• 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
• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (UK)

• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Research Fellow (2024)
• Sociology of Sport Journal Early Career Researcher Award (2016)

Books

Wilson, B. & Millington, B. (Eds.). (2020). Sport and the environment: Politics and preferred futures.
Emerald Publishing Limited.

Millington, B. (2018). Fitness, technology & society: Amusing ourselves to life. Routledge.

Silk, M., Millington, B., Rich, E. & Bush, A. (Eds.). (2018). Re-thinking leisure in a digital age. Routledge.

Millington, B. & Wilson, B. (2016). The greening of golf: Sport, globalization and the environment. Manchester University Press.

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Lachance, E.L., Millington, B., & Naraine, M.L. (2026). Analytics in the Canadian sport industry: A Macro- level analysis of online job advertisements. Sports Innovation Journal, 7, 17-37.

Wilson, B. & Millington, B. (2026). Sport and the environment. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and physical culture in Canadian society (third edition) (pp. 357-380). Pearson.

Manley, A., Millington, B., & Williams, S.P. (2025). “It is an incredibly painstaking, time-taking domain to work in”: Examining the work-life tensions and meaningful experiences of data work in elite sport. Communication & Sport, 14(4), 1225–1243.

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L., Millington, B., Wilson, B., Ote, J., del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L., Ardizzi, M.& Bandoles, E. (2025). Bicycles and the potential of unstructured sport for development and peace.Leisure Sciences, 47(6), 1353-1375.

Millington, B., Naraine, M.L., Wanless, L., Safai, P. & Manley, A. (2025). Sport and the promise of Artificial Intelligence: Human and machine futures. Sociology of Sport Journal, 42(4), 341-350.

Millington, B. & Wilson, B. (2025). “What is lost so that other things can be sustained?”: The climate crisis, loss, and the afterlife of golf. Sociology of Sport Journal, 42(2), 180-189.

Millington, B., & Wilson, B. (2025). Prometheus on the tee: Human and non-human conflict in the context of golf. Annals of Leisure Research. Advance online publication: htps://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2025.2539971.

Naraine, M.L. & Millington, B. (2025). Digitalisation of sports development. In V. Girginov & M. Dowling (Eds.), Management of sports development (second edition) (pp. 391-405). Routledge.

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. & Ote, 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.

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) (pp. 330-354). Pearson.

Teaching

• Power, Politics, and Policy in Sport
• Professional Engagement for the Sport Industry
• Sport and Environmental Sustainability

Selected Service Roles

• Chair, Department of Sport Management, Brock University (2026-present)
• Associate Editor, Sociology of Sport Journal (2024-present)

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.