Dr John Hayton

Dr. John Hayton is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Development. John has previously taught at the Universities of Durham, Hertfordshire and Liverpool John Moores University. John gained his PhD in Social Policy and Sociology from Durham University in 2014 and has since gone on to publish widely in areas such as: sport volunteering, sport-based interventions, sport and disability, sport management, sport business and football club re-branding, austerity and sport, and the role and management of non-profit organisations in the delivery of sport, physical activity and physical recreation. John's current areas of research study include: sport event volunteering; resource mobilisation in charity-led inclusive physical activity programmes, and networks of inclusion and exclusion in community physical activity programming.

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• Challenges and Opportunities for Community Sport Coach Development: An appreciative inquiry project, Allen, J., Chapman, R., Nichol, A., Whitehead, A., Johns, K., Carroll, M., Hayton, J., Hall, E., Potrac, P., Ryrie, A., Lascu, A., Cronin, C. 9 Oct 2025
• Developing Sports Volunteering, Hayton, J., Findlay-King, L., Marks, K. 23 Sep 2025, Management of Sports Development, London, Routledge
• Exploring Sports Students Orientations Toward Volunteering In A Post-1992 University, Hayton, J., Findlay-King, L., Allin, L., Ørneberg, T. 5 Sep 2025, European Association for Sport Management Conference
• Sponsorship of grassroots sport: a scoping review of research, Hindmarsh, M., Hayton, J. Jan 2025, In: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
• Examining the discursive production and deployment of diversity and inclusion in a UK-wide outdoor organisation, Allin, L., Avner, Z., Hayton, J. 2 Sep 2024, In: Leisure Studies
• Facilitating disability sport and physical recreation during the initial months of COVID-19: Examining organizational innovation in third sector organizations, Hayton, J. 3 Jul 2024, In: Leisure Sciences
• The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event “legacies”: A case study of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, McKenzie, J., Ludvigsen, J., Scott-Bell, A., Hayton, J. 1 Sep 2024, In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport
• Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis, Lindsey, I., Strittmatter, A., Hayton, J., O'Gorman, J. 2 Sep 2024, In: European Sport Management Quarterly
• An Examination of the Framed Meanings of Legacy Ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Hayton, J., McKenzie, J., Scott-Bell, A., Dixon, K., Ludvigsen, J. 11 Jul 2023, EASM 2023 conference proceedings, Leipzig, Germany, EASM
• Conclusions: Learning lessons from Implementing Sport Policy, Hayton, J., Lindsey, I., Keech, M. 18 Jul 2023, Implementing Sport Policy: Organisational Perspectives on the UK Sport System, London, Taylor & Francis

Jamal McKenzie ?'I Am Because We Are': Black Journeys Through Sport Volunteering in England, Encounters, Interpretations, and Resistance? Start Date: 18/01/2021 End Date: 01/06/2026

• Social Policy PhD September 01 2013
• Sports Science MSc
• Sport BA (Hons)
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2019