Sport and Physical Activity: What is preventing participation? The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee recently took evidence on the participation of children and young people in Sport and Physical Activity (PA). As part of the SPICe fellowship programme, …

The 2nd Blog Post from @davidmeir77.bsky.social and mine's Scottish Parliament Fellowship Evidence Review has now been published - just in time for my presentation on this project at the @leisure-studies.bsky.social conference this week!

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Headed to the @leisure-studies.bsky.social Conference in York? Check out presentations by two SEG members: @matthutch96.bsky.social and @dscottresearch.bsky.social!
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A really interesting line-up of talks for the @sportanthro.bsky.social conference, really excited to engage with such a wide range of topics!

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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Reimagining MEL: Co-Designing with the Capability Approach This article invites Sport for Development (SfD) organisations to co-design a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework inspired by the Capability Approach (CA). The aim is to collaborative...

Take a look at James Lever's article, which outlines his work on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Sport for Development and calls for organisations to participate - please share widely and consider taking part!
www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/...

Been waiting a long time to do this - the first time I've been sent a physical copy of the book I contributed a chapter to! Such a pleasure to work with Karen Petry and Louis Moustakas on this, thank you for making the process so easy and for a fascinating book.

Tomorrow is Earth Day 🌏

Tomorrow is our final Earth Month webinar on women’s sport and climate with @sportmgmtprof.bsky.social, Hilary Meyer and @maddyorr.bsky.social

See you there!

Sport and Physical Activity Participation and Policy in Scotland: What, How, and Why? Scotland’s concern with physical activity (PA) has been apparent ever since the establishment of the devolved Government in 1999, when the white paper, “Towards a Healthier Scotland” was published.…

New blog post from @davidmeir77.bsky.social and myself on the @scotparl.bsky.social website about our Academic Fellowship with SPICe. Sport and Physical Activity Participation and Policy in Scotland: What, How, and Why? spice-spotlight.scot/2025/03/26/s...

Earth Month is back! Webinars 1, 15, and 22 April. Register via our website.

Almost Earth Month again and our annual webinar series is back! We hope to see you online for these important conversations.

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Dundee University staff begin three-week strike Members of the University and College Union are taking industrial action over potential job cuts

We’re committed to the university’s long term future, but this cannot mean throwing staff on the scrap heap #SaveHE #StoptheCuts @ducuuo.bsky.social
Dundee University staff begin three-week strike www.bbc.com/news/article...

a woman in an orange fur coat says hey hey you guys ALT: a woman in an orange fur coat says hey hey you guys

*taps mic*

*clears throat*

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The Sport Ecology Group is officially live on BlueSky!

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LSA membership includes access to a back catalogue of publications covering a wide range of content on leisure studies.

Leisure Studies Graduate Paper Award: Submissions open!

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Submissions should be sent to Professor Thomas Fletcher, t.e.fletcher@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Deadline for receipt of submissions: Thursday May 1st 2025

A new outlet covers climate policy in the language Brazil knows best: Soccer. With quippy headlines, a "betting" portal, a tournament bracket, and more, Central da COP is pulling out all the stops to inform Brazilians ahead of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference.

Innovative initiative by @obsclima.bsky.social, #Brazil's top #Climate #NGO to use the language of #Football to communicate and educate about #ClimateChange!
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social @fbandclimate.bsky.social @climateblawg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

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50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference | York St John University The 50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference provides opportunities for researchers and practitioners to examine a range of social and spatial justice issues.

The second call for papers for LSA 2025 is available! To submit your abstract, please access templates and instructions @ leisurestudies.org/lsa2025/ and email your abstract to lsa2025@yorksj.ac.uk.

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LSA Conference 2025 Timeline:

7 March 2025: Second date for abstract submission
28 March 2025: Decision notification to authors
2 May 2025: Early bird registration closes
29 June 2025: Conference registration closes
29 June 2025: Final presentation submission
8-10 July 2025: LSA York 2025

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What is the problem? A WPR analysis of physical activity policy in Scotland By employing a What is the Problem Presented to be (WPR) analysis, this research critically explores Scottish physical activity (PA) and sport policies since devolution in 1999. The rationale for u...

Following on from our Country Profile article this is the latest article exploring PA & sport policy in Scotland.
What is the problem? A WPR analysis of physical activity policy in Scotland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First post on Bluesky! David Meir and myself have our first output from a SPICe academic fellowship exploring barriers to physical activity in Scotland: digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBrie...