Joel Rookwood is Director of the Sport and Exercise Management programme at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is Co-chair of the Football Collective, a global network of applied football researchers and practitioners. Joel has worked extensively in sport-for-development, leading educational, peacebuilding initiatives across six continents. His research interests include international development, sports mega-events, international relations, the football industry, and sports governance. His latest books include Football, Development and Peace: Local Projects in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2026), Sport, Peace and Development: Critical Global Challenges (2025), Sports Fanaticism on Social Media Platforms: Security Implications and Counter-Policy (2025), and The Sport Mega Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies (Routledge, 2024).

• 1. An Introduction to Managing Sport-for-Development Projects: Concepts, Agencies, Methods, and the 2003 India Project 2. Implementing a Football Coach Education Programme in Postcolonial Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique 3. Building Social Integration through ‘Play’ and Football in Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Internally Displaced Communities 4. Health Promotion and Social Development through Sport: The Chernobyl Disaster Rehabilitation Camp and the Youth Prisoner and Street Children Projects in Belarus and Ukraine 5. Using Football to Support an HIV/AIDS Education Initiative in Honduras 6. Volunteerism and Development in the Golden Triangle and the Slums of Bangkok: Sport Provision for the Street Children of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos 7. Sport-based Voluntourism in a Bolivian Orphanage: Coaching Football on the ‘Roof of the World’ 8. Sport Camps in War-torn Ukraine: Contextualising and Concluding the Lessons Learned from Early Sport-for-Development Projects

Joel Rookwood is Director of the Sport and Exercise Management programme at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is Co-chair of the Football Collective, a global network of applied football researchers and practitioners. Joel has worked extensively in sport-for-development, leading educational, peacebuilding initiatives across six continents. His research interests include international development, sports mega-events, international relations, the football industry, and sports governance. His latest books include Football, Development and Peace: Local Projects in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2026), Sport, Peace and Development: Critical Global Challenges (2025), Sports Fanaticism on Social Media Platforms: Security Implications and Counter-Policy (2025), and The Sport Mega Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies (Routledge, 2024).

• 1. An Introduction to Managing Sport-for-Development Projects: Concepts, Agencies, Methods, and the 2003 India Project 2. Implementing a Football Coach Education Programme in Postcolonial Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique 3. Building Social Integration through ‘Play’ and Football in Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Internally Displaced Communities 4. Health Promotion and Social Development through Sport: The Chernobyl Disaster Rehabilitation Camp and the Youth Prisoner and Street Children Projects in Belarus and Ukraine 5. Using Football to Support an HIV/AIDS Education Initiative in Honduras 6. Volunteerism and Development in the Golden Triangle and the Slums of Bangkok: Sport Provision for the Street Children of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos 7. Sport-based Voluntourism in a Bolivian Orphanage: Coaching Football on the ‘Roof of the World’ 8. Sport Camps in War-torn Ukraine: Contextualising and Concluding the Lessons Learned from Early Sport-for-Development Projects

Joel Rookwood is Director of the Sport and Exercise Management programme at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is Co-chair of the Football Collective, a global network of applied football researchers and practitioners. Joel has worked extensively in sport-for-development, leading educational, peacebuilding initiatives across six continents. His research interests include international development, sports mega-events, international relations, the football industry, and sports governance. His latest books include Football, Development and Peace: Local Projects in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2026), Sport, Peace and Development: Critical Global Challenges (2025), Sports Fanaticism on Social Media Platforms: Security Implications and Counter-Policy (2025), and The Sport Mega Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies (Routledge, 2024).

• 1. An Introduction to Managing Sport-for-Development Projects: Concepts, Agencies, Methods, and the 2003 India Project 2. Implementing a Football Coach Education Programme in Postcolonial Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique 3. Building Social Integration through ‘Play’ and Football in Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Internally Displaced Communities 4. Health Promotion and Social Development through Sport: The Chernobyl Disaster Rehabilitation Camp and the Youth Prisoner and Street Children Projects in Belarus and Ukraine 5. Using Football to Support an HIV/AIDS Education Initiative in Honduras 6. Volunteerism and Development in the Golden Triangle and the Slums of Bangkok: Sport Provision for the Street Children of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos 7. Sport-based Voluntourism in a Bolivian Orphanage: Coaching Football on the ‘Roof of the World’ 8. Sport Camps in War-torn Ukraine: Contextualising and Concluding the Lessons Learned from Early Sport-for-Development Projects