9A – Climate change and the future of the Winter Olympic Games: athlete and coach perspectives

8A: Leveraging Sport Events for Sustainable Outcomes

Fostering a Sport Participation Legacy: The Importance of a Sport Facility

Economies of deviance: Sex work and sport mega-event

Project summary In proposing a dissertation topic, I built from the sport for development literature to argued that (sport) event-led urban development could not be contained within or used to solely advance the socio-politicaleconomic agenda of the bourgeois, cosmopolitan class. Using this vantage point, I developed an interest in investigating the informal (sometimes viewed as…

Managing sport events to maximize positive impacts

Project summary The value of sport events extends beyond the competition itself to society at-large. The overarching goal of this project was to understand how to maximize the positive impacts associated with hosting non-mega sport events. Guided by the idea that effective event design and leveraging strategies can increase positive outcomes from sport events, the specific objectives of this project were to identify:  Conclusions:  Research methods Objective 1 (Inspire an intention to participate) – Questionnaires were completed by 353 spectators…