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Assistant Professor

About

Dr Edward Loveman is an Assistant Professor, Researcher, and Visual Artist within the School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. With teaching experience from EYFS to Higher Education, they completed their doctoral studies at Bournemouth University in the Department of Sport & Event Management. Edward also holds an MRes in Sociology (Sport) and BA (Hons) in Sport & Social Science from the University of Bath. In addition to their teaching experience, Edward has several years’ experience working within various sports organisations both in a coaching and operational capacity.

Teaching

Undergraduate modules:

• DI105: Visual Practice and Curiosity
• IP317: Resistance and Representation
• GD106: Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development
• GD132: Sport and Sustainability
• GD204: Health and Sustainable Development
• GD328: The Future of Mega-Events

Postgraduate modules:

• GD912: Popular Movements and Sustainable Change (Not Running 26/27)

Pedagogy

Edward operates an integrative pedagogy. Believing in the multipotentialite nature of learning, Ed treats each individual student as having their own unique potential to positively impact society. They have an established background in creating effective and inclusive learning environments built on this learner-centred approach. Edward's focus on designing learning as an experience is aimed at providing students with a more holistic and authentic education, integrating multiple subjects and topics which students can connect to real world scenarios.

In practice, this approach often blends knowledge-based learning techniques with hands-on/experiential learning activities, allowing students to engage with and apply their learning in a meaningful way. Edward believes this helps students harness their own capabilities and interests, so that they can - in their own ways - deal with the magnitude and complexity of today’s global challenges, whilst recognising the power in effective collaboration to bridge cultural divides.

Research

Edward’s postqualitative research explores ‘mattering’ in everyday experience, with a particular interest in the role of leisure in how people experience a sense that they are important. Often working across disciplinary boundaries, their research is characterised by two interwoven strands: on one hand, Edward critically engages with contemporary formations of sport and physical health, interrogating in particular their broader sociological and embodied dimensions; on the other, they explore alternative narratives through play, myth and folklore, and magic and mysticism. Underpinning this is a commitment to radical and ethically engaged scholarship—advocating for the significance of otherworlds, creative practice, and experimental, sometimes subversive, methods that challenge dominant paradigms and cultivate more just, enchanted ways of knowing.

You can read Edward’s doctoral thesis .

Supervison

Edward is available to supervise postgraduate and doctoral students, and particularly welcomes proposals for projects related to their research interests.

MASc:

• Alice Davidson. Using Photo-Elicitation To Make Visible Women’s Everyday, Embodied Experiences Of The Manosphere (completed; 2024 Capstone Award Winner).
• Hannah Micuta (2025 PGT Award Winner). The sinister side of pesticides: How Syngenta maintains slow violence (creative submission; completed)

PhD:

• Ilaria Ravazzolo. Cooking Identity: A Gastrofeminist Study of (Grand)Mothers, Belonging and Identity (In progress).
• Benedict Odhiambo Omondi. Rethinking Charity and Empowerment: Community Radio, Refugee Voices and Agency in Northwestern Tanzania (In progress).

Publications

• Loveman, E., 2026. More Connected, Less Connection: Belonging, Leisure, and Artificial Intelligence. Leisure Sciences, 1–7.
• Loveman, E., 2025. Integrity and Sustainability in Sport, ÌÇÐÄTV, Environmental and Social Goals: Edited by Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Ioannis Konstantopoulos, Routledge 2025, Leisure Studies.

• Loveman, E. & Rupp, W., 2025. Walking the Waterways: Using Travel Diaries to (Re)Story the Canal. Scope (Art and Design) 29, 48-60.
• Loveman, E., 2025. Being in-between: A sensory autoethnography of otherworldly life. Journal of Imaginary Research (Vol. 10), 5-6.  
• Loveman, 2025. Voices from the field. In: Cook-Sather, A. & Kane, B., (Eds). Partnership work as practice of and preparation for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and precarity. International Journal for Students as Partners, 9(2), pp. 293–309.
• Loveman, E., 2024. Reimagining community festivals and events: critical and interdisciplinary perspectives: edited by Allan Stewart Jepson, Raphaela Stadler, and Trudie Walters, Routledge 2024, 242 pp., £39.99 (ebook), £135.00 (Hardback), Oxon, ISBN: 9781003429760 (ebk), Leisure Studies, 1–3.
• Loveman, E., MacKrill, J., & Glyn-Davies, A., 2024. . The Sociological Review Magazine [Online], 01 August 2024.
• Loveman, E., 2024. . Boundby [Online], 24 July 2024.
• Loveman, E., 2024. The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording. Leisure Sciences, 1–17.  
• Loveman, E., 2023. Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout. Leisure Sciences, 45 (2), pp.219-220.
• Loveman, E., 2021. . The Sociological Review Magazine [Online], 09 November 2021.
• Loveman, E., 2021. . In: Jackson, D., Bernstein, A., Butterworth, M., Cho, Y., Coombs, D.S., Devlin, M., Onwumechili, C., ed. Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport [online]. Austin, Texas: Centre for Sports Communication & Media.