University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

1985 Post-graduate Diploma Recreation Management (Distinction) Dunfermline College of Physical Education – Edinburgh.

1984 BSc Hons. Social Studies (Politics Major) University of Plymouth.

• Post-Doctoral activity - Sport and the politics of development
• Doctoral research - British foreign relations and the Olympic movement
• Masters research - Sport and European politics

• Sport and international politics - in particular sport and diplomatic discourse
• Sport and development - including alternative development discourses
• Sport and disability rights

• Sport policy and funding
• Sport and disability
• Sport governance

Forthcoming (2011) - Beacom A. & Levermore R. ‘International Relations and Sport' in: Maguire J. (ed) Handbook of the Social Sciences of Sport. Champaign IL: Human Kinetics

Forthcoming (2010) - Beacom A. & Read L. ‘Right to Play and the Challenge of Sustaining Development through Sport’ in: Houlihan B. & Green M (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Sports Development. London: Routledge.

Levermore R. & Beacom A. (eds) (2009) Sport and International Development. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Beacom A. & Levermore R. ‘International Policy and Sport-in-Development’ in: Girginov V. (ed) (2008) Management of Sport Development. Oxford: Butterworth-Hienemann.

Beacom A. (March 2007) ‘A Question of Motives: Sport reciprocity and international development assistance’, European Sports Management quarterly. Vol. 7 (1) pp. 81-107.

Beacom A. ‘A Changing Discourse? British Diplomacy and The Olympic Movement’, in; Levermore R. & Budd A. (eds.) (2004) Sport in International Relations – an emerging relationship. London: Frank Cass.

Beacom A. (Nov 2000)‘Sport and International Relations: A Case for Cross-disciplinary Investigation’, The Sports Historian, No.20 (2) pp. 1-23.

Beacom A. (Nov 1998) ‘Indigenous Sport and the Search for Belonging’, The Sports Historian,No.18 (2) pp. 50-77.