Sport as an Agent of Change

Funding: 2023: $13,215
2024: $4,000
2025: $23,155

Project Member(s): Darcy, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2023

Summary: The project investigates intersectional inequities in sport participation for girls, women and non-binary people in Queensland by working with them to envision legacies for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Using a cocreation approach the research will identify how and what benefits can be achieved through legacy planning that engages with end-users who have historically been marginalised in sport. In doing so, the project will deliver evidence-based resources to improve engagement in sport and to build capacity and sustain meaningful change for communities and organisations.

FOR Codes: Organised sports, Gender and sexualities, Ability and disability, Social change, Feminist methodologies , Sport and leisure management

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.