Dr Mikhail Batuev

Assistant Professor

School: Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation

Dr Mikhail Batuev is an Assistant Professor in Sport Management.

Mikhail's research interests include evolution of youth sports, mega-sport events and contexts around them. Mikhail graduated with the PhD in Sport Studies from the University of Stirling in 2016, upon completion of his research project on organisational evolution of snowboarding, skateboarding and sport climbing. He also holds an MBA degree in Football Industries from the University of Liverpool, which he completed in 2007 after being awarded a prestigious UK Chevening scholarship.

Mikhail worked in various roles in professional sport business, including a football club and a player agency. Most notably, he worked for Red Bull GmbH, one of the world’s most iconic and innovative consumer brands, for many years in various sport marketing roles. During his time with the company, he contributed to a number of internationally recognised Red Bull sport events and athlete sponsorships.

Mikhail is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and have disseminated research outputs extensively in various formats, including reports, articles, and presentations. At Northumbria, he has served as Programme Leader for the MSc International Sport Management. This role involves managing a well-established postgraduate programme that produces high-quality graduates, employable across a wide range of international sport organisations.

Campus Address

Northumberland Building

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
The production of new sport cultures: the case of breaking, Batuev, M. 10 Oct 2025, Handbook on Sport and Culture, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
Government policy responses to Covid-19 in sport: a comparative study of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and the USA, Girginov, V., Chen, S., Alhakami, F., Batuev, M., Chalip, L. 3 Apr 2023, In: International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
Correction to: Training During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of 12,526 Athletes from 142 Countries and Six Continents (Sports Medicine, (2022), 52, 4, (933-948), 10.1007/s40279-021-01573-z), Washif, J., Farooq, A., Krug, I., Pyne, D., Verhagen, E., Taylor, L., Wong, D., Mujika, I., Cortis, C., Haddad, M., Ahmadian, O., Al Jufaili, M., Al-Horani, R., Al-Mohannadi, A., Aloui, A., Ammar, A., Arifi, F., Aziz, A., Batuev, M., Beaven, C., Beneke, R., Bici, A., Bishnoi, P., Bogwasi, L., Bok, D., Boukhris, O., Boullosa, D., Bragazzi, N., Brito, J., Cartagena, R., Chaouachi, A., Cheung, S., Chtourou, H., Cosma, G., Debevec, T., DeLang, M., Dellal, A., Dönmez, G., Driss, T., Peña Duque, J., Eirale, C., Elloumi, M., Foster, C., Franchini, E., Fusco, A., Galy, O., Gastin, P., Gill, N., Girard, O., Gregov, C., Halson, S., Hammouda, O., Hanzlíková, I., Hassanmirzaei, B., Haugen, T., Hébert-Losier, K., Muñoz Helú, H., Herrera-Valenzuela, T., Hettinga, F., Holtzhausen, L., Hue, O., Dello Iacono, A., Ihalainen, J., James, C., Janse van Rensburg, D., Joseph, S., Kamoun, K., Khaled, M., Khalladi, K., Kim, K., Kok, L., MacMillan, L., Mataruna-Dos-Santos, L., Matsunaga, R., Memishi, S., Millet, G., Moussa-Chamari, I., Musa, D., Nguyen, H., Nikolaidis, P., Owen, A., Padulo, J., Pagaduan, J., Perera, N., Pérez-Gómez, J., Pillay, L., Popa, A., Pudasaini, A., Rabbani, A., Rahayu, T., Romdhani, M., Salamh, P., Sarkar, A., Schillinger, A., Seiler, S., Setyawati, H., Shrestha, N., Suraya, F., Tabben, M., Trabelsi, K., Urhausen, A., Valtonen, M., Weber, J., Whiteley, R., Zrane, A., Zerguini, Y., Zmijewski, P., Sandbakk, Ø., Ben Saad, H., Chamari, K. 22 Oct 2022, In: Sports Medicine
COVID-19 lockdown: A Global Study Investigating the Effect of Athletes’ Sport Classification and Sex on Training Practices, Washif, J., Sandbakk, Ø., Seiler, S., Haugen, T., Farooq, A., Quarrie, K., Janse van Rensburg, D., Krug, I., Verhagen, E., Wong, D., Mujika, I., Cortis, C., Haddad, M., Ahmadian, O., Al Jufaili, M., Al-Horani, R., Al-Mohannadi, A., Aloui, A., Ammar, A., Arifi, F., Aziz, A., Batuev, M., Beaven, C., Beneke, R., Bici, A., Bishnoi, P., Bogwasi, L., Bok, D., Boukhris, O., Boullosa, D., Bragazzi, N., Brito, J., Cartagena, R., Chaouachi, A., Cheung, S., Chtourou, H., Cosma, G., Debevec, T., DeLang, M., Dellal, A., Dönmez, G., Driss, T., Peña Duque, J., Eirale, C., Elloumi, M., Foster, C., Franchini, E., Fusco, A., Galy, O., Gastin, P., Gill, N., Girard, O., Gregov, C., Halson, S., Hammouda, O., Hanzlíková, I., Hassanmirzaei, B., Hébert-Losier, K., Muñoz Helú, H., Herrera-Valenzuela, T., Hettinga, F., Holtzhausen, L., Hue, O., Dello Iacono, A., Ihalainen, J., James, C., Joseph, S., Kamoun, K., Khaled, M., Khalladi, K., Kim, K., Kok, L., MacMillan, L., Mataruna-Dos-Santos, L., Matsunaga, R., Memishi, S., Millet, G., Moussa-Chamari, I., Musa, D., Nguyễn, H., Nikolaidis, P., Owen, A., Padulo, J., Pagaduan, J., Perera, N., Pérez-Gómez, J., Pillay, L., Popa, A., Pudasaini, A., Rabbani, A., Rahayu, T., Romdhani, M., Salamh, P., Sarkar, A., Schillinger, A., Setyawati, H., Shrestha, N., Suraya, F., Tabben, M., Trabelsi, K., Urhausen, A., Valtonen, M., Weber, J., Whiteley, R., Zrane, A., Zerguini, Y., Zmijewski, P., Ben Saad, H., Pyne, D., Taylor, L., Chamari, K. 1 Aug 2022, In: International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
Training During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of 12,526 Athletes from 142 Countries and Six Continents, Washif, J., Farooq, A., Krug, I., Pyne, D., Verhagen, E., Taylor, L., Wong, D., Mujika, I., Cortis, C., Haddad, M., Ahmadian, O., Al Jufaili, M., Al-Horani, R., Al-Mohannadi, A., Aloui, A., Ammar, A., Arifi, F., Aziz, A., Batuev, M., Beaven, C., Beneke, R., Bici, A., Bishnoi, P., Bogwasi, L., Bok, D., Boukhris, O., Boullosa, D., Bragazzi, N., Brito, J., Cartagena, R., Chaouachi, A., Cheung, S., Chtourou, H., Cosma, G., Debevec, T., DeLang, M., Dellal, A., Dönmez, G., Driss, T., Peña Duque, J., Eirale, C., Elloumi, M., Foster, C., Franchini, E., Fusco, A., Galy, O., Gastin, P., Gill, N., Girard, O., Gregov, C., Halson, S., Hammouda, O., Hanzlíková, I., Hassanmirzaei, B., Haugen, T., Hébert-Losier, K., Muñoz Helú, H., Herrera-Valenzuela, T., Hettinga, F., Holtzhausen, L., Hue, O., Dello Iacono, A., Ihalainen, J., James, C., Janse van Rensburg, D., Joseph, S., Kamoun, K., Khaled, M., Khalladi, K., Kim, K., Kok, L., MacMillan, L., Mataruna-Dos-Santos, L., Matsunaga, R., Memishi, S., Millet, G., Moussa-Chamari, I., Musa, D., Nguyen, H., Nikolaidis, P., Owen, A., Padulo, J., Pagaduan, J., Perera, N., Pérez-Gómez, J., Pillay, L., Popa, A., Pudasaini, A., Rabbani, A., Rahayu, T., Romdhani, M., Salamh, P., Sarkar, A., Schillinger, A., Seiler, S., Setyawati, H., Shrestha, N., Suraya, F., Tabben, M., Trabelsi, K., Urhausen, A., Valtonen, M., Weber, J., Whiteley, R., Zrane, A., Zerguini, Y., Zmijewski, P., Sandbakk, Ø., Ben Saad, H., Chamari, K. 1 Apr 2022, In: Sports Medicine
Snowboarding and skateboarding, Batuev, M., Zipp, S., Robinson, L. 23 Jan 2020, Routledge Handbook of Global Sport, Taylor & Francis
International Governance of Action Sports: An Organisational Legitimacy Perspective, Batuev, M., Robinson, L. Mar 2019, Research Handbook on Sport Governance, Edward Elgar
Organizational evolution and the Olympic Games: the case of sport climbing, Batuev, M., Robinson, L. 27 Feb 2018, In: Sport in Society
What influences organisational evolution of modern sport: the case of skateboarding, Batuev, M., Robinson, L. Sep 2018, In: Sports, Business and Management
How skateboarding made it to the Olympics: an institutional perspective, Batuev, M., Robinson, L. 28 Sep 2017, In: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing