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The Wolfenden Gap 50 years on
Wednesday 9 March 2011, 10am - 4pm
English Institute of Sport Sheffield, Coleridge Road, Sheffield, S9 5DA
This one-day seminar will explore the drop-out in young people's sports participation.
The programme is as follows
| Presenter | Organisation | Title |
| Gemma Hart | Sports Industry Research Centre | Young people 16-19 years old: evidence from the Active People Survey |
| Mary Nevill | Institute of Youth Sport | Keeping young people in sport: the challenges |
| Steve Bullough | Sports Industry Research Centre | So what do they want? Student voice and physical activity |
| Laura Green | Brunel University | Working with non-sporty girls |
| Richard Moore | Sports Industry Research Centre | Alternative activities to traditional sports |
| Tess Kay | Brunel University | Run - there's a recession! Sustaining sport when times are hard |
For further information, please contact susie.thompson@shu.ac.uk / e.lang@shu.ac.uk or call 0114 225 5919.
What works for young people and sport? A free seminar
25 March 2009, 10am - 4pm
D104 Main Building, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield Hallam University
This seminar featured speakers from the Sport Industry Research Centre, the Institute of Youth Sport, Substance, and Loughborough University, discussing the latest evidence of 'what works' in engaging young people in and through sport.
The event followed the successful 'How do we know what works?' seminar held in September 2008, which examined the methods by which activity-based community interventions can be monitored and evaluated.
The 'what works' seminar shared best practice in programme design, management and implementation. A summary of the speakers and a copy of each presentation can be found below.
| Maxine Gregory, Sheffield Hallam University | Case study 1: Extending Activities - Sport Unlimited, Sport England (PDF 6.90MB) |
| Gemma Hart, Sheffield Hallam University | Case study 2: Sports Legacy - Coalfields Regeneration Trust (PDF 0.98MB) |
| Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University | Case study 3: School Sport Partnerships - DfES, DCMS, YST and Sport England (PDF 38KB) |
| Ruth Jeanes, Institute of Youth Sport | Case study 4: Chance to Shine (Cricket Foundation) (PDF 4.82MB) |
| Tess Kay, Institute of Youth Sport | Case study 5: Youth sports volunteering projects (PDF 5.79MB) |
| Tim Crabbe, Substance | Case study 6: Positive Futures - Home Office (PDF 593KB) |
| Peter Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University | Plenary session: 'What Works?' (PDF 49KB) |
NB: To find out more about any or all of the speakers, please download the biography document (Word 34KB).
The plenary session was led by Professor Peter Taylor and led to discussions on the scope of sport, action research approaches and the use of evidence. Whilst it is not possible to produce a conclusive list of 'what works', there was agreement that the research presented had included some common themes and best practice examples.
For further information please contact Susie Thompson on 0114 225 5919 or at susie.thompson@shu.ac.uk.
'How do we know what works' half day seminar
Wednesday 24 September 2008
On 24 September SIRC hosted a free half day seminar centred on the theme of 'How do we know what works?', which looked at new approaches to monitoring and evaluating sports based community interventions.
The seminar was jointly hosted by Professor Tim Crabbe (SIRC and Substance), Dr Gavin Mellor (Substance), Maxine Gregory (SIRC) and Gemma Hart (SIRC), all sharing their views and experiences of evaluation.
The seminar was attended by 50 delegates offering wide representation of the sporting sector, including: Local Authorities, CSPs, consultants and academics.
> Download the presentation (PDF 2.63MB)
If you would like to share your views on monitoring and evaluation you can do so by visiting www.substanceviews.net.
Forecasting China's Performance in the Beijing Olympic Games 2008
Tuesday 22 July 2008
Pennine Theatre, City Campus, Sheffield Hallam University
The Beijing Olympic Games will open on 8 August 2008, the luckiest day in the Chinese calendar. Whilst the timing of the opening ceremony has been chosen deliberately because it is considered lucky, once the Games begin China will not be reliant on luck as it strives to top the medals' table.
Since bursting on to the international sporting scene in Los Angeles 1984 when China won 15 gold medals in its debut Olympic Games, China has subsequently enjoyed a generation of continuous improvement culminating in second place in Athens 2004 - just three gold medals behind the USA. With the benefit of home advantage and a planning process that goes back to the early 1990s, just how many gold medals will China win in Beijing and where will it be placed in the medals' table?
Professor Simon Shibli's inaugural professorial lecture is concerned with addressing these questions and a host more, such as
- in which sports will China win medals?
- how will China's women athletes perform relative to their male peers?
- where can we expect to see improvements in China's sporting success? and
- what are the elite sport benefits of being the host nation of the Olympic Games?
After the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games have concluded, for the next four years the sporting eyes of the world will turn their gaze to London.
- what are the implications of this research for London 2012?
- what will Team GB need to do in order to achieve the stated aim of 4th place in the 2012 medals' table?
Conferences
The impact that the work of SIRC staff has on policy making at the highest level nationally and internationally can in part be gauged the conferences at which senior staff have been invited to give keynote presentations.
Our representation at major conferences transcends all of the research themes in which we operate and an indicative list of our recent conference contributions is presented below.
Recent conference contributions
2007
- National Olympic Academy: British Olympic Association, Greenwich: Predicting the performance of China in Beijing 2008. (Simon Shibli)
- Institute of Sport and Recreation Management (ISRM) National Conference: Exploiting the power of Active People (Simon Shibli)
2006
- Countryside Recreation Network, Young people and the countryside, Sheffield (Simon Shibli)
- Illes Baleares Forum 2006, Noos Institute, Palma de Mallorca: Sports tourism as an opportunity for the development of destinations: A sports events' perspective (Simon Shibli)
- ISRM national seminar, Comprehensive Performance Assessment: performance management, benchmarking and data collection, Loughborough (Peter Taylor)
- 'Sport, Communities and Engagement' Conference, Melbourne; International Sociological Association Conference (Tim Crabbe)
2005
- Countryside Recreation Network, Demonstrating the economic value of countryside recreation, Sheffield (Simon Shibli)
- European Association of Sport Management Conference 2005, Newcastle/Gateshead (Chris Gratton)
- LGA Tourism Forum: The impacts of sports events (Richard Coleman)
- National Olympic Academy: British Olympic Association, Greenwich, 2005: Bangs for Bucks? (Simon Shibli)
2003
- Driving up Participation, Sport England, London (Peter Taylor)
- Vienna Marathon Launch Conference: The economic impact of major sports events (Richard Coleman)
2002
- European Association of Sport Management Conference 2002, Finland: The future for sports economics (Chris Gratton)
- Sports Foundation Denmark, Sports Events and Economic Impact, Copenhagen: Economic analysis of the World Boxing Championships 2001, the World Badminton Championships 1997 and Euro '96. (Chris Gratton and Simon Shibli)
- Tourism and Sports Symposium, Philoxenia International Tourism Exhibition, Thessaloniki, Greece (Peter Taylor)
2001
- Sports Development Conference, Irish Sports Council, Dublin (Peter Taylor)
Peer reviewed conferences
In addition to making invited presentations at national and international conferences, both staff and students are provided with the opportunity to disseminate the results of their own research at peer reviewed conferences.
SIRC staff have a strong relationship with the annual European Association for Sport Management Conference (EASM) with regular attendances as delegates, key note speakers and members of the Scientific Committee. Our research students have the opportunity to experience and present at the EASM conference (and others) and notable contributions by our PhD students in the last few years are listed below.
LSA 2008 Liverpool 8-10 July
- The balance of benefit and burden - child protection and sports volunteers. Peter Taylor
- Regeneration through sport evidence from British Coalfields areas. Peter Taylor, Maxine Gregory and Gemma Hart
12th Canadian Congress of Leisure Research 2008, Montreal 13-16 May
- Catering for diversity in English public sector sports facilities. Peter Taylor
EASM 2007 Turin 12-15 September
- An evaluation of the pilot community sport programme in Northern Ireland (2) (Paul Donnelly, Maxine Gregory and Simon Shibli)
- The contribution of sports sponsorship to consumer-based brand equity (Leah Donlan)
LSA 2007 Eastbourne 3-5 July
- What is happening to sports volunteers in the leisure society? Peter Taylor
- Efficiency of English public sector sports facilities. Peter Taylor, Yi-De Liu
EASM 2006 Nicosia 6-9 September
- An evaluation of the pilot community sport programme in Northern Ireland (1) (Paul Donnelly, Maxine Gregory and Simon Shibli)
- Benchmarking the effectiveness of equity promotion through community sport facilities (Yi-De Liu and Peter Taylor)
EASM 2005 Newcastle 7-10 September
- Improving the management of public sports facilities: A new approach to measuring efficiency, equity and effectiveness (Yi-De Liu and Peter Taylor)
- Community sport: Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework and baseline (Paul Donnelly)
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