Associate Professor, Sport Management
My research examines historical, sociological, and managerial dimensions of sport. My specific interests lie with two areas of study:
1) Sport and environmental sustainability (including topics such as sport’s environmental implications, corporate environmentalism in sport, and sport for development and peace);
2) Sport media and technology (including topics such as sports analytics, communications in sport, and wearable fitness technology).
I am the author of Fitness, Technology, and Society: Amusing Ourselves to Life (Routledge), and co-author of The Greening of Golf: Sport, Globalization and the Environment (with Brian Wilson, Manchester University Press).
I have received funding for my research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
- Sports analytics
- Sport media
- Wearable technology
- Sport and environmental sustainability
- Sport for development and peace
- North American Society for Sport Management
- North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (Research Fellow)
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
Millington, B., Naraine, M., Wanless, L., Safai, P. & Manley, A. (Forthcoming). Sport and the promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and machine futures. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Millington, B. & Wilson, B. (2024). “What is lost so that other things can be sustained?”: The climate crisis, loss, and the afterlife of golf. Sociology of Sport Journal. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0216.
McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L., Millington, B., Wilson, B., Otte, J., del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L., Ardizzi, M. & Bandoles, E. (2023). Bicycles and the potential of unstructured sport for development and peace. Leisure Sciences. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2217161.
Couture, J., Millington, B. & Wilson, B. (2023). Who is the city for? Sports facilities and the case of Vancouver’s public golf courses. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15(1), 45-62.
McSweeney, M., Millington, B., Hayhurst, L., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M. & Otte, J. (2021). ‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(2), 194-211.
Wilson, B. & Millington, B. (Eds.). (2020). Sport and the environment: Politics and preferred futures. Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Millington, B. & Wilson, B. (2020). Golf, the environment, and development: Past, present, and future. In S. Darnell & R. Millington (Eds.), Sport, development and environmental sustainability (pp. 35-50). Routledge.
Wilson, B. & Millington, B. (2020). Sport and the environment. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and physical culture in Canadian society (Second edition). Pearson.
- Power, politics and policy in sport
- Professional engagement for the sport industry
- Social responsibility for sports, recreation and health
I am interested in supervising graduate student research related to my research interests, though my availability varies from year to year. Please contact me via email to discuss possible graduate student opportunities before applying.
I am interested in supervising undergraduate theses and directed studies related to my research interests, though my availability varies from year to year. Please contact me via email to discuss possible undergraduate student opportunities.
