Yerashotis, G., Gwilliam, B. and Darnell, S.C. (2025 – In Press) “This Experience has Changed me and my View: The Learning Experiences of Urban Youth in Outdoor-focused Sport-for-Development Programming.” Sport in Society. (Published online February 5, 2025)

Smith, T., Millington, R., Darnell, S.C. and Ali, A. (2025) “The Post-colonial Challenges of Climate Change and Sport for Development and Peace in the Anthropocene.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 60(8), 1514-1534. (Published online July 23, 2025)

Darnell, S.C. (2025) “The Ethical Dimensions of the Global Sport for Development and Peace Sector.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2025.019

Ali, A., Millington, R., Darnell, S.C. and Smith, T. (2024) “Policy vs Practice in Sport and Climate Change: The perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development.” Frontiers in Sport and Active Living. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2024.1297739 

Darnell, S.C. and Millington, R. (2024) “From Sport for to Sport as Sustainability: Confronting the Climate Crisis in Sport for Development.” Journal of Sport for Development. 11(2), 37-46. https://jsfd.org/2024/01/31/from-sport-for-to-sport-as-sustainability-confronting-the-climate-crisis-in-sport-for-development/

Eisenkraft Klein, D. and Darnell, S.C. (2024) “The Significance of Plus-Development through Sport: The Practices and Neoliberal Politics of Attracting Participants to Corporate-led Sport-for-Development.” Community Development Journal. 59(1), 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad001 

Norman, R., Sailofsky, D., Darnell, S.C., Warner, M., Heal, B. (2023) “Building Back Better: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport-for-Development in the Wake of COVID-19.” Sociology of Sport Journal. 40(2), 197-212. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2022-0032

Dao, M. and Darnell, S.C. (2021) “Exploring Vietnamese Sport-for-Development through the Capabilities Approach: A Descriptive Analysis.” Sport in Society. 25(10). https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.1900828

Collison, H., Giulianotti, R., and Darnell, S.C. (2021) “Volunteers in the Sport for Development and Peace Sector: Antinomies, Liminality, and Structural Relations.” Sport, Education and Society. 26(9). https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1901683

Rosa, D., Sabiston, C., Kuzmocha-Wilks, D., Cairney, J. and Darnell, S.C. (In Press) “Group Differences and Associations among Stress, Emotional Well-Being, and Physical Activity, in International and Domestic University Students.” Journal of American College Health.

Robyn Smith, Madison Danford, Simon C. Darnell, Maria Joaquina Lima Larrazabal & Mahamat Abdellatif (2021) ‘Like, what even is a podcast?’ Approaching sport-for-development youth participatory action research through digital methodologies, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 13(1), 128-145.

Books

Millington, R. and Darnell, S.C. (Editors) (2020) Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability. London: Routledge.

Darnell, S.C., Field, R., & Kidd, B. (2019) The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development: Activists, Ideologues and Reformers. Global Culture and Sport Series, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Collison, H., Darnell, S.C., Giulianotti, R., & Howe, D. (Editors) (2019) Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace. London: Routledge.

Whitley, M., Massey, W., Darnell, S.C. & Smith, B. (Editors) (2018) Sport in Under-resourced, Underdeveloped and Conflict Regions London: Routledge.

Book Chapters 

Darnell, S.C., Razack, S. and Joseph, J. (In Press) “Sport, Social Movements and Digital Media." in Pike, E. (Editor) Elgar Research Handbook on Sport and Society. Elgar.

Darnell, S.C., Smith, T. and Houston, C. (In Press) “Re-visiting Sport-for-Development through Rights, Capabilities, and Global Citizenship.” in Maguire, J., Liston, K., and Falcous, M. (Editors) Palgrave Handbook of Globalisation and Sport. Palgrave.

Millington, R., Darnell, S.C, and Smith, T. (2020) “Sport, International Development and Sustainable Futures: History, Policy, and Potential.” in Millington. B., and Wilson, B. (Editors) Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred Futures. Emerald Publishing, 29-46.

Darnell, S.C. and Millington, R. (2020) “Sport for Development and Peace: Convergence and divergence with the Olympic movement.” in Chatziefstathiou, D., Garcia, B., and Seguin, B. (Editors) Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Routledge, 345-354.

Collison, H., Darnell, S.C. and Giulianotti, R. (2020) “Rethinking Community in a Sport for Development and Peace Context.” in Jansen, B. (Editor) Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 265-283.

Darnell, S.C. (2020) “Re-assembling ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ through Actor Network Theory.” in Andrews, D., Thorpe, H., Newman, J. (Editors) Sport, Physical Culture and the Moving Body: Materialism, Technologies, Ecologies. Rutgers University Press, 229-245.

Darnell, S.C. and Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2020) “Sport, Globalization and International Development.” in Scherer, J. and Wilson, B. (Editors) Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society. Pearson, 309-329.

Darnell, S.C. (2019) “Sport for Development and Democracy.” in Maguire, J., Falcous, M., and Liston, K. (Editors) The Business and Culture of Sports: Society, Politics, Economy, Environment. MacMillan Reference USA, Volume 4, 93-103.

Darnell, S.C. (2019) “SDP and the Environment.” in Collison, H., Darnell, S.C., Giulianotti, R., Howe, D. (Editors) Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace. Routledge, 396-405.

Darnell, S.C. (2019) “Exploring the Place of Critical Research in Sport for Development and Peace.” in Pringle, R., Larsson, H., Gerdin, G. (Editors) Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to make a difference. Routledge, 27-38.