Tag: Sport

CCSE collaborates with Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games organisers to develop legacy story of change

Last week, CCSE’s Professor Gayle McPherson, Dr Briony Sharp, Professor David McGillivray and Callum McCloskey collaborated with Alex Johnston and colleagues from the Glasgow 2026 Organising Company to deliver eight legacy workshops involving a diverse range of stakeholders with an interest in how the Commonwealth Games can be a catalyst for meaningful impact in 2026 and beyond.

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A Whistle Stop Tour of Events Right at the Heart of the Cycle Messenger World Champs, Yokohama, JPN 🇯🇵

I have just finished a research project in Japan. While travelling around, I had the opportunity to attend the Cycle Messenger World Championships taking place in Yokohama and, to attempt to form an understanding of these events through the lens of a community-based tourism that re-enforces the right to the city for bicycle messengers.  

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Soft Power or Soft Disempowerment?

In the past 3 and half years, I have been investigating the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a soft power tool. I have taken a holistic approach in the context of understanding my case study, this holistic research approach arose because I have never travelled to Japan and I have never experienced the Japanese culture in reality.

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The Challenges of COVID and the Effect of the Pandemic on Physical Activity in Adaptive Sport

It is easy to forget that in a world before COVID there were already significant barriers for people with disabilities and chronic illness who wanted to take part in physical activity. Some of these barriers were physical in nature, such as inaccessible facilities, difficulties in accessing transport and the costs of specialist equipment.

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