Conferences
The Birkbeck Sports Business Centre holds regular research conferences examining key developments in the sports business sector. Details of future events will be posted on this page as soon as they are announced.
The 5th International Sport Business Symposium - London
Tuesday 7th August, 2012
Birkbeck College, University of London
The Olympic Games is the most prestigious sport event in the world which provides extraordinary sporting, social, cultural and environmental opportunities for the host city, region and country. This host city must make a colossal effort to not only fulfill all requirements to stage the Games, but also maximise the economic, social, environmental, political, and structural benefits that an Olympic Games can offer.
The "call for abstracts" is directed to researchers of all disciplines. The 5th International Sport Business Symposium calls for research papers directly related to the business of the Olympic Games; the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games, as well as prior and future Olympic, Youth, and Paralympic Games. Papers about Olympic media, legacy, tourism, consumers, organisations, finance, economics, environment, Paralympics, politics and other Olympic-related topics are welcome. The official language for abstracts and the Symposium is English
Details of how to submit an abstract are as follows.
2012 European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) / International Association of Sport Economists (IASE) Conference
Thursday 6th September/Friday 7th September, 2012
Birkbeck College, University of London
www.sporteconomics.eu / www.iasecon.net
Birkbeck Sport Business Centre is hosting the 4th European Conference in Sport Economics in London. This conference will again be a joint conference co-convened by the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) and the International Association of Sport Economists (IASE). The conference will be held on September 6th-7th September 2012 at Birkbeck College, University of London.
The conference is open to submissions covering all areas of sport economics. The scientific committee invites individuals to submit abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the conference programme by the deadline of April 15th, 2012. Conference paper proposals based on completed research or research in progress are acceptable.
Details of how to submit an abstract are as follows.
An archive of past conferences can be found below.
- Good Governance: The Road to Sporting Success: 20th September 2011
- The 2010 Birkbeck Sport Business Centre Conference on the Governance and Regulation of Sport - 15th-16th April, 2010.
- The Political Studies Association - Sport and Politics Study Group Annual Conference: The Governance and Regulation of Sport. Friday 20th – Thursday 21st February 2009.
- 'Feet-drain': an opportunity for players and a loss for nations? - Thursday 1st May 2008