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Lindsay Findlay-King is the Faculty Director for Quality Assurance at HLS and has been an academic at Northumbria University 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 UK Sports Volunteering Research Network—a network that aims to facilitate the interchange of information, ideas, and practice in the research of sport volunteers, especially between researchers and practitioners.

 

Research interests

Lindsay’s 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 https://www.cimspa.co.uk/library-and-guidance/research-hub).

Education/Academic qualification

Sports Studies, PhD

1 Jul 19981 Jul 2008

Award Date: 1 Jul 2008

Education, PGCE

1 Sept 199630 Jun 1997

Award Date: 30 Jun 1997

Leisure Management, MA (Hons)

30 Sept 199530 Jun 1996

Award Date: 30 Jun 1996

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