Author: brianwil

I am very pleased to welcome Myles de Jong to the Sport Environment Peace Media group!

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

Welcome Myles, very excited to be working with you!

Joseph’s presentation was entitled “Cool Poses, Sanitized Portrayals: Promotional Media Recontextualizations of Breaking during the 2024 Olympic Games”. Congratulations and well done Joseph!

Jeanette was a featured speaker on the panel entitled “Sustainability Communication, Mobility Justice & Climate Action in the Sociology of Sport”. Congratulations and well done Jeanette!

See here for details about and recording of the event — co-hosted by Centre for Sport and Sustainability and Master of High Performance Coaching and Technical Leadership (MHPCTL) programme. Congratulations on a fantastic presentation Julia!

Brian worked with UBC Studios (and with helpful input from many others!) to develop an ‘explainer video’ entitled: Sport, the Environment and Sustainability: Is ‘Sustainable Sport’ Always ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Sport?

The video is housed on the Sport and Sustainability Media and Education Resource, and can be found here.

Jeanette worked with UBC Studios to develop this wonderful ‘explainer video’ on Mobility Justice! The video is housed on the Sport and Sustainability Media and Education Resource, and can be found here.

Congratulations and well done Jeanette!

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.