Matthew Nicholson is the Vice President (Research and Development) of Monash University Malaysia. Most recently, he was Director of the Centre for Sport and Social Impact at La Trobe University, where he led research teams in exploring the health and wellbeing of Australians, particularly via improvements in physical activity and sport participation. Matthew is a co-author of Australian Sport: Better by Design? (Routledge, 2004), Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus (Elsevier, 2007 & Routledge, 2015), and A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football (Viking/Penguin, 2008), and a co-editor of the international collections Sport and Social Capital (Elsevier, 2008) and Participation in Sport: International Policy Perspectives (Routledge, 2011).