New explainer video on the Circular Economy (and Bicycles)!
Dr. Courtney Szto, Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, CSS Affiliate, and member of the Mobilizing Sport and Sustainability Collective, explains the circular economy, referring to the ‘life’ of bicycles as an example, in this explainer video. Visit the Sport and Sustainability Media and Education Resource to watch the video!
News coverage and new article on gender equality and upcoming Paris Olympics
CSS Leadership Team member Dr. Andrea Bundon and CSS Affiliate Dunja Antonovic are featured in coverage on gender equality and the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics in two new articles. They emphasize strategies for promoting gender equity across levels of competition. Read the articles below: Why the 2024 Paris Olympics are Pivotal for Gender Equity in […]
Event recap: Gavin Weedon on Active Bodies in the Anthropocene
Dr. Gavin Weedon is Associate Professor in Sociology of Sport, Health and the Body and Head of the Sport and Society Research Group in the Department of Sport Science at Nottingham Trent University. Gavin is visiting UBC’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability this month, supported by an international research partnership grant he received through NTU, […]
Upcoming Event! “Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey”
Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vp0__X5RNw[/youtube] A virtual panel discussion Thursday, November 30th at 3pm (PST) If “hockey is Canada’s game,” what does it say about ‘Canada’ and ‘hockey’ when Indigenous people are being excluded from playing the sport they love? What does it mean when all-Indigenous teams are […]
Visit the Sport and Sustainability Research and Education Media Resource!
Interested in media and educational resources related to sport and sustainability? Visit the Sport and Sustainability Research and Education Media Resource! This new Resource is designed to be the primary knowledge mobilization hub for UBC’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability. Contents of the Resource were contributed mostly by members of a CSS-affiliated group called the […]
Dunja Antunovic on Feminist Sports Media Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Feminist Sports Media Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions On Friday, October 20th, 2023, visiting scholar Dr. Dunja Antunovic presented on feminist sport media studies at the Chan Gunn Pavilion to UBC Kinesiology grad students and faculty. Abstract: For decades, scholars have raised concerns about gender inequalities in media coverage. Although women’s sports receive significant […]
Talk by visiting PhD student Frida Austmo Wågan
UBC Kinesiology students and faculty gathered on Friday, October 27th, 2023, at the Chan Gunn Pavilion to hear Frida Austmo Wågan — a visiting Ph.D. student with UBC’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability and the School of Kinesiology, through UBC Global’s Visiting International Research Student Program — discuss her PhD research and her research group […]
Event Summary: Liv Yoon on Envisioning Alternative Socio-environmental Futures through Sociocultural Kinesiology
The second Sport and the Environment webinar featured Liv Yoon and was titled: Envisioning Alternative Socio-Environmental Futures Through Sociocultural Kinesiology Dr. Liv Yoon is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Her research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequities, and health, […]
Event Summary: Dan Wilcock on Tackling Environmental Issues in Canadian Sport
Sport & The Environment: Politics, Practices and Preferred Futures Speaker Series Co-Hosted by the UBC Kinesiology’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS) and Brock University’s Centre for Sport Capacity (CSC) Video recording of talk by Dan Wilcock, Thursday, March 3, 2022 About the speaker: Dan Wilcock is a lawyer, with a Master of Law in […]
Two new articles out on bicycling and homelessness
Two new articles on homelessness and bicycling by CSS Research and Information Coordinator Jeanette Steinmann and CSS Director Dr. Brian Wilson — articles based on Jeanette’s MA research — have been published in the journals Mobilities and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. Different Spokes for Different Folks: experiences with cycling and the bicycle from […]