David Parnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Parnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Parnell |
| SIGNATURE | PARNELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5593-0633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies
The Business of the Fifa World Cup
It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty years of the English Premier League
Perceptions of role ambiguity for Sporting Directors in professional football
The Sporting Director is one strategy football clubs have adopted to protect their financial sustainability. Little to no research has been undertaken on the Sporting Director role in football. This article draws upon a qualitative methodology to examine perceptions and practices related to the role and its potential implications in football’s growing global business. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with senior stakeholders in football…
Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and Covid-19
Following advances in information technology and the rise of social media, prosumption – a model of simultaneous production and consumption of the commodity – has become a significant focus in many industries and for academic study. Prosumption represents a new message creation and delivery paradigm, where anyone can seamlessly shift from consumer to contributor, to creator. Central to this is the idea of creating 'use-value' and re-orientating '…
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
Football Worlds: Business and networks during Covid-19
The structure of football can also be conceived as a form of ecosystem, or even a social world, constructed through a network of individuals, within a division of labour, that interact under a set of specific conventions. In this commentary we describe that socially constructed world – Football World. The nature of this structural world makes network theory an appealing framework to explore processes of the football ecosystem during COVID-19. Whi…
Football and health improvement: An emerging field
Less than 40% of men and 30% of women met the current recommendations for an active lifestyle and with insufficient physical activity levels, concerns prevail over the health and well-being of the
Reaching older people with PA delivered in football clubs: The reach, adoption and implementation characteristics of the Extra Time Programme
Findings emerging from this study indicate that physical activity and health interventions delivered through professional football clubs can be effective for engaging OA
Understanding Football as a Vehicle for Enhancing Social Inclusion: Using an Intervention Mapping Framework
This article outlines a partnership between an academic institute and a third sector organisation attached to a professional football club in the United Kingdom. The partnership concerns a sport for development intervention. The purpose of the article is to outline the development of applied monitoring and evaluation and the application of intervention mapping for an intervention to tackle anti-social behaviour through a football-based social inc…
The pursuit of lifelong participation: The role of professional football clubs in the delivery of physical education and school sport in England
Physical Education and School Sport (PESS) offers a key vehicle to support the development of lifelong participation in children and young people. At a time of government cuts and the emergence of external providers, including professional football clubs, it is pertinent to explore current practice. This research set out to explore the delivery, and partnerships involved within the School Sports Premium, particularly the relationship between the …
Football for health: Getting strategic
Community foundations and charities operating within professional football clubs are being championed as a vehicle to deliver on the Public Health agenda. This personal commentary from the authors offers insight into the context of football for health drawing on the relevant research literature and their experiences working within the football industry in England. The football and health examples highlight under-resourced and under-evaluated inte…
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
Can ‘English Premier League’ funding for PE and school sport achieve its aims
There are a number of assertions being made for a £10 m investment by the English Premier League for primary school sport. For example, it is claimed that Physical Education plus school sport can improve cognitive functioning, concentration, behaviour, educational attainment and overall physical health. However, far from being sufficient in helping to achieve these benefits and sustain long-term activity participation, for some children, Physical…
Sustaining health improvement activities delivered in English professional football clubs using evaluation: A short communication
It has been suggested that football and communities are inextricably linked. Healthy lifestyles are an important component in maintaining the sustainability of local communities, not least, because a convincing evidence base supports the holistic benefits that can be derived from health-enhancing behaviours, such as regular physical activity. As such, efforts to promote health improvement through sport and physical activity include those interven…
Motivate’: The effect of a Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women’s cardiovascular risk factors
The purpose of this study was to examine whether an innovative, inclusive and integrated 12-week exercise, behaviour change and nutrition advice-based weight management programme could significantly improve the cardiovascular risk factors of overweight and obese men and women over the age of 35. One hundred and ninety-four men and 98 women (mean age = 52.28 ± 9.74 and 51.19 ± 9.04) attending a community-based intervention delivered by Notts Count…
Effect of a health-improvement pilot programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club: The Burton Albion case study
Older adults are a priority within policy designed to facilitate healthy lifestyles through physical activities. Golden Goal is a pilot programme of physical activity-led health improvement for older adults, 55 years and older. Activities were delivered at Burton Albion Football Club. Sessions involved weekly moderate to vigorous intensity exercise sessions including exer-gaming (exercise-orientated video-games), indoor bowls, cricket, new age cu…
Fit Fans: Perspectives of a practitioner and understanding participant health needs within a health promotion programme for older men delivered within an English Premier League Football Club
Fit Fans was a men’s health promotion intervention delivered within an English Premier League Football Club (2010–2011), which aimed to support the local community dwelling older men in lifestyle promotion (physical activity [PA], diet and well-being). The purpose of this study was to provide a reflexive account of a practitioner and the needs of participants. Seven men (mean age 58 years) attended weekly PA and lifestyle sessions over an eight-m…
Ethnographic engagement from within a Football in the Community programme at an English Premier League football club
The present paper draws upon six years of applied practitioner research experience of the authors who were based within a Football in the Community (FitC) programme at an English Premier League football club in a deprived community in the UK. The paper explores the critical emergent issues concerned with participant recruitment, engagement and retention within a range of FitC physical activity, health improvement interventions with the following …
Football in the community schemes: Exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e. the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilized including the principles of ethn…
Football Worlds: Business and networks during Covid-19
The structure of football can also be conceived as a form of ecosystem, or even a social world, constructed through a network of individuals, within a division of labour, that interact under a set of specific conventions. In this commentary we describe that socially constructed world – Football World. The nature of this structural world makes network theory an appealing framework to explore processes of the football ecosystem during COVID-19. Whi…
Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and Covid-19
Following advances in information technology and the rise of social media, prosumption – a model of simultaneous production and consumption of the commodity – has become a significant focus in many industries and for academic study. Prosumption represents a new message creation and delivery paradigm, where anyone can seamlessly shift from consumer to contributor, to creator. Central to this is the idea of creating 'use-value' and re-orientating '…
Football in the community schemes: Exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e. the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilized including the principles of ethn…
Fit Fans: Perspectives of a practitioner and understanding participant health needs within a health promotion programme for older men delivered within an English Premier League Football Club
Fit Fans was a men’s health promotion intervention delivered within an English Premier League Football Club (2010–2011), which aimed to support the local community dwelling older men in lifestyle promotion (physical activity [PA], diet and well-being). The purpose of this study was to provide a reflexive account of a practitioner and the needs of participants. Seven men (mean age 58 years) attended weekly PA and lifestyle sessions over an eight-m…
Ethnographic engagement from within a Football in the Community programme at an English Premier League football club
The present paper draws upon six years of applied practitioner research experience of the authors who were based within a Football in the Community (FitC) programme at an English Premier League football club in a deprived community in the UK. The paper explores the critical emergent issues concerned with participant recruitment, engagement and retention within a range of FitC physical activity, health improvement interventions with the following …
It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty years of the English Premier League
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
The pursuit of lifelong participation: The role of professional football clubs in the delivery of physical education and school sport in England
Physical Education and School Sport (PESS) offers a key vehicle to support the development of lifelong participation in children and young people. At a time of government cuts and the emergence of external providers, including professional football clubs, it is pertinent to explore current practice. This research set out to explore the delivery, and partnerships involved within the School Sports Premium, particularly the relationship between the …
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
Sustaining health improvement activities delivered in English professional football clubs using evaluation: A short communication
It has been suggested that football and communities are inextricably linked. Healthy lifestyles are an important component in maintaining the sustainability of local communities, not least, because a convincing evidence base supports the holistic benefits that can be derived from health-enhancing behaviours, such as regular physical activity. As such, efforts to promote health improvement through sport and physical activity include those interven…
Motivate’: The effect of a Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women’s cardiovascular risk factors
The purpose of this study was to examine whether an innovative, inclusive and integrated 12-week exercise, behaviour change and nutrition advice-based weight management programme could significantly improve the cardiovascular risk factors of overweight and obese men and women over the age of 35. One hundred and ninety-four men and 98 women (mean age = 52.28 ± 9.74 and 51.19 ± 9.04) attending a community-based intervention delivered by Notts Count…
Effect of a health-improvement pilot programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club: The Burton Albion case study
Older adults are a priority within policy designed to facilitate healthy lifestyles through physical activities. Golden Goal is a pilot programme of physical activity-led health improvement for older adults, 55 years and older. Activities were delivered at Burton Albion Football Club. Sessions involved weekly moderate to vigorous intensity exercise sessions including exer-gaming (exercise-orientated video-games), indoor bowls, cricket, new age cu…
Football in the community schemes: Exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e. the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilized including the principles of ethn…
Motivate’: The effect of a Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women’s cardiovascular risk factors
The purpose of this study was to examine whether an innovative, inclusive and integrated 12-week exercise, behaviour change and nutrition advice-based weight management programme could significantly improve the cardiovascular risk factors of overweight and obese men and women over the age of 35. One hundred and ninety-four men and 98 women (mean age = 52.28 ± 9.74 and 51.19 ± 9.04) attending a community-based intervention delivered by Notts Count…
Effect of a health-improvement pilot programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club: The Burton Albion case study
Older adults are a priority within policy designed to facilitate healthy lifestyles through physical activities. Golden Goal is a pilot programme of physical activity-led health improvement for older adults, 55 years and older. Activities were delivered at Burton Albion Football Club. Sessions involved weekly moderate to vigorous intensity exercise sessions including exer-gaming (exercise-orientated video-games), indoor bowls, cricket, new age cu…
Fit Fans: Perspectives of a practitioner and understanding participant health needs within a health promotion programme for older men delivered within an English Premier League Football Club
Fit Fans was a men’s health promotion intervention delivered within an English Premier League Football Club (2010–2011), which aimed to support the local community dwelling older men in lifestyle promotion (physical activity [PA], diet and well-being). The purpose of this study was to provide a reflexive account of a practitioner and the needs of participants. Seven men (mean age 58 years) attended weekly PA and lifestyle sessions over an eight-m…
Ethnographic engagement from within a Football in the Community programme at an English Premier League football club
The present paper draws upon six years of applied practitioner research experience of the authors who were based within a Football in the Community (FitC) programme at an English Premier League football club in a deprived community in the UK. The paper explores the critical emergent issues concerned with participant recruitment, engagement and retention within a range of FitC physical activity, health improvement interventions with the following …
Reaching older people with PA delivered in football clubs: The reach, adoption and implementation characteristics of the Extra Time Programme
Findings emerging from this study indicate that physical activity and health interventions delivered through professional football clubs can be effective for engaging OA
Understanding Football as a Vehicle for Enhancing Social Inclusion: Using an Intervention Mapping Framework
This article outlines a partnership between an academic institute and a third sector organisation attached to a professional football club in the United Kingdom. The partnership concerns a sport for development intervention. The purpose of the article is to outline the development of applied monitoring and evaluation and the application of intervention mapping for an intervention to tackle anti-social behaviour through a football-based social inc…
The pursuit of lifelong participation: The role of professional football clubs in the delivery of physical education and school sport in England
Physical Education and School Sport (PESS) offers a key vehicle to support the development of lifelong participation in children and young people. At a time of government cuts and the emergence of external providers, including professional football clubs, it is pertinent to explore current practice. This research set out to explore the delivery, and partnerships involved within the School Sports Premium, particularly the relationship between the …
Football for health: Getting strategic
Community foundations and charities operating within professional football clubs are being championed as a vehicle to deliver on the Public Health agenda. This personal commentary from the authors offers insight into the context of football for health drawing on the relevant research literature and their experiences working within the football industry in England. The football and health examples highlight under-resourced and under-evaluated inte…
A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Football is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Much of the research literature is primarily focused on contributions from the academic community. Given this, the Editors were motivated to provide an opportunity for practitioners and commissioners from applied settings to share their perspectives. This applied article offers insights from ‘key players' activity involved in football-led health improvement interventions
Can ‘English Premier League’ funding for PE and school sport achieve its aims
There are a number of assertions being made for a £10 m investment by the English Premier League for primary school sport. For example, it is claimed that Physical Education plus school sport can improve cognitive functioning, concentration, behaviour, educational attainment and overall physical health. However, far from being sufficient in helping to achieve these benefits and sustain long-term activity participation, for some children, Physical…
Sustaining health improvement activities delivered in English professional football clubs using evaluation: A short communication
It has been suggested that football and communities are inextricably linked. Healthy lifestyles are an important component in maintaining the sustainability of local communities, not least, because a convincing evidence base supports the holistic benefits that can be derived from health-enhancing behaviours, such as regular physical activity. As such, efforts to promote health improvement through sport and physical activity include those interven…
Football and health improvement: An emerging field
Less than 40% of men and 30% of women met the current recommendations for an active lifestyle and with insufficient physical activity levels, concerns prevail over the health and well-being of the
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
Football Worlds: Business and networks during Covid-19
The structure of football can also be conceived as a form of ecosystem, or even a social world, constructed through a network of individuals, within a division of labour, that interact under a set of specific conventions. In this commentary we describe that socially constructed world – Football World. The nature of this structural world makes network theory an appealing framework to explore processes of the football ecosystem during COVID-19. Whi…
Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and Covid-19
Following advances in information technology and the rise of social media, prosumption – a model of simultaneous production and consumption of the commodity – has become a significant focus in many industries and for academic study. Prosumption represents a new message creation and delivery paradigm, where anyone can seamlessly shift from consumer to contributor, to creator. Central to this is the idea of creating 'use-value' and re-orientating '…
The Business of the Fifa World Cup
It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty years of the English Premier League
Perceptions of role ambiguity for Sporting Directors in professional football
The Sporting Director is one strategy football clubs have adopted to protect their financial sustainability. Little to no research has been undertaken on the Sporting Director role in football. This article draws upon a qualitative methodology to examine perceptions and practices related to the role and its potential implications in football’s growing global business. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with senior stakeholders in football…
The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies
Football (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Physical Activity and Health (8 works) · Club (7 works) · Psychological intervention (7 works)