Professor Richard Haynes

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Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Richard Haynes

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Richard Haynes is Professor of Media Sport in the Division of Communications, Media and Culture.

Richard began his academic career as a Research Assistant in the Unit for Law and Popular Culture creating one of the largest collections of football fanzines from the 1980s and 1990s now held by the National Football Museum. He completed his ESRC-funded PhD on the relationships between television and football at the University of Strathclyde (1993-96) before joining the University of Stirling as Research Fellow investigating men viewing violence funded by the Broadcasting Standards Commission (1996-98). As a member of staff in the Division of Communications, Media and Culture he has subsequently conducted research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust, Creative Scotland, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Scottish Government. 

His latest book 'Streaming the Formula One Rivalry: Sport and the Media in the Platform Age' co-authored with Raymond Boyle was published by Peter Lang in 2024. His book, 'BBC Sport in Black and White' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) was awarded the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize in 2017 for the best sport history book of the year.

He is PI on the AHRC commercialisation project ‘GOALDen Memories’ producing cultural reminiscence video resources for partner Memories Scotland. This is a follow-on impact project based on the project GOALD, Generating Older Active Lives Digitally on which he was co-investigator, funded as part of the UKRI/ISCF Social Behavioural and Design Research Programme (ESRC, £1.6m). He also leads the evaluation of the NLHF funded project 'Football for All! Celebrating 600 years of football in Scotland' run by the Scottish Football Museum. In 2022, Richard led the NLHF funded heritage project “Fae Raploch To Elland Road: Remembering Billy Bremner” working with communities in Stirling and Leeds. He is a member of a group seeking to develop a memorial to the former Scotland football player and captain Billy Bremner in his home town of Stirling.

With the University Archivist, Karl Magee, Richard works closely with Team Scotland to conserve and publicly exhibit their archive. They also work with a number of sport organisations and museums including the Bill McLaren Foundation for whom they co-lead a digitalisation project and volunteer programme.

Richard's principal research interests focus on the inter-relationships between sport, the media and popular culture. His work on communications and sport is widely referenced and used by students across the world. He has recently published work on: the history of sports broadcasting, sports journalism and photojournalism, sport on television, community sport heritage, the vernacular photography of sport, football heroes and heroines, and football club ownership and cultural traditions. He is one of three editors of the Communication, Sport and Society Series for the publisher Peter Lang.

Richard is currently PI on GOALDen Memories an AHRC follow-on commercialisation award from GOALD (Generating Older Active Lives Digitally) funded by the UKRI/ISCF Social, Behavioural and Design Research Programme (ESRC).

In 2022 Richard and Dr Karen Fraser curated an online exhibition 'Fae Raploch to Elland Road' to celebrate the early life and football career of Billy Bremner as part of an NLHF funded sport heritage project. https://collections.stir.ac.uk/billybremner/ He is now working with the Scottish Football Supporters Association, Leeds United fans and community groups to develop a permanent memorial to Bremner in The Raploch, Stirling.

With Dr Karen Fraser he is currently evaluating the Scottish Football Museum's NLHF project 'Football for All: 600 Years of Scottish Football' (2022-2025).

He is on the advisory panel for the forthcoming exhibition 'Voice of the Fans' being developed by the British Library and Leeds Central Library, celebrating the creative culture of football fanzines and fan-created media.

He is academic curator with the university archivist Karl Magee of the exhibition 'Hosts and Champions: Scotland in the Commonwealth Games' initially created as part of the Glasgow 2014 Festival and now touring Scotland. Further information about the exhibition can be found on this Research Spotlight: https://www.stir.ac.uk/research/research-spotlights/scotlands-sporting-heritage/ and the University Archive pages: http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/archives/projects/hostsandchamps 

Richard's ongoing research includes a focus on the inter-relationships between sport and the media. He welcomes applications from doctoral students interested in researching media sport, social media, media history and heritage, the creative industries, issues of media sport representation, identities and journalism. He is a member of the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy and the Scottish Studies working group.

He co-ordinates the Sport and Culture Research Group for postgraduate research students and early-career researchers. He currently supervises doctoral research in: sport documentaries; sport archives, heritage and reminiscence; the cultural history of swimming in Glasgow, and the formative history of Scottish football.

Education

BA (Hons)
Leeds Metropolitan University

MPhil (Law)
Manchester Metropolitan University

PhD (English)
University of Strathclyde

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Scotland's Sporting Heritage - The Hosts and Champions Exhibition
University of Stirling

https://www.stir.ac.uk/…orting-heritage/
The Hosts and Champions exhibition was based on the Commonwealth Games Scotland archive held in the university archives. Originally part of the cultural festival for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games it became a travelling exhibition.

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