Research
Participation in sport and exercise
The aim is to analyse the sociological, economic, psychological, political, organisational and behavioural factors which inhibit and facilitate participation and engagement in sport and exercise.
Theme Leadership team
Professor Paul Downward (lead), Dr Rachel Sandford and Dr Elisavet Argyro Manoli
This theme contributes to the development of a critical awareness of the factors, structures and processes that motivate, enable and constrain people’s engagements with sport and exercise as part of their daily lives. It embraces casual and informal physical activity as well as formal, organised and elite sport across the local, national and global contexts and in the context of the implementation of exercise medicine to the general public for physical and mental health and well-being.
There is a specific focus on the following areas
08/11/2018
Young People's Perceptions of Sport Integrity
02/03/2018
International research in physical education: working with Latin American countries
23/03/2018
Methods in life-course health and wellbeing
13/12/2017
Sport, national identity and image-making: the case of the 2017 Taipei Universiade
Professor Alan Bairner
A Zambian Community Centred Development: an anthropological account of sport for development and peace
Dr David Howe
29/11/2017
New development frontiers? The Role of Youth, Sport and Cultural Interventions – a new ESRC research project
Dr Richard Giulianotti, Dr Aoife Sadlier and Dr James Esson
Evidencing the impact of sport for development programmes: Lessons from a scoping study of Greenhouse Sports programmes
Dr Carolynne Mason
22/11/2017
Learning through play: an exploration of children’s learning in Forest Schools
Dr Janine Coates, Loughborough University
Movement for learning: the impact of a daily movement programme on young children’s physical development
Dr Rebecca Duncombe, Loughborough University
21/11/2017
Research Excellence Framework
Professor John Horne
08/11/2017
Research Excellence Framework
Professor Chris Cooper
25/10/2017
Examining the influence of space and place on girls’ construction of embodied identities
Dr Rachel Sandford, Loughborough University
Adopting a models-based approach to teaching physical education
Dr Ash Casey, Loughborough University
18/10/2017
Exploring the domestic relationship between mega-events and destination image: the image impact of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games for the city of London
Dr Jamie Kenyon, Loughborough University
Parasport: an antidote for inclusive practice?
Dr David Howe, Loughborough University
11/10/2017
The Olympic Hunger Games: an examination of Team GB’s sponsor association with ultra-processed food brands
Dr Joe Piggin, Loughborough University
Physical Activity, Diet and Medication: some causal insights
Professor Paul Downward, Loughborough University
