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Sport participation: From policy, through facilities, to users’ health, well-being, and social capital
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-19, 16:17 authored by Harish Kumar, Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Ian HodgkinsonIan Hodgkinson, Paul DownwardPaul DownwardSport delivery systems, aimed at facilitating sports participation, represent an inter-institutional, cross-sector collaboration. Researchers focusing on the impact of different levels of sport provision from policy, through facilities, to end users remains limited. The authors address this gap in knowledge through a mixed-methods approach to examine sport participation from the perspective of the whole delivery system. Specifically, focusing on a County Sport Partnership region in the UK, the authors examine sport participation from the policy (macro), facility (meso), and end user (micro) levels. Regional heads responsible for sport development and delivery participated in semi-structured interviews, facility-level managers completed a survey, and end-users across public, private, and outsourced facilities participated in focus groups. Results show a clear divergence between the sport policy goals across the private and public sectors, with significant differences observed between facility types on their social and commercial objectives and their prioritized stakeholder groups. The divergence has little impact on user participation or expression of health, wellbeing, and social capital, offering new evidence on the role of neoliberalism in sport delivery systems.
Funding
We acknowledge financial support from the British Academy: Grant number SRG 2015-16.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Sport Management ReviewVolume
21Issue
5Pages
549-562Citation
KUMAR, H. ... et al, 2018. Sport participation: From policy, through facilities, to users’ health, well-being, and social capital. Sport Management Review, 21(5), pp. 549-562.Publisher
Elsevier © Sport Management Association of Australia and New ZealandVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Sport Management Review and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2018.01.002Acceptance date
2018-01-17Publication date
2018-02-01Copyright date
2018ISSN
1441-3523Publisher version
Language
- en