By Haylie Wright Sometimes I wonder who I am and what is the right or wrong way to live or be’[1]. ‘People usually run from us when they know we used to be child soldiers.… Continue Reading Reintegration Processes for Former Child Soldiers: Should Sport Matter?
By Grant Jarvie, Ross Walker, Amy Woodgate, Fan Hong Eric Henry Liddell was born on the 16th January 1902. The Paris Olympics of 2024 also marks 100 years since the Olympic events of 1924, in… Continue Reading Sacrifice, Compassion and an Inspiration: Eric Henry Liddell – 100 Years – A Timeline and a Tribute
By Hiroshi Komatsu IntroductionThe world of sport is not just an arena of competition or a pursuit of fitness; it is, fundamentally, a space for transformation. The UNESCO Charter of 1978 positioned sport as a ‘fundamental… Continue Reading Breaking Boundaries: Voices from Danhiko
By Grant Jarvie University of Edinburgh Sone Key Facts • 9th Women’s Football World Cup.• 8 teams qualifying for the first time. • 32 team format for the first time. • More than 1.3 million tickets… Continue Reading 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup –
By Grant Jarvie, Paul Widdop and Jake Barrett The evidence below has resulted from our 2022 Scottish Women’s National Football Team Fan Survey. The purpose of the research has been: (i) to offer observations and findings… Continue Reading 2022 Scottish Women’s National Team Football Fan Survey.
By Grant Jarvie University of Edinburgh The journey to this World Cup has been attached with so much controversy it is necessary to ask what exactly would success be for this World Cup? Normally the football… Continue Reading Football, The World Cup and the Black, Black Oil
By Professor Wray Vamplew University of Edinburgh Individuals are important in sport but sports history should be more concerned with the collective and the countable. The biography of golfer Harry Vardon, the Tiger Woods of his… Continue Reading Why we need quantitative sports history
By Susanna Neumann “Girls and women with disabilities should not be ignored because sport is their right!” (Interviewee 6, 01.08.2019) “Sport is the key; it is the main key of everything! Sport brings us together, no… Continue Reading Sport, disability and gender: Voices from sub-saharan african girls and women
Dr Hugh D MacLennan, Academy of Sport, Edinburgh University In the year when the art of making a caman or shinty stick was officially designated “critically endangered” the 2019 Dr Johnnie Cattanach Memorial Lecture at the… Continue Reading The Making of the Caman “An elegant weapon, graceful to wield” –
By Paul Widdop, Manchester Metropolitan University Alex Bond, Leeds Metropolitan University and Daniel Parnell, Liverpool University All told 1900 was quite a year, as wars and industrial strikes broke out across the globe, something else was… Continue Reading Game of loans
