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Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Sloanes, Owen (2025) Coastal Communities and Educational Inequalities: Investigating the Barriers to Accessing University Among Young People on the North Yorkshire Coast. Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Chapman, Georgia, Cock, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9355-8358 and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2024) A Matter of Distinction? A Case Study Examining the Development of a Sporting Habitus Amongst Male Sixth-Form Pupils in a Private School in the United Kingdom. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 7 (2). pp. 129-153.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Lashua, Brett and Spracklen, Karl (2024) Khat-chewing, adiaphorization and morality: Rethinking ethics in the age of the synopticon. Critical Criminology, 32 (2). pp. 425-439.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Ritchie, Lewis (2024) Service children and barriers to higher education in the United Kingdom: How can service children be better supported in accessing university? Citizenship, Teaching and Learning, 19 (3). pp. 345-361.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2021) Pugilism, power, and the cultural politics of celebrity: Charting Vitali Klitschko's rise from heavyweight champion to Mayor of Kiev. Journal of Global Sport Management.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Lashua, Brett and Spracklen, Karl (2021) Khat-chewing, moral spacing and belonging: Sociological insights into the cultural space of the mafrish in the leisure lives of older and middle-aged British-Somali males. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 4. pp. 1-22.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2019) Sport, Power and Politics: Exploring Sport and Social Control within the Changing Context of Modernity. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 2 (4). pp. 385-402.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Spracklen, Karl and Lashua, Brett D. (2018) Khat-chewing in liminal leisure spaces: British-Somali youth on the margins. Leisure Studies, 37 (4). pp. 440-451.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2018) Grime music and dark leisure: exploring grime, morality and synoptic control. Annals of Leisure Research, 21 (4). pp. 480-492.

Watson, Nick J., Parker, A. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2018) Sport, theology and dementia: reflections on The Sporting Memories Network, UK. Quest.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2017) The khat controversy: dark leisure in a liquid modern world. Annals of Leisure Research. pp. 1-16.

Riches, Gabby, Spracklen, Karl and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2016) Special issue of journal for cultural research: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives. Journal for Cultural Research, 20 (1). pp. 1-3.

Fletcher, Thomas and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2016) Strangers of the north: South Asians, cricket and the culture of ‘Yorkshireness’. Journal for Cultural Research, 20 (1). pp. 86-100.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2014) Looking for Leroy: illegible black masculinities. NORMA, 9 (2). pp. 141-144.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2014) Somali Men and Khat Chewing as Resistance. Leisure Studies Association newsletter, 98. pp. 72-80.

Book Section

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2024) Sport, leisure and social justice in the age of precarity and prosumption. In: Lawrence, Stefan, Hill, Joanne and Mowatt, Rasul, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice. Routledge, pp. 45-56

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2024) Zygmunt Bauman and the liquid modern world. In: Spracklen, Karl, Lashua, Brett and Yuen, Felice, (eds.) Research Handbook of the Sociology of Leisure. Camberley, Edward Elgar Publishing Compan (In Press)

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2021) Voices from the margins: Khat-chewing, devotional leisure and ambivalence in the British-Somali diaspora. In: De Martini-Ugolotti, Nicola and Caudwell, Jayne, (eds.) Leisure and forced migration: Reframing critical analysis of lives lived in the asylum system. London, Routledge

Watson, Nick J., Parker, A. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2018) Sport, Theology and Dementia: Reflections on The Sporting Memories Network, UK. In: Watson, Nick J., Hargaden, K. and Brock, B., (eds.) Theology, Disability and Sport: Social Justice Perspectives. Routledge

Fletcher, Thomas and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2017) Strangers of the north: South Asians, cricket and the culture of ‘Yorkshireness’. In: Riches, Gabby, Spracklen, Karl and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, (eds.) Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives. Routledge

Riches, G., Rankin-Wright, A., Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Kuppan, S. (2017) Moving Forward: Critical Reflections of Doing Social Justice Research. In: Long, Jonathan, Fletcher, Thomas and Watson, Becky, (eds.) Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. Routledge

Spracklen, K., Sharpe, B. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2017) Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. In: Spracklen, K., Sharpe, B. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave MacMillan

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2017) Leisure in the Current Interregnum: Exploring the Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman. In: Spracklen, K., Lashua, B., Sharpe, E. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 799-816

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2017) Structural theories of leisure. In: Spracklen, K., Lashua, B., Sharpe, E. and Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 453-456

Monograph

Green, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0446, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Mierzwinski, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-5865 (2023) Investigating the impact and value of anti-racist pedagogy within the undergraduate sport and leisure curriculum: A York St John University case study. Project Report. Leisure Studies Association.

Hague, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-4713, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Madigan, Daniel J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1818 (2020) The 'Goalball Family' - Executive Summary. Project Report. UK Goalball / York St John University.

Hague, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-4713, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Madigan, Daniel J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1818 (2020) The 'Goalball Family': An exploration of the social value of Goalball amongst players and communities in the UK. Technical Report. UK Goalball / York St John University.

Hague, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-4713, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Smith, Helen and Harland, Rebecca (2020) Youth, community and social well-being: Investigating the role of youth groups in the health and social well-being of young in semi-rural areas in the North of England. Technical Report. Office for Students/ Future HY / York St John University.

Hague, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-4713, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Smith, Helen and Harland, Rebecca (2020) Youth, community and social-wellbeing - Executive Report. Project Report. Office for Students/ Future HY / York St John University.

Ritchie, Lewis, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Bottomley, Stuart and Smith, Helen (2019) Service children’s thoughts on applying for university: a qualitative study exploring why young people from military families in North Yorkshire are under-represented in higher education institutions. Project Report. York St John University, York.

Sloanes, Owen, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Bottomley, Stuart and Smith, Helen (2019) Barriers to accessing university in coastal communities: a qualitative study exploring why young people living along the North Yorkshire Coast are underrepresented in Britain's higher education institutions. Project Report. NCOP York & North Yorkshire / York St John University.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2012) A liquid modern analysis of skin bleaching in Jamaica. CERS Working Paper 2012. Working Paper. University of Leeds, Leeds.

Conference or Workshop Item

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Mierzwinski, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-5865 and Green, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0446 (2024) Investigating the impact and value of anti-racist pedagogy within the undergraduate sport and leisure curriculum. In: Lesiure Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, 9th to 11th of July 2024, University of the West of Scotland.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2023) Decolonising the Curriculum: What is it? Why do it? In: Teacher and Advisor Conference, 12 December 2023, York.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2023) ‘Don’t forget the juicy fruits’: Khat-chewing, diaspora and the glocal identities of British-Somali Youth. In: Leisure Studies Conference 2023: Re-creating Leisure, 11th-13th July 2023, Bournemouth University.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2022) Leisure, power and social justice in an age of uncertainty: Investigating the relationship between power, precarity and the rise of the prosumer. In: Leisure Studies Association Conference, 12th - 14th of July 2022, University of Falmouth.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2022) Routledge Book Launch Event: Leisure and Forced Migration. In: Routledge Book Launch: Leisure and Forced Migration, 7th July 2022, Online.

Hague, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-4713, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Madigan, Daniel J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1818 (2021) NPS0075 - National Plan for Sport and Recreation. In: UK Parliament: National Plan for Sport and Recreation, 24th November 2021, Millbank House.

Other

Green, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0446, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 and Mierzwinski, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-5865 (2023) Decolonising the Curriculum and Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Sport and Leisure Education. York St John University.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2018) From a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’, grime has become a voice for the voiceless. The Conversation.

Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2015) Book Review: Fish and Chips: A History. Taylor & Francis.