I’ll be contributing to this event at the end of May….
The City Of Manchester stadium, a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Now renamed as the Etihad Stadium and home to Manchester City football club.
A Sporting Chance: the legacies of mega-events for post-industrial British cities
23rd and 24th May 2012
Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester
Comparing the city of Manchester, ten years after it hosted the Commonwealth Games, with London – host to the Olympic Games in 2012, this two day workshop invites critical inter-disciplinary discussion and evaluation of the legacies of sporting mega-events for post-industrial British cities.
The workshop is funded by the new Urban Experiments research theme at CRESC and brings together twelve academics whose research is concerned, in various ways, with exploring the socio-economic, political and material transformations brought about by post-industrialisation and/or sporting mega events billed as catalysts for urban regeneration.
Speakers include:
Mike Raco, Professor of Urban and Regional Governance, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, London.
Dr Adam Brown, Director and founder member of Substance research cooperative, Manchester
Professor John Gold, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.
Professor John Horne, Professor of Sport and Sociology, University of Central Lancashire
Dr Larissa Davies, Senior Research Fellow Sport Industry Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University
Dr. Andrew Smith, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster
James Kennell, Director Economic Development Resource Centre, University of Greenwich Business School.
Camilla Lewis, PhD candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Beth Carley, PhD candidate, Cathy Marsh Centre for Survey and Social Research, University of Manchester
Gillian Evans, RCUK Research Fellow, CRESC, University of Manchester
Allan Cochrane, Professor of Urban Studies, Social Sciences, Open University
For more information and to reserve a place contact K.D.ho@open.ac.uk
Dr James Kennell 
One response to “A Sporting Chance: the legacies of mega-events for post-industrial British cities”
Hello James, This looks interesting. I have no idea of the reference but I came across some research on the USA which warned cities off hoping that subsidising large sporting stadia would brinf benefits to their surrounding area, so it will be interesting to see what this event says.
I ought to meet up for another chat soon.
All the best,
Steve