🚨 Exciting new vacancy 🚨 Here in the Centre for Social Justice in Sport & Society we work closely in partnership with Women in Sport towards improving gender equity for women & girls in sport. One area in which we work closely, with world-leading impact, is improving sport for women as coaches. 👇🧵

Today we’re publishing our latest report with ⁦Child of the North⁩ calling for schools to be supported to fix the broken school food system and boost physical activity to tackle Britain’s child obesity crisis. centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/ch…

Today I shared the 6th edition of the alternative provision PE and Sport newsletter. If you’d like a copy please get in touch! #ThisisAP

Come and join an amazing team!!

Theorising the potential of physical education and school sport to support the educational engagement, transitions and outcomes of care‐experienced young people - bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be… Dr Rachel Sandford
Dr Tom Quarmby Dr Oliver Hooper

Because I can’t be at #AIESEP2024 this week and I’m missing out on the best place to be, I’ll be avoiding Twitter to ensure the jealousy doesn’t ruin me… Anthony J. Maher let me know how fun it was when you’re back.

Join us on a journey to explore the benefits of incorporating physical activity into primary school lessons. Dr Tom Quarmby, Andy Daly-Smith, and Dr Danielle Powell share insights on how it impacts students' experiences and perceptions. #RealWorldApplication 🏃‍♂️📚 brnw.ch/21wJrca

Today we’re at Plymouth Marjon University for the first alternative provision sport experience day with Wave MAT! Some fantastic well thought out activities on show!

Youth Sport Trust

Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity to work within the charity sector for an organisation that is working towards building a happier and healthier generation? Well, you're in the right place! 🙌

We're currently recruiting for two positions 👇

✅ Programme Officer

Delighted that our Translational Journal of the ACSM special issue is now live

This collection of 8 articles explores various stakeholders, implementation processes, & the practice of co-designing #PAL & WSPA. Collectively, they highlight the challenges of ‘walking the talk’

#CreatingActiveSchools

Don’t forget to register for the PESP invisible college on Sunday 8th September. All the details and registration can be found here: 👇👇👇

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🚨 Sharing new special issue: 'Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people' in British Educational Research Journal (British Educational Research Journal). Nine great articles, edited by Dr Zoe Baker, Katie Ellis and me - please share!

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Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England. Ofsted did not prosecute a single provider in 2022-23, despite launching 845 investigations into suspected illegal children’s homes.
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Opportunity alert 🚨 ‼️ 🔔

Strategic Lead for Football and Multi-Sport.

Role: ensure that local communities have more access to places to play football and other sports in their local area.

#Sport #PhysicalActivity #Multisport #Football

#UnitingTheMovement
Active Partnerships

Lots of brilliant resources in this link for sports coaches to engage with the views of the children they work with. So important to keep all children in the sports that they love #PlayTheirWay .

An enjoyable discussion to write, informed by the voices of care experienced young people and care leavers from the #R2BA project. PE can (and does) provide valuable opportunities for engagement, connection and personal development. Dr Tom Quarmby Dr Oliver Hooper

Excited to see this special issue of British Educational Research Journal published!

Check out our #OpenAccess paper on the potential of PE for promoting care-experiended young people's positive development ⤵️
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Dr Rachel Sandford Dr Tom Quarmby

Today’s children and youth are unhappier and unhealthier than ever Youth Sport Trust

Our Carnegie School of Sport Centre for Child & Adolescent Physical Literacy aims to improve children’s and adolescents’ physical literacy to promote their happiness and health

Great to deliver a webinar on trauma-aware approaches within youth sport coaching today with Dr Tom Quarmby, Dr Rachel Sandford & Shirley Gray for the Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport Edge Hill University ⛹️🏿🏊🤸🏽‍♀️🤾🏻🤺

Thanks for the invite Dr Melanie Lang!

Still time to sign up to the webinar below. Come listen to some awesome voices (and mine) on trauma-aware approaches within youth sport coaching. 👇👇👇