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Dr Lana St Leger

Department: Marketing and Strategy

Office/Location: O1.41c

Telephone: Ext. 6280

Staff Overview

Dr Lana St Leger is an early career researcher and Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Cardiff School of Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Prior to joining the Department for Marketing and Strategy in 2022, she worked as a Lecturer in Sport Management at Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and at the University of Bath within the Department for Health, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lana completed her Ph.D. in 2020 which investigated the role of community sport in encouraging the use of the Welsh language among young people beyond the school gate, funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.

Lana’s research interests focus on four main areas: Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics, Community Studies, the Well-being of the Future Generations, and Policy and Practice.

Teaching

Lana delivers on a range of modules on both the undergraduate and post graduate and has several years of learning and teaching experience in management and strategy.

Lana is currently teaching on the following modules:

Strategic Management (MBA Level 7 and BA Level 6)
Business in A Global Context (BA Level 4)
Business Solutions and Transformation MSc Level 7)
In Search of Creativity, Innovation and Difference (MSc Level 7)

She is also the Module leader for Business in Action (BA Level 5)

Research

Lana’s research interests focus on four main areas: Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics (Welsh language and other minority languages), Community Studies (including sport, indigenous communities), the Well-being of the Future Generations, and Policy and Practice.

Current Projects

When the street talks: A case study of the impact of climate change on communities in Wales. This project focuses on building preliminary research which explores the importance of recognising protection and preservation of languages for the future generations, specifically considering the impact of climate change upon minority language communities, culture, and heritage.

Rhwydwaith Ymarferwyr-Ymchwilwyr Crefft Ymladd Cymru: The Wales Martial Arts Practitioner-Researcher Network. Building resilience and wellbeing during times of loneliness: a toolkit from the martial arts.

Key Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

Evans, L., Bolton, N., Jones, C. & Iorwerth, H. (2019). ‘Defnyddiwch y Gymraeg’: Community sport as a vehicle for encouraging the use of the Welsh language. Sport in Society, 22 (6): 1115-129.

Conference papers

St Leger, L, Bolton, N. & Jones, C. (2023). Exploring the social construction of language and its implications for the UN Sustainable Goals. Advances in Management and Innovation Conference 2023: Business and Society - The UN Sustainable Development Goals, Cardiff Metropolitan University 16-17th April 2023.

St Leger, L., Jones, C. & Bolton, N. (2023). Exploring the social construction of language. A case study of community sport and the Welsh language. 2023 World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Ottawa, Canada 14-17th August 2023.

St Leger, L., Bolton, N. & Jones, C. (2023). Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Approach: A case study of policy development of the minority language and community sport in Wales. British Academy of Management 2023 Conference: Developmental Papers Public Management and Governance, University of Sussex. 1-6th September 2023.

Evans, L., Bolton, N., Jones, C., & Iorwerth, H. (2017). How can sport contribute to increasing the use of Welsh among young people outside school? A case study of a non-traditional Welsh speaking area. World congress of the Sociology of sport: Reimagining democracies and sport, Taiwan. 30th May – 2nd June 2017.

Other Projects and activities

Fellow, Higher Education Academy