Dr Mark Doidge is a Reader in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. His research focuses on making sport an inclusive and sustainable space for all. In particular, it has focused on social activism among football fans across Europe, environmentalism, anti-racism, and supporting refugees. He is part of the AHRC-IRC funded Tackling Online Hate in Football project, has won funding from the AHRC, ESRC, British Academy, Wellcome Trust, amongst others. He is the author of a number of books, including Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018), Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures (2018), and Football Italia (2015). Mark is also currently a trustee of Pledgeball, a trustee the British Sociological Association and convenor of the BSA Sport Study Group, a committee member of Football Supporters Europe, and a member of the advisory board for the FSA’s Fans For Diversity.



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Selected publications

Amann, Jennifer, and Mark Doidge. 2023. “‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising Football Fans on Climate Change.” Sociology, February, 00380385221142211: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385221142211

Amann, Jennifer, and Mark Doidge. 2022. “Football as an island of hope in a warming sea of despair.” In: Cherrington J and Black J (eds) Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. London: Routledge, pp.161–174.
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