Professor Jonathan Grix

Jonathan Grix is a Professor in Sports Policy in the Business and Law Faculty at Manchester Metropolitan University and leads the Faculty’s Sports Policy Unit. He has published widely in the area of sports governance, sport politics and policy. His latest research monographs include Sport under Communism. Behind the East German “Miracle” (co-authored with Mike Dennis) (Palgrave, 2012) and Sport Politics: An Introduction (Palgrave, 2016). Jonathan is the Chair of the Political Studies Association’s Specialist Group, Sport Politics, and the Editor-in-Chief of the leading International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.