Dr Daniel Kilvington

Course Director and Reader Leeds Beckett University

  • Leeds West Yorkshire

Dr Daniel Kilvington's teaching and research specialism explores 'race', sport and new media.

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Biography

Dr Daniel Kilvington is Reader and Course Director in Media, Communication, Cultures. His teaching and research specialism explores race/ethnicity, racism and anti-racism in sport and new media spaces.

He is widely published and has written five books: Race, Racism and Sports Journalism (2012); Sport, Racism and Social Media (2015); British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry (2016); Sport and Discrimination (2017), and Online Research Methods in Sports Studies (2019), all with Routledge.

His research has explored the lived experiences of British South Asian communities within English football and his works have put forward a series of recommendations for reform. His other work has focused on the lack of minoritised ethnic coaches and managers within football. He is also a leading scholar in the field of online hate/abuse within sport, particularly football.

Dr Kilvington continues to work on external grants with funding bodies and stakeholders. In 2021, he was awarded an AHRC Large Grants Award for the project “Tackling Online Hate in Football” and in 2022, he started a project with the English Premier League examining anti-racist football coaching. Moreover, he works in collaboration with Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) in challenging far-right discourses online within football.

Dr Kilvington is the co-founder of the annual international Sport and Discrimination conference series; co-founder of the Talking Race podcast series; the founder of the inclusion initiative, Creating and Developing Coaches, and the trustee of the Zesh Rehman Foundation (ZRF).

Industry Expertise

Writing and Editing
Education/Learning
Sport - Professional
Research

Areas of Expertise

Race
Ethnicity
Racism
Anti-Racism
Discrimination
Social Media
New Media
Sport
Sports Media
Football

Education

University of Sunderland

B.A.

Media, Culture and Communication

2008

University of Sunderland

Ph.D.

Media and Cultural Studies

2013

University of Sunderland

M.A.

News Journalism

2009

Affiliations

  • Zesh Rehman Foundation

Languages

  • English

Media Appearances

'Cultural racism' excluding British South Asians from football governance roles, new report finds

Sky Sports  online

2022-02-17

Dr Daniel Kilvington, one of the academics behind the study, told Sky Sports News: ""Access to the system was considered a struggle formany of the participants in the research. Some suggested that it felt a bit like a cul-de-sac of a career. Nepotism was a common theme, across all levels, as many positions are filled through people's personal networks.

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Race and the Sport Media part 2 with Leon Mann

Talking Race Podcast  

2021-11-16

Part 2 of 2: In part 2 of our episode focusing on race and the sport media, we're joined by sports producer, broadcaster, and founder of the Black Collective of Media in Sport (BCOMS), Leon Mann.

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Government vows to 'step in' if Yorkshire and ECB do not deal with racism crisis

Sky Sports  online

2021-11-09

Dr Dan Kilvington, a senior lecturer at the Leeds Beckett University who has written extensively on issues of race and racism within sport, says that the issue is going through a pivotal time in history.

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Articles

The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate

Media, Culture & Society

2020

Cyber hate is increasing. Every 30 seconds, a woman, somewhere, receives an abusive comment on Twitter (Amnesty International). And, it is estimated that around 20% of college students in the United States have been cyber-bullied. This article explores the motivational factors encouraging online hate and abuse.

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Tackling Social Media Abuse? Critically Assessing English Football’s Response to Online Racism

Communication & Sport

2019

Although English football has, to some extent, managed the problem of racism in and around football matches, recent years have seen an increase in football-related racist content published on social media. Footballers are frequently the target or subject of such abuse and occasionally the source of it.

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Two decades and little change: British Asians, football and calls for action

Soccer & Society

2019

Only ten British Asian professional footballers are competing in England out of approximately 4000 despite there being a population of 3.6 million in England and Wales. Just six British Asian footballers between the ages of 16 to 18 years old were attached to the 72 Football League academies in 2009 out of over 1300 players.

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