Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)

Senior Fellow

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Telephone: 868-662-2002 ext. 83262

Email: roy.mccree@sta.uwi.edu


Dr. Roy McCree is a Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES).  He first worked at the Institute as a Graduate Research Assistant from 1991 to 1995, when it was still the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER).  He has been a full time member of staff since 1996.  His research interests have covered the areas of sport, culture, race relations, policy evaluation and social policy in particular relation to the issues of youth, community development, suicide, social capital and gambling.  He has a particular interest, however, in the study of sport and its social, political, economic, cultural and technological significance in the development of modern society. 

 

For more Background and publication information, visit the following websites:

http://www.salisesregional.com/staff/roy-mccree-phd;

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roy-Mccree;

https://scholar.google.com/sitations?user=ntQIVR8AAAAJ&hl=en

Qualifications

  • PhD in Sociology of Sport, Leicester University, United Kingdom 2005
  • MSc in Sociology, UWI St. Augustine 1995
  • BA Degree (French, Spanish, Sociology) UWI St. Augustine 1986

Research Interests

  • Sport (athletic migration professionalization, sport media, identity formation, sport participation, sport policy)
  • Sport and Leisure Tourism
  • Civil Society/NGOs, Community Development
  • Festivals
  • Gambling
  • Public-Private partnerships
  • Social Capital
  • Youth

Interests

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Professional Memberships

  • Member of the British Sociological Association
  • North American Society for Sociology of Sport
  • International Sociology of Sport Association

Publications and Presentations

Dr. McCree.pdf


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