Is doping a problem in Kenyan running? An examination of doping behaviours & anti-doping policies
PI: Dr Paul Dimeo
Funded by: World Anti-Doping Agency
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About me
I joined the University of Stirling in 2002, and am now Associate Professor. My other roles include leading the Sport Social Science Research Group, Programme Director for BA (Hons) Sports Studies, and Associate Dean for Internationalisation.
Research
My main area of interest is anti-doping policy. I have published widely on this topic including a recent monograph (The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions, 2018, Routledge).
Projects
Team Dynamics and doping in sport: a risk or a protective factor
PI: Dr Paul Dimeo
Funded by: World Anti-Doping Agency
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The Doping of Elite Athletes in International Sport and Politics of the Cold War 1950-1990
PI: Dr Paul Dimeo
Funded by: The US-UK Fullbright Commission
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The Sports Doping Policy in the Former East Germany 1968- 1990
PI: Dr Paul Dimeo
Funded by: The British Academy
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Events and sports development legacies
PI: Dr Paul Dimeo
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Outputs
Book Chapter
The Decline of Trust in British Sport Since the London Olympics: Team Sky’s Fall from Grace
Dimeo P & Henning A (2018) The Decline of Trust in British Sport Since the London Olympics: Team Sky’s Fall from Grace. In: Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Newspaper Article
WADA, and the future of anti-doping
Henning A & Dimeo P (2018) WADA, and the future of anti-doping. https://www.velonews.com/2018/12/commentary/the-outer-line-wada-and-the-future-of-anti-doping_482188, 12.12.2018.
Newspaper Article
Dimeo P & Henning A (2018) How to improve anti-doping. http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/how-to-improve-anti-doping/, 23.08.2018.
Research Report
Henning A & Dimeo P (2018) Perceptions of legitimacy, attitudes and buy-in among athlete groups: a cross-national qualitative investigation providing practical solutions. World Anti-Doping Agency. Montreal
Authored Book
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions
Dimeo P & Møller V (2018) The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions. London: Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/The-Anti-Doping-Crisis-in-Sport-Causes-Consequences-Solutions/Dimeo-Moller/p/book/9781138681675
Newspaper Article
Sport is not clean: doping could be prevented if athletes had chaperones
Dimeo P & Moller V (2018)
The Conversation, 27.4.2018.
Article
The new front in the war on doping: Amateur athletes
Henning AD & Dimeo P (2018)
International Journal of Drug Policy, 51, pp. 128-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.036.
Newspaper Article
Elite sport: time to scrap the therapeutic exemption system of banned medicines
Dimeo P & Moller V (2017)
The Conversation, 18.12.2017.
Article
Precipitating or prohibiting factor: Coaches’ perceptions of their role and actions in anti-doping
Allen J, Morris R, Dimeo P & Robinson L (2017)
International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 12 (5), pp. 577-587.
Article
The Myth of Clean Sport and its Unintended Consequences
Dimeo P (2016)
Performance Enhancement and Health, 4 (3-4), pp. 103-110.
Article
Henning AD & Dimeo P (2015)
Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22 (5), pp. 400-409. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2015.1029872.
Article
Allen J, Taylor J, Dimeo P & Robinson L (2015)
Journal of Sports Sciences, 33 (9), pp. 899-906.
Article
Henning AD & Dimeo P (2014)
Performance Enhancement and Health, 3 (3-4), pp. 159-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2015.08.001.
Article
Anti-doping - the end of sport
Moller V & Dimeo P (2014)
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 6 (2), pp. 259-272.
Article
Dimeo P (2014) Why Lance Armstrong? Historical context and key turning-points in the 'cleaning up' of professional cycling , International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (8), pp. 951-968.
Article
Hunt TM, Dimeo P, Hemme F & Mueller A (2014)
International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (7), pp. 2230-2244.
Research Report
Allen J, Dimeo P, Morris R, Dixon S & Robinson L (2013) Precipitating or prohibiting factor? Examining coaches’ perspectives of their role in doping and anti-doping. World Anti-Doping Agency. Social Science Research Scheme. World Anti-Doping Agency Social Science Research Scheme.
Research Report
Team dynamics and doping in sport: A risk or a protective factor?
Dimeo P, Allen J, Taylor J, Dixon S & Robinson L (2013) Team dynamics and doping in sport: A risk or a protective factor?. World Anti-Doping Agency. Target Research Scheme. University of Stirling School of Sport.
Article
Monitoring drug use in sport: The contrast between official statistics and other evidence
Dimeo P & Taylor J (2013)
Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 20 (1), pp. 40-47.
Article
The Diplomatic Context of Doping in the Former German Democratic Republic: A Revisionist Examination
Hunt TM, Dimeo P, Bowers M & Jedlicka SR (2012)
International Journal of the History of Sport, 29 (18), pp. 2486-2499.
Article
Hunt TM, Dimeo P & Jedlicka SR (2012)
Performance Enhancement and Health, 1 (2), pp. 55-60.
Article
Dimeo P & Hunt TM (2012)
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47 (5), pp. 581-593.
Book Chapter
History of Anti-Doping at the Olympics
Hunt TM & Dimeo P (2012) History of Anti-Doping at the Olympics. In: Lo V (ed.). Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality . British Museum Research Publication, 188, London: British Museum Publications.
Article
The individual and the state: A social historical analysis of the east german 'Doping System'
Dimeo P, Hunt TM & Horbury R (2011)
Sport in History, 31 (2), pp. 218-237.
Article
Dimeo P, Hunt TM & Bowers M (2011)
International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (6), pp. 925-940.
Article
Drugs in sport: A call for comparative research
Dimeo P (2011)
Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 18 (1), pp. 1-2. http://informahealthcare.com/dep; https://doi.org/10.3109/09687631003776919.
Article
Sports History and Fiction: Reading Alan Sillitoe's 'The Match'
Dimeo P (2010)
Sporting Traditions, 27 (2), pp. 81-90.
Research Report
Coalter F, Dimeo P, Morrow S & Taylor J (2010) The Benefits of Mountaineering and Mountaineering Related Activities: A Review of Literature: A Report to the Mountaineering Council of Scotland. Mountaineering Council of Scotland. British Mountaineering Council. Department of Sports Studies, University of Stirling.
Article
Understanding and Managing Drugs in Sport
Dimeo P (2010)
The Shield, Research Journal of Physical Education and Sports Science, 5, pp. 29-43.
Book Review
Review Essay: Understanding Olympic Tourism (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2009)
Book review of: Understanding Olympic tourism, M. Weed, Oxford, Butterworth Heinemann (2007). 265 pp. ISBN: 0750681616, Tourism Management, 30 (5), pp. 778-781.
Book Review
Understanding Olympic tourism (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2009)
Book review of: A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who's keeping the score?, F.Coalter, London: Routledge, 2007, 206 pp. ISBN 9780415363501, Tourism Management, 30 (5), pp. 778-781.
Article
The experience of migration for Brazilian football players
Vasconcellos Ribeiro CH & Dimeo P (2009)
Sport in Society, 12 (6), pp. 725-736.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Fictional literature and the sports historian
Dimeo P (2009) Fictional literature and the sports historian. Australian Society for Sports History Conference, 31.7.2009 - 3.8.2009, Wellington, New Zealand.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Fact, Fiction and Mythin: the History of Drugs in Sport [Aberdare Book Prize Winner Presentation]
Dimeo P (2009) Fact, Fiction and Mythin: the History of Drugs in Sport
Article
Dimeo P & Vasconcellos Ribeiro CH (2009)
Movimento, 15 (2), pp. 33-44.
Article
Literature and Sports History: A Review of Recent Contributions
Dimeo P (2009)
Sport in History, 29 (1), pp. 92-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460260902775243.
Article
Leading Anti-Doping in the IOC: the ambiguous role of Prince Alexandre de Merode
Dimeo P & Hunt TM (2009)
Journal of Olympic History, 17 (1), pp. 20-22.
Edited Book
Elite Sport, Doping and Public Health
Moller V, McNamee M & Dimeo P (eds.) (2009)
First ed. Odense, Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark.
Edited Book
Dimeo P (ed.) (2009)
First ed. Sport in the Global Society. London, UK: Routledge.
Book Chapter
The Origins of Anti-Doping Policy in Sports: From Public Health to Fair Play
Dimeo P (2009) The Origins of Anti-Doping Policy in Sports: From Public Health to Fair Play. In: Moller V, McNammee M, Dimeo P (ed.). Elite sport, doping and public health, First ed, Odense, Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, pp. 29-40.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Dimeo P (2008) Regulating and Moralising about Drugs in Sport: a Critical Review of the 'Everything Changed in the 1960s' Theory. The Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference 2008, "History and the Healthy Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine", 3.9.2008 - 5.9.2008, Glasgow, UK.
Book Review
Sports tourism: Participants, policy and providers (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2008)
Book review of: Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers, Weed, M, Bull, C, Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004, 351 pages, ISBN: 9780750683753, Tourism Management, 29 (3), pp. 603-603.
Book Review
Sports tourism: Participants, policy and providers (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2008)
Book review of: Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers. Weed, M., Bull, C., Oxford, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004, 320 pp. ISBN: 0750652764, Tourism Management, 29 (3), pp. 603-603.
Lecture
Leadership in the IOC's Medical Commission on the issue of Anti-Doping
Dimeo P (2007) Leadership in the IOC's Medical Commission on the issue of Anti-Doping. Centre for Olympic Studies & Research Seminar Series 2007, 30.11.2007 - 30.11.2007, Loughborough, UK.
Lecture
The Public Health Origins of Anti-Doping
Dimeo P (2007) The Public Health Origins of Anti-Doping. International Network of Humanistic Doping Research, (INHDR), Second International Conference, "Doping and Public Health", 15.8.2007 - 16.8.2007, Aarhus, Denmark.
Book Review
A social history of Indian football: Striving to score (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2007)
Book review of: A social history of Indian football: Striving to score, Boria Majumdar and Kausik Bandyopadhyay, New York, Routledge, 2006, 216pp. ISBN 978-0-415-34835-5 , American Historical Review, 112 (3), pp. 834-834.
Article
A Critical Assessment of John Hoberman's Histories of Drugs in Sport
Dimeo P (2007)
Sport in History, 27 (2), pp. 318-342.
Authored Book
A history of drug use in sport: 1876-1976: Beyond good and evil
Dimeo P (2007) A history of drug use in sport: 1876-1976: Beyond good and evil. New York, NY US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
The History of Drugs, Sport and Science, 1920-1960
Dimeo P (2006) The History of Drugs, Sport and Science, 1920-1960. History of Science Society 2006 Annual Meeting, 2.11.2006 - 5.11.2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Why did we forget the scientists in the history of anti-doping?
Dimeo P (2006) Why did we forget the scientists in the history of anti-doping?. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) 27th Annual Conference, 1.11.2006 - 4.11.2006, Vancouver, Canada.
Book Review
Sport tourism development (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2006)
Book review of: Sport Tourism Development, T.Hinch and J.Higham, Clevedon: Channel View, 2004, 254pp., ISBN 9781873150627, Tourism Management, 27 (5), pp. 1064-1065.
Book Review
Testosterone dreams: Rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2006)
Book review of: Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping, John Hoberman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, Pp. 381. ISBN 9780520221512, Social History of Medicine, 19 (2), pp. 351-352.
Book Chapter
Good Versus Evil? Drugs, Sport and the Cold War
Dimeo P (2006) Good Versus Evil? Drugs, Sport and the Cold War. In: Wagg S, Andrews D (ed.). East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War, First ed, London, UK: Routledge.
Other
Sport in History: Special Issue on Drugs, Alcohol and Sport
Dimeo P (ed.) (2005) Sport in History: Special Issue on Drugs, Alcohol and Sport. 25 (3).
Article
Dimeo P (2005) Introduction. Sport in History, 25 (3), pp. 351-353. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsih20/25/3; https://doi.org/10.1080/17460260500395840.
Book Review
Sport and adventure tourism (Book Review)
Dimeo P (2005)
Book review of: Sport and adventure tourism: Simon Hudson (Ed.); Haworth Hospitality Press, Binghampton, 2003, 324pp. ISBN 0-7890-1276-6, Tourism Management, 26 (1), pp. 113-114.
Book Chapter
Cricket and the misrepresentation of Indian sports history
Dimeo P (2005) Cricket and the misrepresentation of Indian sports history. In: Garnham N, Jeffery K (ed.). Culture, place and identity: Historical Studies XXIV. Historical Studies, 24, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, pp. 98-111.
Book Chapter
The Social History of the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, 1829-2003
Dimeo P (2005) The Social History of the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, 1829-2003. In: Mills JH (ed.). Subaltern Sports: Politics and Sport in South Asia, First ed. Anthem South Asian Studies, London, UK: Anthem Press, pp. 123-138.
Book Chapter
Sport and the 'civilizing mission' in India
Dimeo P (2004) Sport and the 'civilizing mission' in India. In: Fischer-Tine H, Mann M (ed.). Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India, First ed. Anthem South Asian Studies, London, UK: Anthem Press, pp. 165-178.
Article
Dimeo P & Kay J (2004)
Third World Quarterly, 25 (7), pp. 1263-1276.
Article
'With political Pakistan in the offing ...': Football and Communal Politics in South Asia, 1887-1947
Dimeo P (2003)
Journal of Contemporary History, 38 (3), pp. 377-394.
Book Chapter
Mills J & Dimeo P (2003) 'When Gold is Fired it Shines': Sport, the imagination and the body in colonial and post-colonial India. In: Bale J, Cronin M (ed.). Sport and Postcolonialism, First ed. Global Sport Cultures, 3, Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, pp. 107-122.
Book Chapter
'A Parcel of Dummies?' Sport and the body in Indian history
Dimeo P (2003) 'A Parcel of Dummies?' Sport and the body in Indian history. In: Mills JH, Sen S (ed.). Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, First ed. Anthem South Asian Studies, London, UK: Anthem Press.
Other
Football Studies: Special issue on Football, Culture and Society in India
Dimeo P (ed.) (2002) Football Studies: Special issue on Football, Culture and Society in India. 5 (2).
Article
The Local, National and Global in Indian Football: Issues of Power and Identity
Dimeo P (2002)
Football Studies, 5 (2), pp. 74-87.
Article
Dimeo P (2002)
International Journal of the History of Sport, 19 (1), pp. 72-90.
Article
Football and politics in Bengal: colonialism, nationalism, communalism
Dimeo P (2001)
Soccer and Society, 2 (2), pp. 57-74.
Article
Introduction: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
Mills J & Dimeo P (2001)
Soccer and Society, 2 (2), pp. 1-16.
Edited Book
Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
Dimeo P & Mills J (eds.) (2001)
First ed. Sport in the Global Society, 29. London, UK: Frank Cass Publishers.
Other
Contemporary South Asia: Special issue on Sport in South Asia
Dimeo P & Mills J (ed.) (2001) Contemporary South Asia: Special issue on Sport in South Asia. 10 (2).
Other
Soccer and Society: Special issue on Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
Dimeo P & Mills J (ed.) (2001) Soccer and Society: Special issue on Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora. 2 (2).
Article
Contemporary developments in Indian football
Dimeo P (2001)
Contemporary South Asia, 10 (2), pp. 251-264.
Book Chapter
'Team loyalty splits the city into two': football, ethnicity and rivalry in Calcutta
Dimeo P (2001) 'Team loyalty splits the city into two': football, ethnicity and rivalry in Calcutta. In: Armstrong G, Giulianotti R (ed.). Fear and loathing in world football, First ed. Global Sport Cultures, Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, pp. 105-118.
Book Chapter
Racism, National Identity and Scottish Football
Dimeo P & Finn GPT (2001) Racism, National Identity and Scottish Football. In: Carrington B, McDonald I (ed.). 'Race', sport and British society, First ed, London, UK: Routledge, pp. 29-48.
Book Chapter
Racism and Violence in British Football
Dimeo P (2001) Racism and Violence in British Football. In: Ruskin H, Lammer M (ed.). Fair Play: Violence in Sport and Society, First ed, Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pp. 43-46.
Book Chapter
Scottish Football: No Grounds for Racism?
Dimeo P & Finn GPT (1999) Scottish Football: No Grounds for Racism?. In: Proceedings of the Annual Social Psychology Conference of the British Psychology Society, Volume 7. London: British Psychological Society
Book Chapter
Race, colonialism and the emergence of football in India
Dimeo P (1998) Race, colonialism and the emergence of football in India. In: Allison M, Horne J, Jackson L (ed.). Sport, Leisure and Society, First ed. Scottish Centre Research Papers in Sport, Leisure and Society, Vol. 3 - 1998/1999, Edinburgh, UK: University of Edinburgh, pp. 15-30.
Book Chapter
Scottish Racism, Scottish Identities: the case of Partick Thistle
Dimeo P & Finn GPT (1998) Scottish Racism, Scottish Identities: the case of Partick Thistle. In: Brown A (ed.). Fanatics! Power, Identity and Fandom in Football , First ed, London, UK: Routledge, pp. 124-138.
Newspaper Article
Three radical steps to derail doping in elite sport
Dimeo P (2018)
The Conversation, 12.3.2018.
Newspaper Article
Why banning Kenya from Rio presents an Olympian dilemma
Dimeo P (2016)
The Conversation, 29.5.2016.
Newspaper Article
World cycling is broken – it’s time to lift the ban on doping
Dimeo P (2015)
The Conversation, 10.3.2015.
Newspaper Article
Tougher rules on drugs in sport won’t help detect more doping
Dimeo P (2014)
The Conversation, 12.12.2014.
Newspaper Article
Forget Lance Armstrong, the next big cycling doper could be your dad
Dimeo P & Henning AD (2015)
The Conversation, 27.1.2015.
Newspaper Article
Think the war on doping is a force for good? Its ideals have been compromised all along
Dimeo P & Moller V (2015)
The Conversation, 4.3.2015.
Newspaper Article
Seven steps to reboot the fight against doping in sport
Dimeo P (2016)
The Conversation, 1.7.2016.
Newspaper Article
Media-led investigations aren’t the way to beat doping in sport
Dimeo P (2016)
The Conversation, 18.7.2016.
Newspaper Article
Black and white anti-doping fight nears stalemate – here’s how to break it
Dimeo P (2016)
The Conversation, 15.9.2016.
Newspaper Article
Five questions for cycling chief Dave Brailsford
Dimeo P (2016)
The Conversation, 16.12.2016.