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Participation-performance tension and gender affect recreational sports clubs’ engagement with children and young people with diverse backgrounds and abilities
Sport participation has been shown to be associated with health and social benefits. However, there are persisting inequities and barriers to sport participation that can prevent children and young people with diverse backgrounds and abilities from accessing these benefits. This mixed methods study investigated how diversity is understood, experienced and managed in junior sport. The study combined in-depth interviews (n = 101), surveys (n = 450) and observations over a three-year period. The results revealed that a focus on performance and competitiveness negatively affected junior sports clubs' commitment to diversity and inclusive participation. Gender and a range of attitudes about diversity were also strongly related. On average, we found that those who identified as men were more likely to support a pro-performance stance, be homophobic, endorse stricter gender roles, and endorse violence as a natural masculine trait. In addition, those who identified as men were less likely to hold pro-disability attitudes. These findings suggest that the participation-performance tension and gender affect to what extent, and how, sports clubs engage children and young people with diverse backgrounds and abilities.
Journal Article
Urban Youth, Worklessness and Sport
The potential value of sport as a vehicle through which urban regeneration and social renewal policy can be delivered has been extensively examined. However, there are an increasing number of initiatives aiming to use sports-based programmes as a way to address worklessness and social exclusion amongst young people which have received less attention. This paper provides a critical comparative analysis of two such programmes, one based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the other in Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. Using qualitative data collected from participants, staff and other stakeholders, the paper details the nature and perceived merits of the programmes before considering the limitations and constraints of employability initiatives using sport. The paper concludes by suggesting that a fundamental shift in policy discourse is required for such programmes to be able to achieve sustainable positive outcomes for workless young people with complex problems and needs.
Journal Article
Sport for Development in Zambia: The New or not so New Colonisation?
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to examine the experiences of indigenous participants in Global North led sport for development programmes. The chapter considers whether the experiences of indigenous participants reflect the neo-colonialist claims levied at such initiatives.
Design/methodology/approach – The chapter draws on findings from a qualitative study utilising in depth interviews with 14 young women who participated in a sport for development initiative and 8 mothers and grandmothers.
Findings – The research illustrates how we can construct sport for development initiatives as neo-colonial activities imposed on indigenous participants by Global North agencies. However, we argue that this alone does not capture the complexity of experience at local level and the young women we interviewed highlighted the important place sport for development programmes have within their lives and how they reshape them to provide resources that are valuable for them within their communities.
Research limitations/implications – The challenges of navigating power relationships as Global North researchers working in the Global South are highlighted and their potential impact on the research discussed.
Originality/value – The chapter highlights the importance of understanding indigenous experiences in sport for development programmes. Such local level analysis is lacking within current literature.
Book Chapter
Football, Healing, and Mental Health Recovery
Abstract
Purpose
This chapter draws on qualitative data and observations from a range of projects seeking to use football to support mental health recovery. The authors conceptualize recovery as a fluid ongoing process that while supporting individuals to manage and deal with mental illness, may not result in the reduction or remission of clinical symptoms.
Methodology
The research discussed in the chapter is drawn from interviews with male participants aged 18–40 years, who participated in four different football and mental health projects.
Findings
The chapter outlines three key ways in which participants perceived that football contributes positively to their recovery. Participants discuss football as providing a “safe space,” free from stigma, and as a setting where they can develop productive and engaging social relationships with medical professionals, support staff, coaches, and peers. Finally, they perceive football as a context in which they can begin to rework and redefine their identities, to move away from identities constructed around illness and vulnerability.
Research Limitations/Implications
The chapter concludes by considering both the value and limitations of football as a mechanism for supporting recovery.
Book Chapter
International labour migration in english league football
It is well established that modern football originated in Britain and spread around the globe in the wake of political and economic empires. Once established in the peripheral regions of the world, football developed to the extent that South America and Africa became sources of labour for the top professional leagues of Europe. Also, with the break up of the Soviet Union and related national realignments, there have been shifts in the patterns of labour migration in football within Europe itself. In this regard, football must be considered as a multi-faceted and multi-directional process. This study establishes a model for understanding this process and explains it in the context of extensive research carried out with migrant foreign (non-United Kingdom) players in England's professional football league.The research was qualitative and the key methodology used was semi-structured interviews. Interviews were conducted with overseas players (n=16) from a wide range of nationalities playing in England during season 1995/96. As structured context, the political economy of British, European, and world football, is considered in relation to a model of labour migration. The career contingencies and the lived experiences of overseas players are also considered and interpreted in the context of a typology of football labour migration. This typology establishes different categories of sports labour migrants and develops the model of sports labour migration set out by Maguire (1996). In general, this study of football labour migration offers an insight into the broader issues of world football diffusion and development, globalisation processes, and occupational mobility.
Dissertation
Observer Sport Monthly: LAST MONTH'S 10: TEN ODDEST ANIMAL CAMEOS
I was lucky enough to be present at Colchester United v Brentford on 28 November 1970, when probably the most decisive intervention from an animal took place. A long ball was punted towards Brentford goalkeeper Chic Brodie. A dog that had just entered the field of play took this as an invitation to chase it and did so with great enthusiasm - to the extent that, when it arrived at where Brodie was gathering the ball, it was unable to stop in time and collided with his knee. Brodie was carried off and never played in the League again. I believe that the rooster Diomede was given to the French squad by an Australian farmer, a former rugby player himself. He was named after Bernard Diomede, the footballer, at the suggestion of Jo Maso, the assistant coach, who felt that Diomede was the perfect example of a good team-mate. Diomede the cockerel had the luxury of being cleaned out, fed and watered by a player nominated by the players' court at the end of each day. However, he was not a happy rooster, as Raphael Ibanez claimed. His comb began to turn black and forward Patrick Tabacco diagnosed that Diomede was depressed and missing his hens. He was returned to his donor forthwith.
Newspaper Article
Cassini finds molecular hydrogen in the Enceladus plume
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an ice-covered ocean; a plume of material erupts from cracks in the ice. The plume contains chemical signatures of water-rock interaction between the ocean and a rocky core. We used the Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft to detect molecular hydrogen in the plume. By using the instrument’s open-source mode, background processes of hydrogen production in the instrument were minimized and quantified, enabling the identification of a statistically significant signal of hydrogen native to Enceladus. We find that the most plausible source of this hydrogen is ongoing hydrothermal reactions of rock containing reduced minerals and organic materials. The relatively high hydrogen abundance in the plume signals thermodynamic disequilibrium that favors the formation of methane from CO₂ in Enceladus’ ocean.
Journal Article
Assessing health care disparities in US organ procurement organizations
There is extensive system-wide evidence of disparities in access to organ transplantation in the US based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. However, little information is available regarding care disparities among US organ procurement organizations (OPOs). Commissioned by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), we studied racial/ethnic disparities in organ donation and transplantation across and within OPOs. Based on the 2020 CMS final rule, we calculated OPO donation and organ transplantation rates with 95% confidence intervals for racial (Black, White, and Asian American and Pacific Islander, AAPI) and ethnic (Hispanic and non-Hispanic) groups. OPOs were ranked with national rates as references and classified according to the CMS 3-tier system. Of the 58 OPOs, 8 and 4 had donation rates lower for Black and AAPI donors than for White donors; 21 and 18 had organ transplantation rates lower for Black and AAPI donors than for White donors; 1 and 1 had a donation rate or organ transplantation rate lower for Hispanic donors than for non-Hispanic donors. Significant racial/ethnic disparities in organ donation and transplantation exist among many OPOs, whereas the overall OPO performance is dominated by White and non-Hispanic donors. These disparities may be influenced by variations and structural barriers in resource access, donor identification, transplantation referral, and waitlisting processes–some of which lie partially outside the direct control of OPOs and disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations. Results support equitable organ donation and allocation through enhanced awareness of health care disparities, increased accountability of OPOs, and informed policies and interventions.
Journal Article