Academic staff

The International Centre for Sports History and Culture is the leading centre for the study of sports history in the world. Our team has produced critically acclaimed histories of football, rugby, cricket and women’s sport, British sport and much more.

Academic staff

Neil Carter| - T: 0116 207 8316 E: necarter@dmu.ac.uk|
Senior Research Fellow
History of sports medicine, relationship between sport, health and the state as well as the role of voluntarism in society.

Tony Collins| - T: 0116 257 7315 E: TCollins@dmu.ac.uk|
Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture
Class and sport, Global history of sport, especially the football codes, and Britain in the 1920s. 

Jeffrey Hill| - E: JHill@dmu.ac.uk|
Emeritus Professor of History
Sport and recreation, popular culture, and historiography and theory, principally in a British and European twentieth-century context.

Richard Holt| - T: 0116 250 6370 E: RHolt@dmu.ac.uk|
Professor of History
Sporting heroes and national identity, amateurism, and sport and ethnicity.

Pierre Lanfranchi| - T: 0116 257 7399 E: PLanfranc@dmu.ac.uk|
Research Professor in History
Stadium and society, Sport and the European Union, Professional football players and transfer regulations.

Tony Mason - E: ICSHC@dmu.ac.uk|
Emeritus Professor of History
History of Sport: Relationship between sports and the military in Britain 1880-1960, History of World Football

James Panter| - T: 0116 250 6486 E: JPanter@dmu.ac.uk|
Research and FIFA Module Officer
Responsible for co-ordination of FIFA Humanities of Sport module, academic conferences, research projects and project management support.

Dilwyn Porter| - T: 0116 250 6278 E: Dilwyn.Porter@dmu.ac.uk|
Professor of History
Sport in twentieth century Britain with a particular interest in issues relating to amateurism, national identity and Cold war football.

Matthew Taylor| - T: 0116 257 7399 E: MTaylor@dmu.ac.uk|
Professor of History
History of sport and recreation, especially football and boxing. Development of sport in Britain, Europe and the wider world.

Jean Williams| - T: 0116 250 6304 E: JWilliam@dmu.ac.uk|
Senior Research Fellow
The social and cultural history of sport, physical education and gender, British Women Olympians, Sport and literature, International women’s football, particularly issues of equity and professionalism, Sportswear, fashion and footwear, and Motor Sport.

Robert Colls| T: 0116 207 8316 E: rmc@dmu.ac.uk|
Professor of History
Nineteenth and 20th century English/British sport; popular culture; national and regional identities; politics and letters; George Orwell