Author: brianwil

I am very pleased to welcome Joseph Silva to the Sport Environment Peace Media group!

You can learn more about Joseph’s interests and background here.

Welcome Joseph, very excited to be working with you!

It was great to welcome back Gavin for a talk and visit to discuss collaborative research! See here for details.

Trinity College Dublin hosted that Cycling and Society Research Group Annual Symposium on September 7-8, 2023.  Jeanette presented the following paper in a session entitled ‘Integration’:

Exploring cycling accessibility and bicycle parking in older buildings in Vancouver, Canada – Jeanette Steinmann, Donna Cumming, Brian Wilson (University of British Columbia, Canada), Tim Welsh, Chelsea Krahn, Tim Davidson, Gavin Davidson, Emily Bardutz (HUB Cycling)

Well done Jeanette!

 

 

I am excited to welcome Frida Austmo Wågan from Nord University, Norway who will be spending time with the Sport Environment Peace Media group — and the Centre for Sport and Sustainability — for the Fall semester of 2023! See below for more about Frida’s background and interests. We look forward to working with you Frida!

Frida Austmo Wågan is a Ph.D. student in sport sociology at Nord University and the deputy chairman of RESPONSE research group (Research Group for Sport and Society). Her research interests are in sports and sustainability, both in terms of athletes’ mental health and well-being and the environmental practices in sports, and her Ph.D. focuses on environmental initiatives in football. More specifically, the thesis uses football as a context to examine how sports may act as an important arena to promote changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning environmental sustainability, by asking “How does environmental movements within the international football context work to promote more environmentally sustainable attitudes and practices?” and “How is this perceived and responded to by stakeholders at different organizational levels?”. In order to explore this, an integral case-study of the environmental organization “We Play Green” will be conducted using a mixed methods approach including qualitative interviews, discourse analysis and a quantitative survey. The study emphasizes how players initiate and engage with change at different organizational levels, and how such efforts are perceived by other stakeholders such as coaches, leaders and other players.

 

From August 14-17, 2023 the World Congress of the Sociology of Sport took place in Ottawa. In a session entitled ‘Sport, Environment
& Sustainability’ Julia presented the following paper

Lawrence, Julia — “I Can Touch It, and I Can Feel It, and I Can See It Happening…” – Outdoor Athletes’ Perspectives on Ecological
and Climate Learning Through Their Sport

Well done Julia!

 

Congratulations Jeanette!

The article, that explores debates about the future of public golf courses in Vancouver – and the economic, access & equity, and environmental frames that stakeholders used to justify different viewpoints — can be found here.

You can find the publication — entitled “The underground bicycle economy: an exploration of social supports and economic resources that Vancouver’s homeless and variably-housed cyclists utilize” — here. Congratulations Jeanette!

The article, entitled ‘Will the bicycle help us address pressing social issues?’, can be found here in The Conversation, and here in the National Post. Congratulations Jeanette and Mitch!

From April 20-23, the NASSS conference was held in Montreal. In a session entitled ‘Cycling Towards Social Change? The Role of Bicycles for Development’ (convened and moderated by Mitch!), Jeanette and Mitch presented the following:

Mitchell McSweeney, Lyndsay Hayhurst, Janet Otte & Brian Wilson
Social entrepreneurship and gender relations in Northern Uganda: Using postcolonial theory to critically explore the use of bicycles for development

Jeanette Steinmann & Brian Wilson
Cycles of poverty: Perspectives on bicycling, recycling, and homelessness in Vancouver

Mitch was also a panelist, for a discussion about the documentary film “Revolutions” – Bike waste and the circular economy (produced by Courtney Szto), which premiered at NASSS.

Well done Jeanette and Mitch!