post

Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Sport and the Creative Industries

responsibilities

Course Leader Sports Management (Undergraduate)

brief biography

New Zealand- born Dr Charles Little is the course leader for the BA Sports Management programme. He holds a BA (Honours) degree in history from the University of Otago in New Zealand and a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Prior to arriving at london met he taught at the University of Otago and the Universtity of Teesside.

key teaching areas

• Sports management
• Socio-cultural issues in sport
• Study skills

research interests

• Sport and political boycotts (Case study - UDI-era Rhodesia)
• Sport and Identity
• Olympic politics

publications

• Little, C. (2009) Through Thick and Thin: The South Sydney Rabbitohs and their Community, Sydney: Walla Walla Press.
• Little, C. (2009, No Politics, Mucho Rugby: International Rugby Contacts with Rhodesia during the UDI Period, in P. Clastres, J. Belhoste, and P. Dietschy (eds.), Le rugby du village au global, forthcoming.
• Little, C. (2009) South East Asia in S. Pope and J. Nauright (eds.) Routledge Companion to Sports History, Oxford: Routledge.
• Little, C. (2007) ‘The "Hidden" History of the Birth of Rugby League in Australia: The significance of "local" factors in Sydney’s rugby split’, Sport in History, September 2007, 27.3, pp. 364-379.
• Little, C. (2006) ‘"Our George": Ex-Patriot Sportsmen and the Emergence of New Zealand’s National Identity, 1888-1905’, in Proceedings of 9th ISHPES Seminar, ISPHES, Ljubljana.
• Little, C. (2005) ‘Preventing ‘A Wonderful Break-Through for Rhodesia’: The British Government and the Exclusion of Rhodesia from the 1968 Mexico Olympics’, Olympika (The International Journal of Olympic Studies), XIV, pp. 47-68.
• Little, C. (2004) ‘More Green than Red: Sectarianism Rugby League in Otago, 1924-34’, Sporting Traditions, November 2004, 21.1, pp. 33-51.