Dr Ian Pritchard

Senior Lecturer
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School of Allied and Public Health
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Dr Ian Pritchard

Joined the Department in April 2010 and has been Programme Leader for the BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Sciences course since August 2010.

Prior to commencing a career in higher education, Ian served for 14 years in the British Army as a combat engineer and physical training instructor. As an academic, he has previously been employed as a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise, and an Undergraduate Programme Leader, at both the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, and the University of the West of Scotland in Hamilton.

Ian teaches on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules: 

  • Introduction to the Sociology of Sport and Exercise (Level 4)
  • Research Methods & Study Skills in Sport & Exercise Sciences (Level 4)
  • Contemporary Issues in Sport (Level 5)
  • Research Methods in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise (Level 5)
  • Issues in Sports Development and Policy (Level 6)
  • Issues in Sport, Health and Exercise (Level 6)
  • Dissertation in Sport & Exercise Sciences (Level 6)
  • Emergence and Development of Modern Sport (MSc)
  • Research Methods (MSc)
  • Sociology of Sports Development and Sports Policy (MSc)
  • Dissertation in MSc Sociology of Sport & Exercise (MSc)

Ian also supervises dissertation students at undergraduate and Masters level specialising in the Sociology of Sport.

Research interests:

  • Sport and National Identity (British and Welsh ID)
  • Sport and Popular Culture (Music, Dance & Film)
  • Sports History (19th Century Britain)
  • Sport & Political Philosophy (Neo-Marxist/Leftist Theories of Sport)

Selected publications

Pritchard, I.J. (2012) ‘Beer and Britannia’: public-house culture and the construction of nineteenth-century British-Welsh industrial identity. Nations and Nationalism 18 (2), 2012,

Mclean, M. & Pritchard, I.J. (2008) “Chapter 5 – History for Sports Coaches” in Jones, R.L., Hughes, M. & Kingston, K. An Introduction to Sports Coaching: From Science and Theory to Practice. Inc.pp.52-63. London: Palgrave.

Pritchard, I.J. (2006) Leisure & National Identity in the South Wales  Coalfield. Doctoral Thesis: Cardiff, University of Wales.

BA (Hons) 1st Class, Cert RM, PhD