This project involved an evaluation of the national YA Peer Leader Programme aimed to increase participation among less active young people through peer led activity.
Physical Literacy Programme for Schools
The evaluation considered the impact of bespoke interventions and provided an overarching survey to assess programme outcomes.
Coach Education: Non-Formal and Informal Learning (UK Sport)
This project involved a documentary review of policy and practice in a range of regulated and non-regulated professions and industries across Europe regarding non-formal and informal learning in coach education. […]
Change 4 Life School Sports Club
This research evaluated Change4Life School Sports Clubs in primary and secondary schools and the community through a large scale, experimental, controlled design at the forefront of research in social sciences.
Impact of mega sporting events on children’s rights and other social justice issues
This project involved developing evidence-based insights around the impact of mega sporting events (MSEs) on human rights and social justice issues experienced by children.
Sports Leaders UK Energy Club
This evaluation focused on the volunteers’ perceptions of the impact of Energy Club on their skill levels, confidence and potential future employment. Exploratory data on volunteers’ perceptions of impact on children’s physical activity and knowledge of healthy lifestyles were also presented alongside Regional Managers’ perceptions of impact and delivery.
National School Sports Week
These annual events are designed to motivate pupils to do more sport by celebrating and profiling PE achievements in schools, and provide a platform from which to launch new school based initiatives.
Folkestone: A Town Unearthed
spear completed a demand analysis for ‘A Town Unearthed: Folkestone Before 1500’, a community history archaeology project jointly run by Folkestone People’s History Centre, the Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University.
Diffusion of Olympic Sport
This research examined aspects of the Regional Games (in particular the Far Eastern Championships and the African Games) organised in the pre-War period, and the resistance movement of the GANEFO Games (Games of the New Emerging Forces), hosted in the troubled Post-War context.