Awards and Research Grants

• The Sunday Times South Africa Alan Paton Book Award Finalist
• The Cricket Society and MCC Book Award Finalist
• Shortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (South Africa)
•  John H. Daniels Fellowship recipient, National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia, USA. 
• Researcher of the Year Award, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 
• Research Associate, Cape Higher Education Consortium and National Research Foundation (South Africa) City of Cape Town Impact Research Plan – FIFA World Cup. 
• Member of Northumbria University History Department’s £285,000 AHRC-funded project to explore the English Diaspora in North America. 
• Research Associate, South African Special Olympics Research Project (in association with University of Ulster) 
• Bursary for PhD research. Awarded by Brunel University, London. 
• Reinhard Sprenger Award for Outstanding Young Scholar in Sports History, Awarded by the ISHPES Conference, Kanazawa, Japan
• The Gwyn Williams Award for Best All-Round Male Sports Studies Student, Awarded by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff