Child Safety in Sport: Advancing Evidence, Rights, and Prevention of Abuse

We are seeking a PhD candidate committed to advancing knowledge and practice in child safeguarding within sport. The project can be shaped around the applicant’s background and interests, with potential areas of focus including the lived experiences of individuals impacted by abuse/violence in sport, critical analyses of governance structures, policies, and organisational cultures that enable or prevent harm, or the exploration of prevention/intervention initiatives related to child safeguarding.

Projects may explore how safeguarding measures are designed, implemented, and evaluated within sport organisations, or how children’s voices and rights are recognised in these processes. We are also open to other project ideas related to child safeguarding.

The successful candidate will be situated within our broader Safe and Inclusive Sport Research Group, within the Institute for Health and Sport. Our research group’s overarching aim is to ensure sporting environments are safe, equitable, inclusive and respectful.