Dr Nicola De Martini Ugolotti
- Senior Lecturer In Sport
- Dorset House D224, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti is senior lecturer in Sport and Physical Culture at Bournemouth University, and member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy. He completed his PhD in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Bath, after a MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and several years of professional activity as a clinical psychologist with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on leisure and expressive forms of physicality (from capoeira and parkour, to dance and music-making) as lenses to address the reciprocal constitution of bodies, spaces, power and subjectivities in contemporary contexts of (forced) migration, uneven urban changes, and social exclusion. Nicola is an Associate Editor of the Leisure Sciences journal, and member of the editorial boards of the Leisure Studies and Sociology of Sport journals. His work has been published in journals/books across leisure, urban and migration studies, sociology of sport and cultural geography... Nicola is available to supervise postgraduate and doctoral students in the areas of:.
leisure, sport and (forced) migration;
post-colonial and de-colonial perspectives on leisure and sport;
leisure, physical culture and urban spaces;
leisure, sport, intersecting inequalities and climate change.
moreExpertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Sustainable cities and communities
"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"
