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 Janine Coates 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
04/12/2019
Outsports.com: the narratives of LGB athletes in sport
Dr Gemma Witcomb, Loughborough University
20/11/2019
Children's rights and football
Dr Carolynne Mason, Loughborough University
Dr Serhat Yilmaz, Loughborough University
06/11/2019
We are all gonna die! The possible impact of Brexit on British sport
Dr Borja Garcia Garcia, Loughborough University
Football and mediatization: a serious academic pursuit or just scholars playing silly games?
Dr Michael Skey, Loughborough University
23/10/2019
Critical realism in sport and social science
Dr Gareth Wilshire, Loughborough University
Match-fixing monitoring systems in play
Dr Minhyeok Tak, Loughborough University
03/04/2019
The use of research in practice and policy: Knowledge translation in public health pedagogies, the Physical Activity Discourse:
Body Fascism or Body Freedom? - Jessica Lee (Griffith University) & Joe Piggin
20/03/2019
Joint meeting with PA and H
06/03/2019
Active and healthy lifestyles in school, university and community: Highlights of research conducted in and from Portugal - João Martins
20/02/2019
Bias in rugby refereeing and the role of the TMO. Does corruption in sport corrode social capital? - Paul Downward, Elisavet Manoli and Comille Bandura
09/01/2019
Participation/SDC/Performance Integration session - Kelly Sotherton and Michael Johnson
28/11/2018
IAS Nation Theme - Cora Burnett
26/11/2018
Joanna Harper - Athletic Gender - Coping with Gender-Variant Athletes
21/11/2018
IAS Nation Theme - Gijs Campenhout and Joost Jansen
08/11/2018
Young People's Perceptions of Sport Integrity
07/11/2018
IAS Nation Theme - Lee Thompson and Susan Brownell
24/10/2018
Carrie Dunn - "'You're never going to be able to compete with men's football' - women's sport, fans and the media"?
13/09/2018
Exploring youth health: Using critical ethnography to understand health across socioeconomic contexts
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
