Niki Koutrou

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Name:

Niki Koutrou

Email address:

Niki.Koutrou@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

University of Sunderland in London (LCEA)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland in London

Biography

Expertise:

Olympic studies, sport volunteering, sport sustainability, Olympic legacy, Mega sport event impacts, sport policy

Job title:

Associate Professor of Sustainable Sport Management (Research & KE Lead UoSiL)

Qualifications:

2023 SFHEA Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE 2016 QTS Qualified Teacher Status (Ref: 1660581) National College for Teaching and Leadership, Department for Education 2015PGCHE Teaching & Learning in HE, University of Kent, UK 2014 PhD Sport Policy, Loughborough University, UK Thesis title: Assessing the determinants, impacts of, and relationships between, sports club and sports event volunteers' behaviour: The Case of Women's rugby in England. 2012 MA Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Organisation & Management of Olympic Events International Olympic Academy and The University of Peloponnese, Greece (English taught) 2008 MSc Sport Management, Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2006 BSc Physical Education & Sport Sciences (Distinction), Aristotle University ofmore...

My Latest

Kohe, Geoffery and Koutrou, Niki (2025) Generating connections in Greece’s civil society and volunteering landscape: stakeholder perspectives of (re)building capacity and sector sustainability. Voluntary Sector Review. pp. 1-25. ISSN 2040-8056
Koutrou, Niki and Kohe, Geoffery (2025) Grassroots sport stakeholders as Green Agents: Navigating Institutional Pressures and Environmental Sustainability in European Sport. In: European Association for Sport Management, 02-05 Sep 2025, Budapest, Hungary. (In Press)
Ikramullah, Anees and Koutrou, Niki (2025) “People Have Nowhere to Go”: Stakeholder Perceptions on Sustainability of Funded Community Sport Programmes. Social Inclusion, 13. ISSN 2183-2803
Koutrou, Niki and Duignan, Michael (2025) Has London 2012 volunteering programme engendered a sustainable and wider volunteering legacy in the UK? In: Events and Society: Bridging Theory and Practice. Routledge How Events Transform Society series . Routledge. ISBN 9781032786209
Koutrou, Niki (2025) The Volunteer Legacy Myth: Why inspiration fades out without the right post-event legacy plan? Discussion Paper. Centre for Events and Festivals, Online.

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	The impact of role ambiguity on future volunteering: A case study of the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival	121	73
2	(Re)building remnants of volunteer cultures in a post- Olympic metropolis: Analyzing forces, structures, and opportunities in Greece’s civil society landscape	112	18
3	The walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable Community-health enhancing interventions	112	7
4	An investigation into the provision of support for mature international students at UK HEIs to foster belonging	111	136
5	Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: Lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons	110	37
6	Why the London 2012 Olympics had limited impact on volunteering across the UK?	98	27
7	Volunteers' perceptions on grassroots' sport integrity towards environmental sustainability. Learning from the PlayGreen project	83	1
8	Transformative Sustainability Learning (TSL) through Sport Event Volunteering in Local communities: Applications from the PlayGreen Project	83	1
9	“I Like the Olympics, but I’m here not just for the Olympics”: Sex tourism, destination image and the dark side of mega-event tourism in Rio De Janeiro	76	20
10	Has London 2012 volunteering programme engendered a sustainable and wider volunteering legacy in the UK?	71	1

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