Martin Atherton

Course Leader for Deaf Studies & School Disability Co-ordinator

Education and Social Science
University of Central Lancashire, Livesey House 218
+(44) 1772 893115
matherton1@uclan.ac.uk

Qualifications

Member of UCLan Deaf Studies team since 1998
Graduated UCLan 1997 BA (Hons) Deaf Studies with History
PhD in Sports History (Leicester de Montfort) 2005
PGCE in Research Student Supervision 2008

Member of the Institute for Football Studies and its successor the International Football Institute since its inception

Current committee membership:

School Research and Knowledge Transfer committee
School Quality committee
Faculty Disability Co-ordinators committee

Current Research and Supervision

Member of the UCLan History Research Cluster
Personal research interests are in deaf history (particularly leisure and sport, social history and deaf politics), sports history (particularly football) and relationships in families with deaf members
Supervision of Deaf Studies undergraduate students taking work placements (DF2021 and DF3021) and dissertations

Teaching

• DF1113 Deaf Community and Culture
• DF2014 Conducting Qualitative Research in the Deaf  Community
• DF2015 The Signing Family
• DF3018 History, Politics and Deafness
• SS1200  Study Skills

Research Projects

Deaf United (Football Association) 1998-99
Addressing Communication Disadvantage (National Lottery Community Fund) 2001
BSL:QED (FDTL) 2006-2008

External Affiliations

• Treasurer of the UK Disability History Group
• Member of the British Society of Sports Historians and the Leisure Studies Association
• Honorary member of staff and UCLan representative at the National Football Museum since its foundation
  

Selected Publications

Atherton, M. (2009) ‘A feeling as much as a place: leisure, deaf clubs and the British deaf community’ Journal of Leisure Studies, 28, 4: 443–454

Atherton, M (2009) 'Choosing to be deaf: issues of identity in the British deaf community' in Brown, A (ed.) Historical Perspectives on Social Identities (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press), pp. 129-136

Atherton, M. (2008) ‘Acquiring social capital through shared deafness: examining the leisure activities of deaf club members’ in Collins, M., Holmes, K. and Slater, A. (eds.) Sport, Leisure, Culture and Social Capital: Discourse and Practice (Eastbourne, Leisure Studies Association)

Atherton, M (2008) The theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy: the hidden history of the 1966 World Cup in England (Germany, Meyer and Meyer)

Barnes, C., Harrington, F., Williams, D. and Atherton, M. (eds.) (2007) Deaf students in Higher Education: current research and policies (Coleford, Douglas Mclean)

Atherton, M. (2007) ‘Sport in the British deaf community’ Sport in History 27,2: 276-292

Atherton, M. (2007) ‘Deaf newspapers: a cornerstone of the British deaf community’ in Collins, M., Holmes, K. and Slater, A. (eds.) Sport, Leisure, Culture and Social Capital: Discourse and Practice (Eastbourne, Leisure Studies Association)

Atherton, M (2006) 'Choosing to be deaf: issues of identity in the British deaf community' in Brown, A (ed.) Historical Perspectives on Social Identities (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press), pp. 129-136

McQuillan, L. and Atherton, M. (2006) ‘Sibling relationships in a mixed deaf/hearing family’ Deaf Worlds 22,3

Atherton, M. (2005) 'The other Jules Rimet Trophy' Sport in History 25, 1: 136-148

Atherton, M. (2004) ‘Pickles und der Pokal: Der Diebstahl des Coupe Jules Rimet’, in Am Ball Der Zeit: Deutschland und die Fussball Weltmeisterschaften Seit 1954, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, pp.146-159.

Atherton, M., Russell, D., Turner, G.H. (2000) Deaf United: a history of football in the British Deaf Community (Coleford, Douglas McLean)