Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity

Richard Medcalf is Director of the Institute of Sport and Human Science at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Vice-Chair of Sport4Life UK, a Birmingham-based charity which exists to transform the lives of young people through the power of sport. He has published on issues primarily related to inclusive practice in sport and physical education. Chris Mackintosh is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is a National Advisor to England Golf, the Sport and Recreation Alliance and Antigua and Barbuda governments, and is working with the Japan 2020 Olympics as an invited Policy Advisor on ‘soft participation legacy’. He has worked with policy stakeholders including Sport England, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, FA, RFU, Rugby Football League and many local authorities on national strategies, and bespoke academic research projects. He was the lead Academic Advisor on the outdoor recreation Reconomics (2014) and Reconomics Plus (2017) reports that underpinned policy advocacy and two parliamentary debates on the value of outdoor recreation in the UK. In 2017–2018 he undertook the independent review of the United Kingdom Coaching Certificate (UKCC).

1. Researching Difference, 2. The Research Process, 3. Using Interviews to Explore Experiences of Disability in Sport and Physical Activity, 4. ‘No Strings Attached’: Reflections on Using Puppets in Focus Group Interviews with Vulnerable Children in Sport and Physical Activity, 5. Using Visual Research Tools When Working with Children in a Primary School Setting, 6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Researching a Masters Swimming Community, 7. Using a Scale to Explore Pre-service Physical Education Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Difference: Methodological Opportunities and Tensions, 8. Measuring Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Obesity Through Childhood, 9. Conducting Cross-cultural Research with Diverse Ethnic Groups in Sport and Physical Activity Settings, 10. Research in Action, 11. Researching Difference and Otherness: Next Steps and Challenges in Sport and Physical Activity