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Professor of Sport Management, University of Stirling

With a Master’s degree and a PhD from Loughborough University, Leigh is an expert in organisational performance management and investigates the principles of management that make sport organisations more effective. She has an international reputation for her research into the capacity of Olympic sport organisations and has a specialist research profile in the area of the effectiveness of National Federations and National Olympic Committees in developing sport systems. She works extensively with Olympic sport organisations throughout the world and since 2004 has been an advisor to the Olympic Solidarity Commission of the International Olympic Committee on their two global Sports Administration Programmes.

She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and book chapters and has spoken on the topic at numerous national and international conferences. Leigh is Editor of Managing Leisure: An International Journal and is on the editorial board of the European Sport Management Quarterly, Leisure Studies and Sport Management Review. She is Director of Governance and Compliance for Commonwealth Games Scotland.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Sport Management, University of Stirling