I grew up in Aberdeen and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a 1st class BSc in Mathematics. After a short time in the pensions industry, my desire for a career change led me to complete a MA (Distinction) in Sports Development at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education.

Following this period of study, I enjoyed working for 3½ years with the Youth Sport Development Project in Dundee. This project sought to develop sport in four Social Inclusion Partnership areas of Dundee as well as utilise sport as a tool for social inclusion.

I joined the Institute of Youth Sport at Loughborough University in 2003. I primarily worked on the large-scale national evaluation of the New Opportunities for PE and Sport programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund. I was also involved in other research work on the Cricket Foundation’s Chance to shine programme and on sports organisations in Zambia that utilise sport as a context to deliver education on HIV and AIDS. As part of this research, I visited Zambia in the summers of 2006 and 2007.

I joined the University of Southampton in September 2007 and, in March 2008, I completed my PhD through Loughborough University which examined partnership working across PE, school and community sport in local authorities. I am currently working to continue to develop my research interests around issues in the local delivery in sport. Among the issues that particularly interest me are the complexities of partnership working, the sustainability of sports programmes and the use of sport as a tool for social development (particularly in Zambia).

Away from work, I enjoy almost all sports but I am primarily involved in hockey decreasingly as a player but also as a coach of both junior and senior players.

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• Books
• Banda, Davies, Lindsey, Iain, Jeanes, Ruth and Kay, Tess (2008) Partnerships involving sports-for-development NGOs and the fight against HIV / AIDS. Research in Lusaka, Zambia, 2007 , York, UK, York St John University, 61pp.
• Selection of International Conference Papers
• Lindsey, Iain and Hamilton, Ian (2009) Trying to catch the fog: can ‘active research’ contribute to enhancing a sports development partnership? In European Sports Development Network Conference, Nottingam, UK, 04-05 Sep 2009.
• Lindsey, Iain (2009) Sport- and sustainable- development: reconciling two contested concepts in theory and practice. In, 4th Congress of Economics of Sport, Gijon, Spain, 8-9 May 2009.
• Book Chapters
• Houlihan, B. and Lindsey, I. (2008) Networks and partnerships in sports development. In, Girginov, Vassil (ed.) Management of Sports Development Oxford, UK, Elsevier.
• Journal Articles
• Lindsey, Iain (2009) Collaboration in local sport services in England: issues emerging from case studies of two local authority areas. International Journal of Sport Policy, 1, (1), 71-88. (doi:10.1080/19406940802681210)
• Lindsey, I. (2008) Conceptualising sustainability in sports development. Leisure Studies, 27, (3), 279-294

• Lindsey, I (2006) Local partnerships in the United Kingdom for the New Opportunities for PE and Sport programme: a policy network analysis. European Sport Management Quarterly, 6, (2), 167-184.
• Selection of International Conference Papers
• Lindsey, Iain (2009) Governance of Lottery Sport Programmes: national direction of local partnerships in the new opportunities for PE and Sport Programme. In, Political Studies Association, Sport and Politics Study Group Annual Conference - The Governance and Regulation of Sport, Birkbeck University, London, UK, 20-21 Feb 2009. .
• Lindsey, I. (2008) Cross-cultural transfer of sports research from developing to developed world: the case of Zambia and the UK. In, Studying Sports Development: Researching, teaching and writing in the field, Brunel University, London, UK, 25-26 Apr 2008. . http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/51061/
• Lindsey, Iain (2008) New modes of governance in local PE, school and community sport? Findings from case studies of three local authority areas. In, PSA Sport and Politics Specialist Study Group: 2nd Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, 15th Feb 2008.
• Research Reports
• Lindsey, Iain (2008) Partnership and collaboration in sport: a study in the context of the New Opportunities for PE and Sport programme in three English cities. Loughborough University, School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, PhD Thesis, 362pp.