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Researching Homophobia in Sport
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Profiling LGBT Participation in Sport
This project studies of LGBT participation in sport or how LGBT practice sport. Specifically it studies preferences and behaviour as these may provide us with some measure of the distinctiveness of sexual orientation inequalities and a sense of barriers to participation faced by the LGBT population.
The project collects evidence through questionnaires and interviews. If you would like to take part in the research please fill in our reseach questionnaire. The questionnaire takes about 5 minutes (or less!) to complete.
Find out more about the project and the online questionnaire.
Papers
So far equality policy in the area of sport has mainly focused on discrimination on the grounds of gender, disability and race. Discrimination and inequal treatment towards the lgbt community in sport has received much lesser attention.
As the network has access to a large pool of expertise and experiences, here is a call for those keen on the relationship between sport, law and human rights, discrimination in sport, the sociology of sport, lgbt identity in sport, and so on …. to come forward. Expressions of interest and ideas are most welcome!
We welcome submissions on:
- LGBT health and life-styles
- engagement of the LGBT community with the wider sporting and local community
- discrimination and individual sport development and to the development of communities through sport,
- social and inclusive values of sport
- representation of excluded groups and lgbt in particular
Send your contributions to co-chairs@openathletics.org
Burchick T. and A. Verges. The LGBT Sports Community, Sports and the EU. Sport & EU Newsletter, Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union, Issue
Other Research Projects
- Queering the Pitch, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire Business School.
The research looks at the experiences and motivations of male gay footballers and teams. Read more ...
- Sport and Social Capital in the European Union, Universita' Bocconi, Italy.
This research explores the organisational structures and the nature of relationships between National Governing Bodies and their membership and networks on social capital. Read more ...
Links
University of Loughborough, Gender, Sport and Society Forum
Sports England, Sports Equity Research