SIRC research and consultancy services
- performance management
- major events
- elite sport
- volunteers in sport
- economics of sport and recreation
- sports participation
Performance management
The biggest growth in SIRC's portfolio is in the area of performance management.
We currently provide a Sport England approved National Benchmarking Service (NBS) for sports centres and swimming pools throughout England. SIRC has invested over £50,000 in high volume scanning equipment and software in order to process up to 250,000 NBS questionnaires per year.
In addition to the National Benchmarking Service, we are also able to apply the principles of performance management to community sports programmes and arts audience development initiatives across the UK. Using first principles of economics and management accounting we are capable of evaluating performance in a variety of sport and leisure contexts.
Key clients
Projects
For Childrens Play Council
Piloting play performance indicators, 2006/07 with Ashley Godfrey Associates
For Sport England
National Benchmarks 1997, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008
National Benchmarking Service and Quest: identifying the links (2003)
National Benchmarking Service: Best Practice in Access, Finance, Utilisation and for Lottery
For Lottery funded centres, four reports (2003)
National Benchmarks by Management type (2005)
For Leisure Management Contractors Association
The financial performance of leisure centres managed by commercial contact management companies (2003)
For Business in Sport and Leisure
Social inclusion and commercial leisure management contractors (2004)
Publications
Y. Liu, P. Taylor and S. Shibli (2009; forthcoming) Measuring customer service quality of English public sport facilities, International Journal of Sports Management and Marketing
Y. Liu, P. Taylor and S. Shibli (2009) Sport equity: benchmarking the performance of English public sport facilities, European Sport Management Quarterly, 9, 1
P. Taylor, A. Godfrey, L. Godfrey, P. Back, P. Sinclair and H. Kapasi (2008) Testing the feasibility of performance indicators for play facilities in England, Managing Leisure: an international journal, special issue on Performance Measurement and Management, 13, 3/4
Y. Liu, P. Taylor and S. Shibli (2008) Utilising importance data to identify customer segments for English public sport facilities, Managing Leisure: an international journal, special issue on Performance Measurement and Management, 13, 3/4
P. Taylor and C. Gratton (2008) Managing public services: the case of local authority sport, Teaching Business and Economics, 12, 1, Spring 2008
Y. Liu, P. Taylor and S. Shibli (2007) The operational efficiency of English public sport facilities, Managing Leisure: an international journal, 12, 4, October 2007
P. D. Taylor and L. Robinson (2003) The performance of local authority sports halls and swimming pools in England, Managing Leisure: an international journal, 8, 1, January
P. D. Taylor and A. Godfrey (2003) Performance measurement in local authority sports facilities, Public Productivity and Management Review, 26, 3, March
P. D. Taylor, editor (2002) Model Survey Packages, 2nd edition, Sport England
P. D. Taylor and A. Godfrey (2002) National Benchmarking Service for sports halls and swimming pools: a guide, Sport England
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