Daniel Bloyce
Biographic Data
| ID | 266551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Bloyce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloyce |
| SIGNATURE | BLOYCE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4114-3588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using theories of power and place to evaluate community health promotion
There is some consensus that better ways of evaluating complex public health programmes are needed as experimental methods are limited in explaining the 'how' and 'why' of change. Methods like 'theory-of-change,' 'realist evaluation,' and 'systems evaluation' try to give a more complete picture of change by looking at the context of the programme. However, when these methods are used to study programmes that aim to reduce health inequalities, the…
LinkedIn as a research participant recruitment tool: Reflections from the football industry
Purpose The article explores the process of using LinkedIn to recruit hard-to-reach groups, reflecting on our experience of the football industry. We propose LinkedIn as a viable option to mitigate recruitment challenges, particularly in employment-focussed research. Design/methodology/approach We examine how LinkedIn was used to recruit 43 football backroom staff for a sociological research study. It outlines the process of using LinkedIn to con…
‘If you haven't got the contacts … you have no choice’: A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England
Association football has been viewed as an industry with considerable lucrative career prospects; however, this has not prevented the use of unpaid staff throughout football in the UK. Therefore, this paper examines the culture of unpaid work in football scouting, by exploring the motivations of 12 unpaid scouts at professional clubs, from a figurational perspective. Our findings suggest that scouts want to work in the industry because of their ‘…
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England
Association football is a lucrative sport with high financial rewards for top players. However, there has been little empirical work on the lifestyles of professional footballers. Based on interviews with 29 current and former male professional footballers, this paper examines the relationship between money, status and image management within and outside the changing room. The concept of conspicuous consumption is used to help explain players' at…
From public issues to personal troubles: Individualising social inequalities in health within local public health partnerships
This paper explores public health policy implementation through partnership working at the local level by examining how local actors from public health, and the wider workforce make sense of and work on social inequalities in health. An ethnographic case study was used to examine policy implementation in one local strategic partnership in north-west England during a period of significant resource constraint. Semi-structured interviews were the pr…
Delivering a sports participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Evidence from sport development workers in Birmingham and their experiences of a double-bind
Legacy promises from London 2012 meant that those working in sport in local, non-host areas in Britain were expected to facilitate more sporting opportunities for local citizens. Legacy preparations occurred in the context of many other constraints that stemmed from Government budget cuts and provision of leisure-time sport and other leisure activities. This paper presents new evidence on a significantly under-researched area of leisure studies, …
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon
Eric Dunning and Norbert Elias began developing their concept 'quest for excitement' in the 1960s. In this paper we consider the concept in the context of their work on the civilizing process and leisure in the spare-time spectrum, applying it to an analysis of the global diffusion and transformation of yoga. In so doing, we develop a preliminary theoretical account of its global popularity as a leisure-time movement form. We specifically conside…
Theorising lifestyle drift in health promotion: Explaining community and voluntary sector engagement practices in disadvantaged areas
The past two decades have seen an increasing role for the UK community and voluntary sector (CVS) in health promotion in disadvantaged areas, largely based on assumptions on the part of funders that CVS providers are better able to engage ‘hard-to-reach’ population groups in services than statutory providers. However, there is limited empirical research exploring CVS provider practices in this field. Using ethnographic data, this paper examines t…
Pressure to play?’ A sociological analysis of professional football managers’ behaviour towards injured players
Drawing upon figurational sociology, this paper examines professional football managers’ attitudes towards injured players. Following interviews with 10 managers, as with previous research, we found that managers have an expectancy that players are rarely fully fit. Players were stigmatized when they were seemingly unwilling to play when a manager encouraged them to. However, we also found that many managers shaped, in part, by their habitus form…
Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf
This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems—such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward imbalance—which have been identified as “strong predictors of mental ill-health” (Leka & Jain, 2010, p. 65). Feelings of loneliness and isolation …
Friends as enemies: A sociological analysis of the relationship among touring professional golfers
This paper examines the relationship among male touring professional golfers from a figurational sociological standpoint. The paper is based on 20 interviews from players with experience playing at various levels on the European Professional Golfers Association professional tours and a level 'above' that. The results indicate a workplace culture where many begin to adopt the attitudes and behaviors that encourage the development of networks of te…
The 'Olympic and Paralympic' Effect on Public Policy
1. The 'Olympic and Paralympic effect' on public policy: use and misuse 2. A realist perspective of sport and international relations: US governmental perceptions of Olympic boycott movements, 1936-2008 3. A critical analysis of the impact of the Beijing Olympic Games on Australia's sport policy direction 4. (Re)Framing of protest at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games 5. Planning for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic legacy: a figurational analys…
Professional Golf-A License to Spend Money? Issues of Money in the Lives of Touring Professional Golfers
Drawing on figurational sociology, this article examines issues of money that are central to touring professional golfers' workplace experiences. Based on interviews with 16 professionals, results indicate the monetary rewards available for top golfers continues to increase; however, such recompense is available to relatively small numbers and the majority fare poorly. Results suggest that playing on tour with other like-minded golfers fosters in…
Local status and power in area-based health improvement partnerships
Area-based initiatives have formed an important part of public policy towards more socio-economically deprived areas in many countries. Co-ordinating service provision within and across sectors has been a common feature of these initiatives. Despite sustained policy interest in area-based initiatives, little empirical work has explored relations between area-based initiative providers, and partnership development within this context remains under…
Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction
This book is not available through ChesterRep
Sport Policy and Development
Who makes sport policy and why do we need it? What is the purpose of sport development programmes? Sport Policy and Development answers these questions and more by closely examining the complex relationships between modern sport, sport policy and development and other aspects of the wider society. These important issues are explored via detailed case studies of key aspects of sport policy and sport development activity, including: school sport an…
Glorious Rounders’: The American Baseball Invasion of England in Two World Wars – Unappealing American Exceptionalism
During the two world wars of the twentieth century, American cultural wares were spread far and wide, and the global pervasiveness of US troops contributed significantly toward this development. One major aspect of an American serviceman's spare time was his involvement with sporting pursuits and, where possible, baseball matches were played, and even formalized, in the guise of exhibition matches played for war charities. Little, if anything, ha…
Baseball in England: A Case of Prolonged Cultural Resistance
The concern within this paper is to examine how, notwithstanding the growing global power of the USA and the declining power of Britain over a period of fifty years from 1874 to 1924, a series of attempts made by American entrepreneurs to establish the game of baseball in England were, to all intents and purposes, rebuffed. On four separate occasions during this period various American baseball entrepreneurs put on exhibition matches of baseball.…
John Moores and the ‘Professional’ Baseball Leagues in 1930s England
Several attempts had been made to establish baseball in England before the 1930s, but this decade saw, arguably, the most serious attempt. Inspired and financed, largely, by John Moores, baseball was developed in Lancashire, Yorkshire and London, such that ‘professional’ leagues were set up in 1936, and thousands paid to watch matches. Some people from cricketing quarters even considered their game to be under threat. However, despite the strides…
Sports administration on the hoof: The three points for a win ‘experiment’ in English soccer
This article is not available through ChesterRep
Involvement and Detachment, from Principles to Practice: A Critical Reassessment of The Established and the Outsiders
In this paper we revisit The Established and the Outsiders (Elias and Scotson 1965; second edition 1994). We argue that Elias was so intent upon demonstrating the heuristic value of his theory of established–outsider relations that he allowed these concerns to cloud his assessment of Scotson's data. We argue that the paradox is Elias had already developed more sophisticated and flexible tools for analysing the dynamic complexities of human figura…
Violence, Competition and the Emergence and Development of Modern Sports: Reflections on the Stokvis-Malcolm debate
This article is not available through ChesterRep
Just not cricket’: Baseball in England, 1874–1900
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon
Eric Dunning and Norbert Elias began developing their concept 'quest for excitement' in the 1960s. In this paper we consider the concept in the context of their work on the civilizing process and leisure in the spare-time spectrum, applying it to an analysis of the global diffusion and transformation of yoga. In so doing, we develop a preliminary theoretical account of its global popularity as a leisure-time movement form. We specifically conside…
Pressure to play?’ A sociological analysis of professional football managers’ behaviour towards injured players
Drawing upon figurational sociology, this paper examines professional football managers’ attitudes towards injured players. Following interviews with 10 managers, as with previous research, we found that managers have an expectancy that players are rarely fully fit. Players were stigmatized when they were seemingly unwilling to play when a manager encouraged them to. However, we also found that many managers shaped, in part, by their habitus form…
Professional Golf-A License to Spend Money? Issues of Money in the Lives of Touring Professional Golfers
Drawing on figurational sociology, this article examines issues of money that are central to touring professional golfers' workplace experiences. Based on interviews with 16 professionals, results indicate the monetary rewards available for top golfers continues to increase; however, such recompense is available to relatively small numbers and the majority fare poorly. Results suggest that playing on tour with other like-minded golfers fosters in…
Involvement and Detachment, from Principles to Practice: A Critical Reassessment of The Established and the Outsiders
In this paper we revisit The Established and the Outsiders (Elias and Scotson 1965; second edition 1994). We argue that Elias was so intent upon demonstrating the heuristic value of his theory of established–outsider relations that he allowed these concerns to cloud his assessment of Scotson's data. We argue that the paradox is Elias had already developed more sophisticated and flexible tools for analysing the dynamic complexities of human figura…
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England
Association football is a lucrative sport with high financial rewards for top players. However, there has been little empirical work on the lifestyles of professional footballers. Based on interviews with 29 current and former male professional footballers, this paper examines the relationship between money, status and image management within and outside the changing room. The concept of conspicuous consumption is used to help explain players' at…
Friends as enemies: A sociological analysis of the relationship among touring professional golfers
This paper examines the relationship among male touring professional golfers from a figurational sociological standpoint. The paper is based on 20 interviews from players with experience playing at various levels on the European Professional Golfers Association professional tours and a level 'above' that. The results indicate a workplace culture where many begin to adopt the attitudes and behaviors that encourage the development of networks of te…
Baseball in England: A Case of Prolonged Cultural Resistance
The concern within this paper is to examine how, notwithstanding the growing global power of the USA and the declining power of Britain over a period of fifty years from 1874 to 1924, a series of attempts made by American entrepreneurs to establish the game of baseball in England were, to all intents and purposes, rebuffed. On four separate occasions during this period various American baseball entrepreneurs put on exhibition matches of baseball.…
Just not cricket’: Baseball in England, 1874–1900
Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf
This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems—such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward imbalance—which have been identified as “strong predictors of mental ill-health” (Leka & Jain, 2010, p. 65). Feelings of loneliness and isolation …
Glorious Rounders’: The American Baseball Invasion of England in Two World Wars – Unappealing American Exceptionalism
During the two world wars of the twentieth century, American cultural wares were spread far and wide, and the global pervasiveness of US troops contributed significantly toward this development. One major aspect of an American serviceman's spare time was his involvement with sporting pursuits and, where possible, baseball matches were played, and even formalized, in the guise of exhibition matches played for war charities. Little, if anything, ha…
Sports administration on the hoof: The three points for a win ‘experiment’ in English soccer
This article is not available through ChesterRep
Violence, Competition and the Emergence and Development of Modern Sports: Reflections on the Stokvis-Malcolm debate
This article is not available through ChesterRep
Just not cricket’: Baseball in England, 1874–1900
Violence, Competition and the Emergence and Development of Modern Sports: Reflections on the Stokvis-Malcolm debate
This article is not available through ChesterRep
John Moores and the ‘Professional’ Baseball Leagues in 1930s England
Several attempts had been made to establish baseball in England before the 1930s, but this decade saw, arguably, the most serious attempt. Inspired and financed, largely, by John Moores, baseball was developed in Lancashire, Yorkshire and London, such that ‘professional’ leagues were set up in 1936, and thousands paid to watch matches. Some people from cricketing quarters even considered their game to be under threat. However, despite the strides…
Sports administration on the hoof: The three points for a win ‘experiment’ in English soccer
This article is not available through ChesterRep
Involvement and Detachment, from Principles to Practice: A Critical Reassessment of The Established and the Outsiders
In this paper we revisit The Established and the Outsiders (Elias and Scotson 1965; second edition 1994). We argue that Elias was so intent upon demonstrating the heuristic value of his theory of established–outsider relations that he allowed these concerns to cloud his assessment of Scotson's data. We argue that the paradox is Elias had already developed more sophisticated and flexible tools for analysing the dynamic complexities of human figura…
Glorious Rounders’: The American Baseball Invasion of England in Two World Wars – Unappealing American Exceptionalism
During the two world wars of the twentieth century, American cultural wares were spread far and wide, and the global pervasiveness of US troops contributed significantly toward this development. One major aspect of an American serviceman's spare time was his involvement with sporting pursuits and, where possible, baseball matches were played, and even formalized, in the guise of exhibition matches played for war charities. Little, if anything, ha…
Baseball in England: A Case of Prolonged Cultural Resistance
The concern within this paper is to examine how, notwithstanding the growing global power of the USA and the declining power of Britain over a period of fifty years from 1874 to 1924, a series of attempts made by American entrepreneurs to establish the game of baseball in England were, to all intents and purposes, rebuffed. On four separate occasions during this period various American baseball entrepreneurs put on exhibition matches of baseball.…
Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction
This book is not available through ChesterRep
Sport Policy and Development
Who makes sport policy and why do we need it? What is the purpose of sport development programmes? Sport Policy and Development answers these questions and more by closely examining the complex relationships between modern sport, sport policy and development and other aspects of the wider society. These important issues are explored via detailed case studies of key aspects of sport policy and sport development activity, including: school sport an…
Local status and power in area-based health improvement partnerships
Area-based initiatives have formed an important part of public policy towards more socio-economically deprived areas in many countries. Co-ordinating service provision within and across sectors has been a common feature of these initiatives. Despite sustained policy interest in area-based initiatives, little empirical work has explored relations between area-based initiative providers, and partnership development within this context remains under…
Professional Golf-A License to Spend Money? Issues of Money in the Lives of Touring Professional Golfers
Drawing on figurational sociology, this article examines issues of money that are central to touring professional golfers' workplace experiences. Based on interviews with 16 professionals, results indicate the monetary rewards available for top golfers continues to increase; however, such recompense is available to relatively small numbers and the majority fare poorly. Results suggest that playing on tour with other like-minded golfers fosters in…
The 'Olympic and Paralympic' Effect on Public Policy
1. The 'Olympic and Paralympic effect' on public policy: use and misuse 2. A realist perspective of sport and international relations: US governmental perceptions of Olympic boycott movements, 1936-2008 3. A critical analysis of the impact of the Beijing Olympic Games on Australia's sport policy direction 4. (Re)Framing of protest at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games 5. Planning for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic legacy: a figurational analys…
Theorising lifestyle drift in health promotion: Explaining community and voluntary sector engagement practices in disadvantaged areas
The past two decades have seen an increasing role for the UK community and voluntary sector (CVS) in health promotion in disadvantaged areas, largely based on assumptions on the part of funders that CVS providers are better able to engage ‘hard-to-reach’ population groups in services than statutory providers. However, there is limited empirical research exploring CVS provider practices in this field. Using ethnographic data, this paper examines t…
Pressure to play?’ A sociological analysis of professional football managers’ behaviour towards injured players
Drawing upon figurational sociology, this paper examines professional football managers’ attitudes towards injured players. Following interviews with 10 managers, as with previous research, we found that managers have an expectancy that players are rarely fully fit. Players were stigmatized when they were seemingly unwilling to play when a manager encouraged them to. However, we also found that many managers shaped, in part, by their habitus form…
Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf
This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems—such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward imbalance—which have been identified as “strong predictors of mental ill-health” (Leka & Jain, 2010, p. 65). Feelings of loneliness and isolation …
Friends as enemies: A sociological analysis of the relationship among touring professional golfers
This paper examines the relationship among male touring professional golfers from a figurational sociological standpoint. The paper is based on 20 interviews from players with experience playing at various levels on the European Professional Golfers Association professional tours and a level 'above' that. The results indicate a workplace culture where many begin to adopt the attitudes and behaviors that encourage the development of networks of te…
From public issues to personal troubles: Individualising social inequalities in health within local public health partnerships
This paper explores public health policy implementation through partnership working at the local level by examining how local actors from public health, and the wider workforce make sense of and work on social inequalities in health. An ethnographic case study was used to examine policy implementation in one local strategic partnership in north-west England during a period of significant resource constraint. Semi-structured interviews were the pr…
Delivering a sports participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Evidence from sport development workers in Birmingham and their experiences of a double-bind
Legacy promises from London 2012 meant that those working in sport in local, non-host areas in Britain were expected to facilitate more sporting opportunities for local citizens. Legacy preparations occurred in the context of many other constraints that stemmed from Government budget cuts and provision of leisure-time sport and other leisure activities. This paper presents new evidence on a significantly under-researched area of leisure studies, …
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon
Eric Dunning and Norbert Elias began developing their concept 'quest for excitement' in the 1960s. In this paper we consider the concept in the context of their work on the civilizing process and leisure in the spare-time spectrum, applying it to an analysis of the global diffusion and transformation of yoga. In so doing, we develop a preliminary theoretical account of its global popularity as a leisure-time movement form. We specifically conside…
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England
Association football is a lucrative sport with high financial rewards for top players. However, there has been little empirical work on the lifestyles of professional footballers. Based on interviews with 29 current and former male professional footballers, this paper examines the relationship between money, status and image management within and outside the changing room. The concept of conspicuous consumption is used to help explain players' at…
‘If you haven't got the contacts … you have no choice’: A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England
Association football has been viewed as an industry with considerable lucrative career prospects; however, this has not prevented the use of unpaid staff throughout football in the UK. Therefore, this paper examines the culture of unpaid work in football scouting, by exploring the motivations of 12 unpaid scouts at professional clubs, from a figurational perspective. Our findings suggest that scouts want to work in the industry because of their ‘…
Using theories of power and place to evaluate community health promotion
There is some consensus that better ways of evaluating complex public health programmes are needed as experimental methods are limited in explaining the 'how' and 'why' of change. Methods like 'theory-of-change,' 'realist evaluation,' and 'systems evaluation' try to give a more complete picture of change by looking at the context of the programme. However, when these methods are used to study programmes that aim to reduce health inequalities, the…
LinkedIn as a research participant recruitment tool: Reflections from the football industry
Purpose The article explores the process of using LinkedIn to recruit hard-to-reach groups, reflecting on our experience of the football industry. We propose LinkedIn as a viable option to mitigate recruitment challenges, particularly in employment-focussed research. Design/methodology/approach We examine how LinkedIn was used to recruit 43 football backroom staff for a sociological research study. It outlines the process of using LinkedIn to con…
Political science (19 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (7 works) · History (6 works)