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Research has identified barriers to sport participation among girls and women from systemically oppressed groups (e.g., Black, Indigenous, low-socioeconomic status). However, relatively little is known about the effectiveness of programs designed to ameliorate or remove those barriers and...

Sports coaches play a key role in participants’ sports experiences and can positively influence their social, mental, and physical health. Nevertheless, sports coaches are often volunteers and may benefit from knowledge and support regarding the fostering of their sports participants’ health and...

This comprehensive document highlights a fruitful year of remarkable achievements in harnessing the power of table tennis for positive social change.

This report presents the findings of a piece of independent research which sought to examine Comic Relief’s ‘Sport for Change’ funding approach.

This toolkit is designed to support organisations who have identified the need to build more intentional mental health support into their sport for change programmes

This report presents the key learnings from the Comic Relief's Ahead of the Game UK funding programme.  

In the context of Sport for Development (SFD), researchers have primarily examined the concept of development (Black, 2017). However, little attention has been given to the concept of sport, which is expected to be the differentiating factor.

Sport Mega Events such as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games have the potential to act as catalysts for promoting and advancing social change.

The research is clear that even well-intentioned programs have unintended outcomes, and sport has a deeply rooted history of being used for both positive and negative outcomes.

Our report summarises the campaign activities and deliverables and provides key insights on how to reshape sport and development to be more equitable, inclusive and impactful. 

The report introduces the four pillars of the STEP framework - a framework to integrate healthy living into everyday lives.

SDP scholars identified critical shortcomings in "Deporte y Cambio Social," a program empowering girls through soccer, exploring power dynamics and offering improvement strategies.