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December 2012For immediate release

New Professors appointed at Leeds Metropolitan

Leeds Metropolitan University is welcoming two new professors to its

Carnegie Faculty.

Professor Kevin Hannam has joined the University as Professor of Tourism

Mobilities. Professor Andrew Sparkes is set to take up his post from 1

February 2013 as Professor of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure.

Professor Carlton Cooke, Associate Dean of Carnegie Research, commented:

We are delighted to welcome Professors Kevin Hannam and Andrew

Sparkes to Leeds Metropolitan University and the Carnegie Faculty. The

Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure will be all the stronger for their

contributions, given that they are both leading researchers in their chosen

fields of study.

Professor Hannam joins Leeds Met from the University of Sunderland, where

he was Associate Dean (Research) and Head of the Department of Tourism,

Hospitality and Events. He is the founding co-editor of the Routledge journal

Mobilities(with John Urry and Mimi Sheller) and sits on the editorial board of

the Journal of Heritage Tourism, Tourist Studies and Annals of Tourism

Research. He has published books on tourism and led substantial research

projects in collaboration with other European universities as well as with

industry.

Professor Sparkes is currently Professor of Sport and Body Pedagogy at

Liverpool John Moores University and his research interests revolve around

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the ways that people experience different forms of embodiment over time in a

variety of contexts. He has published extensively across a range of disciplines

in international journals and has contributed chapters in leading edited books.

His latest co-authored book, entitled Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise &

Health: From Process to Product, is due for publication by Routledge in 2013.

Professor Sparkes currently serves on the advisory or editorial board of

twelve international journals and is currently leading a 30,000 funded project

for the English Rugby Football Union Injured Players Foundation,

investigating narrative transformations and posttraumatic growth following

spinal cord injury for players and their families.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the Communications

team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

Leeds Metropolitan University has over 27,000 students and around

2,800 staff.

The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor

Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds.

Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and

Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and

Carnegie.

The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed that

the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work, further

study or both six months after leaving university was 91.87%.

Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was awarded

the CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.

In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People &

Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally friendlyuniversities, for the sixth consecutive year.