 He is a former Chairman of UK Athletics and chairman (in 1993) and 'executive between chairman' (1994–97) of its predecessor, the British Athletics Federation.He was founder professor of the chair of the department of physical education and sports science at Glasgow University, and is currently Professor of Sport at Brunel University.In the fall of 2018, Radford was in-residence as a short-term fellow at the Folger Library's Folger Institute in Washington, DC, to study and present on "the corporeal and sporting early modern woman."