Davies Banda, PhD
Dr Davies Banda is a Zambian whose research work focuses on sport and political science analysis. He is based at University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Dr Banda has published widely on sport policy in Zambia using management theories, governance theory, public policy and development theory.
He has led on government commissioned projects in Europe and the Middle East. His Middle East consultancy involved acting as Academic Adviser to the Executive Director of Generation Amazing – a human and social legacy of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy. This was a legacy programme for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Dr Banda was Director of Learning and Teaching at Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. He has extensive experience in education having worked in both the Global South and Global North as a teacher, sports coach, lecturer and principal researcher.
He is an active researcher in the field of sport for change and international development having worked as a researcher on commissioned projects by the UK Home Office, UNICEF, UNESCO and funded projects by the British Council. He supports the co-creation and co-production of social interventions using sport as a tool for transformational change among research target communities.
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1278-2228
Selected Publications
- Sport for Development in Zambia 2026-02-06 | book-chapter
- Zambia The SDP ideal? Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace 2019
- WOSUID: WOS:000827479300047
- Sport-for-development and the struggle for subaltern voices to be recognised: a response to Manley, Morgan and Atkinson International Journal of Sport Policy 2017 | journal-article
- DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1372794EID: 2-s2.0-85029448945Part of ISSN: 19406959 19406940
- Towards sustainable programme design? An examination of CSR initiatives within a Zambian SfD NGO International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 2015 | journal-article
- DOI: 10.1504/IJSMM.2015.074926EID: 2-s2.0-84959537285Part of ISSN: 17402808 14758962
- Sport for development in Zambia: The new or not so new colonisation? Research in the Sociology of Sport 2013 | book
- DOI: 10.1108/S1476-2854(2013)0000007011EID: 2-s2.0-84896310067ISBN: 9781781905913 Part of ISSN: 14762854
- Sport in action Young people, sex education and HIV/AIDS in Zambia Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace 2011
- WOSUID: WOS:000291469100030
- Zambia: Government’s role in colonial and modern times International Journal of Sport Policy 2010 | journal-article
- DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2010.488072EID: 2-s2.0-79551618114Part of ISSN: 19406940 19406959