Jordan Maclean completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in Education in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Stirling. At the end of his second year, he went on an overseas institutional visit at the Vitalities Lab, University New South Wales, Sydney. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Institute for Social Marketing and Health and is working on two projects related to children's exposure to high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) advertising and an independent statutory review of Northern Ireland's Licensing System. He previously worked on the Limiting Virus Transmission during Sporting Mega Event project.
Jordan Maclean's research interests lie mainly within sociomaterial and post-structuralist theories to sport and public health contexts.
Studies in Continuing Education Student Scholarship
Article
Delivering social and public health programmes through community arms of professional football clubs
Hunt K, Maclean J & Maclean A (2025) Delivering social and public health programmes through community arms of professional football clubs. Health Promotion International.
Policy Document
Nicholls J, Fitzgerald N, Maclean J, Valiente R, Cook M, Shortt N, Burton R, Burton R, Wilson L, Morris D, Clemens T, Angus C, Pearce J, Angus K & Holmes J (2025) Independent Review of the Liquor Licensing System in Northern Ireland including the Surrender Principle. Northern Ireland Executive (Department for Communities). Belfast: Northern Ireland Executive.
Article
Maclean J, Rocha C, Piggin J, Hunt K, Philpott M, Fitzgerald N & Purves R (2024) “We wouldn’t have missed it for the world”: Hosting a polycentric sporting mega event in pandemic times. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2024.2424576
Book Chapter
Reorienting the Cartography of Coaching to Pandemic Times
Maclean J (2023) Reorienting the Cartography of Coaching to Pandemic Times. In: Andrews DL, Thorpe H & Newman JI (eds.) Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID assemblages. Cham, Switzerkand: Springer International Publishing, pp. 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14387-8_15
Book Chapter
Card Confessions: Digital Forms of Deviance in the Mindsport Bridge
Maclean J, Punch S & Xu M (2023) Card Confessions: Digital Forms of Deviance in the Mindsport Bridge. In: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17793-4_4
Article
Attending sporting mega events during COVID-19: mitigation and messaging at UK EURO 2020 matches
Purves RI, Maclean J, Rocha C, Philpott M, Fitzgerald N, Piggin J & Hunt K (2023) Attending sporting mega events during COVID-19: mitigation and messaging at UK EURO 2020 matches. Health Promotion International, 38 (1), Art. No.: daac176. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac176
Article
Coaching with Latour in the sociomateriality of sport: A cartography for practice
Maclean J & Allen J (2022) Coaching with Latour in the sociomateriality of sport: A cartography for practice. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2021-0171
Article
Coaching the beautiful game: an actor-network theory study of sport coaching
Maclean J (2021) Coaching the beautiful game: an actor-network theory study of sport coaching. Studies in Continuing Education, 43 (3), pp. 328-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037x.2021.1900095
Article
The 'Lieutenants' of Coaching: How Materiality Shapes Coach Developers' Practices
Maclean J (2021) The 'Lieutenants' of Coaching: How Materiality Shapes Coach Developers' Practices. Somatechnics, 11 (2), pp. 265-282. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0355
Thesis
Coaching with Latour: An ontological manifesto for the sociomateriality of sport
Maclean J (2021) Coaching with Latour: An ontological manifesto for the sociomateriality of sport. Doctor of Philosophy in Education. University of Stirling.
Article
Are coach education programmes the most effective method for coach development?
Maclean J & Lorimer R (2016) Are coach education programmes the most effective method for coach development?. International Journal of Coaching Science, 10 (2), pp. 71-88. http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE07227554
Jordan is a module coordinator for Qualitative Research and Analysis (NURP003) for the online Masters in Public Health programme at the University of Stirling. He has previously been involved in preparing pre-recorded online lecture materials for a new module 'Sociology of Sport' in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has also contributed to other various modules including: Sociology and Social Policy; Social Problems; Social Differentiation; Education: Purposes, Principles, Practice; and Introduction to Social Theory and Understanding Social Policy. Previously, Jordan worked as a Teaching Fellow in the School of Social and Health Sciences, Abertay University. He taught on the Access to Higher Education at Abertay Dundee (AHEAD) programme.