Associate Professor Bob Stewart

Bob Stewart

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Phone: +61 3 9919 3263

Associate Professor, School of Sport and Exercise Science

Bob Stewart is an Associate Professor in the School of Sport and Exercise Science

Bob has written extensively on the commercial and managerial progress of Australian Rules football. He is a co-author of A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football, published by Penguin/Viking in 2008, and the editor of The Games are not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia published by MUP in 2007.

He has also written on football fandom and the ways in which fan attitudes and behaviours have changed over the past 30 years.

In partnership with the Australian Drug Foundation and the Turning Point Drug Treatment Centre, Bob is currently researching drug use cultures in elite and community sport, and sub-cultural practices in gyms and fitness centres

He has a special interest in player regulation in professional team sports, and the ways in which hyper-commercial processes (also known as neoliberalism) shape the structure and conduct of contemporary sport.

Recent publications

Stewart. B. And Smith, A. (2010) The role of ideology in shaping the drug use policies in Australian sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 45 (2) 187-198.
Stewart. B. And Smith, A. (2010) Player and athlete attitudes to drugs in Australian sport; implications for policy development, International Journal of Sport Policy, 2 (1) 65-84.
Smith. A., and Stewart, B. (2010) The influence of context on player and athlete attitudes to drugs in sport, Sport Management Review, 10 (2) 22-33.
Smith, A., and Stewart, B. (2010) The special features of sport revisited, Sport Management Review, 10 (1) 1-11.
Stewart B. and Smith, A (2008) Drug Use in Sport: Implications for public policy, Journal of Sport and Social issues, Vol 32 (3) pp.278-298.
Smith, A and Stewart B. (2008) Drug policy in sport: hidden assumptions and inherent contradictions, Drug and Alcohol Review, Vol 27 (March) pp.123-129.
Stewart, B. (Editor) (2007) The Games are Not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia, Melbourne University Publishing, 368 pages. ISBN 0552 85366
Stewart, B. (2007) ‘Drug Use in Australian Sport: A Brief History’, Sporting Traditions: The Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, Vol.24, (2), pp.20-33
Stewart, B., Nicholson, M., Smith, A. and Westerbeek, H. (2004) Australian Sport: Better by Design? The Evolution of Sport Policy in Australia, Routledge, 208 pages. ISBN 0415340462

 

Research outputs and inputs

Publications
10 scholarly books, 15 book chapters, and 35 refereed journal articles

Postgraduate research students and fellows

 

11 PhD, 3 Masters 3 Honours

Research grants

 

  • ARC-Linkage Grant $250,000 (2006)
  • The Influence of Context on Player Attitudes to Drugs: Implications for Sport Policy in Australia; Victoria University Research Grant $27,000 (2007)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility in Community Sport

Other major research achievements

Research Leader: Inter-model project on Theory Building in Sports and Leisure Practices.

 

 

     

    Expertise

    • Australian Rules Football
    • cultural drivers of sport practice
    • Sport Policy
    • sport regulation

    Page last updated: Thursday 10 February 2011