University of Chichester

David Lord

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Contact Details

Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 816438

Mobile: 07976 259 152

Fax: +44 (0) 1243 816080

Office: N213

Email: D.Lord@chi.ac.uk

Education

University of Leeds. B.A. (Hons) Degree in French with German.

Personal Introduction

Working part-time at the University of Chichester, bringing industry and commercial experience and case studies as a focus for the Sport Development and Management degree modules.  Organisation of industry speakers, visits and work placements.

Director of RQA Ltd (Leisure Management Consultancy) operating across the UK for clients in public, education, voluntary and private sectors of the leisure service industries. Consultancy undertaken includes strategic, business and facility planning, feasibility studies, funding applications, senior executive interim placements.

Representing cultural development and activities on the Core Group of Chichester’s Strategic Partnership. 

Professional interests include the development of education/business/training networks and strategies aimed at improving the skills and employability of young people to better serve the business sector; improving the development and management of leisure facilities and services; developing opportunities presented by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

University inputs include on the following modules: 

  • Introduction to Sport and Fitness Management
  • Theories of Sport and Fitness Management 
  • Employment and Training in the Sport and Fitness Industry 
  • Sport and Fitness: Demand and Marketing Planning for Sport and Fitness 
  • Operational Management in the Sport and Fitness Industry 
  • Human Resource Management
  • Work Placement Programme

Research interests

  • Employment and employability in the sport and leisure sector
  • Commercialisation of sport and leisure
  • Development of education to business links 
  • The better marketing, management and development of community and elite facilities for sport, recreation, fitness and leisure in the public and private sectors.

Membership

  • Institute of Sports, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL)

Consultancy Projects include:

Feasibility Studies and Business Planning for the development of community leisure, sports programmes and facilities, such as:

  • Watersports Feasibility Study for Bognor Regis led by the University of Chichester – clients Arun DC and Butlins Southcoast World
  • The New Park Arts and Community Centre, Chichester - business planning/capitalfunding 
  • Hub Tooting & Mitcham – business planning/capital funding
  • Stoke Mandeville Stadium – the home of Wheelpower (British Wheelchair Sport Foundation)
  • South Essex Sports Village, Basildon, (including planned dedicated facilities for Olympic 2012 team training), p/o town centre regeneration plan
  • Community leisure, health and business start up facilities – New Deal for Communities (Thornhill in Southampton, Whitehawk in Brighton)
  • The Herefordshire Centre, Hereford – cultural ‘hub’ concept and business planning, p/o town centre redevelopment

Cultural, Leisure, Sports, Community Strategies

  • Leisure facility management options, reviews and tendering process
  • Leisure Management Contract monitoring and review
  • Fitness Centre development catchment/saturation analysis - Dover, Exeter, London Boroughs, Chichester, East Hampshire, Suffolk
  • Leisure Strategies – East Hampshire, Winchester, Exeter, Epping Forest, Surrey Heath,North Cornwall Strategic planning and PPG 17 Open Space, Sport and Recreation studies for many local authorities; SDPs linked to the Local Development Framework.