenyon@scarman.freeserve.co.uk, Tel: 0116 252 5914
Areas of Expertise: Politics/order; democracies, the changing nature of; gun crime; gang culture; racism; law and order; protest

Mr Jon Garland

Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Criminology Contact via Email: jgd@le.ac.uk,
Tel: 0116 252 5701
Areas of Expertise: Racism in football; rural racism; anti-racism; policing and crowd control; ethnicity and identity; community safety.

Dr Michael Rowe

Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Criminology
Contact via Email: mr5@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 5705, Mobile: 0798 442826
Areas of Expertise: Policing; race relations; football hooliganism; public disorder; police community relations; police training

Professor Martin Parker

Professor of Organisation and Culture, Management Centre
Contact via Email: m.parker@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 5183
Areas of Expertise: The cultural aspects of management, business and organisations. Anti-corporate protest, business ethics, theory and philosophy.

Dr Stuart Smith

Research Fellow, Sociology
Contact via Email: sls17@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 223 1235
Areas of Expertise: Sport and Masculinity, Sports management, Sport & violence

Mr Adrian Beck

Reader in Criminology, Department of Criminology
Contact via Email: bna@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 5988, Mobile: 07968 072703
Areas of Expertise: Crime against organisations including retail crime; national identity cards; crime and policing in eastern Europe

Mr Andrew Willis

Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Criminology
Contact via Email: aw9@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 5781, Mobile: 0794 134 8174
Areas of Expertise: Community policing, police training; public policing and private security; sentencing and penal policy; crime risk assessment and security management.

Dr Robert Colls

Lecturer, School of Historical Studies
Contact via Email: rmc11@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 2584
Areas of Expertise: Modern British social and cultural history; English identity

Mr Martin Davies

Reader, School of Historical Studies
Contact via Email: mld@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 2816, Mobile: 0788 7855329
Areas of Expertise: European culture since 18th century

Mr Peter Graves

Senior Lecturer in German, School of Modern Languages
Contact via Email: pjg@le.ac.uk, Tel: 0116 252 2665, Mobile: 07778 426577
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary German literature and culture

Dr Fernando Soares Schlindwein

Dept of Engineering
Contact on: (0116)2525053; email: fss1@le.ac.uk
Areas of Expertise: Brazilian Culture; Brazilian football.

Mr George Ferzoco

Director of Italian Studies & Director, Centre for Tuscan Studies
Contact via email: g.ferzoco@le.ac.uk , Tel: 0116 252 2654, Departmental Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/ml
Areas of Expertise: Italian Culture, Italian Politics and History, Italian Football