Geoff Nichols
Biographic Data
| ID | 339021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Nichols |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichols |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2477-0865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Para além do currículo
Este artigo objetiva realizar uma análise descritiva de uma experiência de ensino-aprendizagem da tradução audiovisual da língua de sinais (TALS) em uma atividade de extensão universitária desenvolvida no Laboratório de Tradução Audiovisual da Língua de Sinais (Latravilis) da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Trata-se da tradução de uma série de comédia, do tipo sitcom, intitulada "Baby & Rose", produzida com apoio da Agência Nacional …
The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK
This paper reviews recent work on community asset transfers (CAT): a transfer of management of facilities from the public sector to the third sector, largely led by volunteers. The emergence of CATs is placed in the context of the development of community organisations and their relation to the state. Transfer has been stimulated by cuts in local government budgets since 2010. The review focusses on leisure facilities because these are non-statut…
Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs
Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective eva…
Avaliação Da Compreensão Em Libras Por Alunos Surdos
Com base em uma experiência de pesquisa realizada na Universidade de Barcelona, Espanha optamos por criar também no Brasil um instrumento que contribuísse com as práticas pedagógicas apoiando o professor no que concerne às avaliações da compreensão de seus alunos surdos em Libras. Com este objetivo, foi elaborado um vídeo com a enunciação, em Libras, de uma fábula, e um elenco de 15 perguntas relativas à esta, resultando em duas versões do instru…
IGen
iGen: why today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy – and completely unprepared for adulthood – and what that means for the rest of us." Leisure Studies, 37(2), pp. 238–239
Volunteering in Community Sports Associations
This review paper focuses on volunteers in community sports associations (CSAs). Such associations are a major context of sports volunteering across Europe, Canada and Australia—the countries in which a multitude of sports clubs are represented by governing bodies of sport. Their importance is not only in the large numbers of volunteers involved but also in the benefits of such associations to society. The clearest of these is the provision of op…
Localism and the Big Society
This paper critically examines the ‘asset transfer’ of leisure services from the public to the voluntary sector. Asset transfer might be theorised as ‘austerity localism’, in which volunteers are obliged to fill the gaps left by retreating public provision, or as ‘progressive localism’, which represents new opportunities through the localism and Big Society agendas to develop more locally responsive, cooperative and mutualist visions. In this way…
Volunteering and Income Inequality
Wilkinson and Pickett, in their 2009 book The Spirit Level , found that, in rich countries, income inequality was negatively associated with a range of indicators of well-being, but they did not consider the relationship with volunteering. This paper seeks to fill that gap. Using existing data sources, it shows that, among European countries, higher levels of volunteering are associated with lower levels of income inequality. The relationship is …
How much is enough? The love of money, and the case for the good life
How much is enough? The love of money, and the case for the good life." Leisure Studies, 35(4), pp. 505–506
The legacy costs of delivering the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games through regulatory capitalism
The governance structure of the 2012 Olympic Games illustrates characteristics of ‘regulatory capitalism’ in which government awards an initial contract to deliver a project to a private-sector umbrella organisation. To deliver the 2012 Games, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is estimated to have awarded over 75,000 (sub)contracts to private companies. The government’s ability to make political interven…
Global sports policy
Globalisation is a difficult topic to write about and relate to sports policy because it is both a process and a state that is being moved towards. It has economic, political, cultural and ecologic
Sports Clubs' Volunteers
The aim of this study is to re-evaluate the nature of bonding and bridging social capital in sports clubs. Exploratory research involving interviews with club volunteers reveals that shared values and norms of commitment to the sport or the club are an important dimension of homophilic and heterophilic ties. These are expressed in the recruitment of new volunteers and explain the reluctance to recruit from outside the club. While 'sameness' and '…
The Psychological Contract of Volunteers
This paper considers the ways in which research into the psychological contract of volunteers have been constrained by the direct transfer of measures from the study of employees, and more generally by the assumptions in the dominant psychological contract discourse. After examining these assumptions the paper proposes a revised research agenda, open to the possibility that the psychological contract of volunteers is affected by expectations aris…
Olympic Cities
Lessons from the Volunteering Legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Potential exists for a more multifaceted and interrelated volunteering legacy from mega sporting events than has been recognised by previous research, including not only the continuation and development of volunteering activity, but also the contribution that activity makes to the social inclusion of volunteers, the economic contribution to the development of events in the region, the development of a skilled volunteer workforce and raising the s…
The Rewards of Individual Engagement in Volunteering
This paper examines the experience of volunteering in relation to the latent functions of paid work identified by social psychologists. In-depth interviews with fourteen volunteers illustrate the considerable rewards of volunteering, especially in terms of personal status and identity. The common rewards of volunteering and employment challenge the traditional dichotomy between paid and unpaid work. However, the experience of volunteering is cont…
Social Inclusion through Volunteering
Considerations of Olympic Games' legacies have focused on economic benefits, with little consideration given to the potential legacy from the substantial number of volunteers involved. This article examines the experiences of volunteers in a programme established as a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Its results challenge the dominant social inclusion discourse in showing that volunteering provides social inclusion benefits beyond employabi…
Sport and Crime Reduction
The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to the prevention of re-offending in the ten to eighteen age bracket. However, until now there has been no definitive and rigorous analysis of the rationale behind these programmes, and evidence of their successes and failures has been piecemeal, uncritical and without standardization. This book a…
Social capital
edited by Vina Ona Bartkus and James H. Davis, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009, 356 pp., £95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84720 072 3 As the editors note in the introduction to this compilation, ‘social c
Understanding the Management of Sports Events Volunteers Through Psychological Contract Theory
This paper juxtaposes the expectations of event managers and sports event volunteers in a case study organisation. These are understood within the theoretical framework of the psychological contract. Results show the distinctive contribution volunteers can make to events but also the distinctive challenges they present to event managers. For event managers, volunteers bring: enthusiasm, a good relationship and empathy with the public, and they pr…
Stalwarts in Sport
This paper reports further analysis of an Omnibus Survey of volunteering in sport, conducted in 2002 for Sport England (Taylor, et al. 2003). From this survey of over 8000 individuals it has been possible to identify those who both volunteer in sports clubs organised by their members, and contribute over 300 hours a year to volunteering in sport. Analysis of the sex, age, education, work status and motivation of these volunteers shows that the on…
Pressures on the UK Voluntary Sport Sector
This paper uses research from two projects, conducted for Sport England and for the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR), to analyze pressures on volunteers in sport in the United Kingdom (UK). Both research projects were contract research, conducted to inform policy and therefore were not designed to build on theoretical insights. However, from the results the research developed an understanding of the interrelated pressures on the volu…
Measuring the Impact of Crime Reduction Interventions Involving Sports Activities for Young People
This article considers the complexity of measuring the impact on crime reduction of different types of intervention with young people, which use the medium of sports activity. It draws on the authors' experience of sports‐related programmes. Interventions are categorised using a combination of Brantingham and Faust's (1976) categorisation of programmes as primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention and the mechanism by which the intervention is li…
Crime and punishment and sports development
This paper contributes to understandings of the use of sport as a medium in crime reduction programmes directed at young people. It does this through a case study of Easttown SummitFootnote1, to show how and why this programme has had an impact on participants. The case study examines the relevance of a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanism of crime reduction though value directed personal development. However, this framework was …
Pressures on Sports Volunteers Arising from Partnerships with the Central Government
This paper uses results of two research projects investigating the pressures on volunteers in UK sport to illustrate the implications of partnerships between national governing bodies of sport and the central government. National governing bodies of sport receive funding from the central government via Sport England and UK Sport. This funding has conditions attached. The conditions will affect volunteers at the national level of the NGB, but will…
Pressures on the UK Voluntary Sport Sector
This paper uses research from two projects, conducted for Sport England and for the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR), to analyze pressures on volunteers in sport in the United Kingdom (UK). Both research projects were contract research, conducted to inform policy and therefore were not designed to build on theoretical insights. However, from the results the research developed an understanding of the interrelated pressures on the volu…
The Psychological Contract of Volunteers
This paper considers the ways in which research into the psychological contract of volunteers have been constrained by the direct transfer of measures from the study of employees, and more generally by the assumptions in the dominant psychological contract discourse. After examining these assumptions the paper proposes a revised research agenda, open to the possibility that the psychological contract of volunteers is affected by expectations aris…
Localism and the Big Society
This paper critically examines the ‘asset transfer’ of leisure services from the public to the voluntary sector. Asset transfer might be theorised as ‘austerity localism’, in which volunteers are obliged to fill the gaps left by retreating public provision, or as ‘progressive localism’, which represents new opportunities through the localism and Big Society agendas to develop more locally responsive, cooperative and mutualist visions. In this way…
Understanding the Management of Sports Events Volunteers Through Psychological Contract Theory
This paper juxtaposes the expectations of event managers and sports event volunteers in a case study organisation. These are understood within the theoretical framework of the psychological contract. Results show the distinctive contribution volunteers can make to events but also the distinctive challenges they present to event managers. For event managers, volunteers bring: enthusiasm, a good relationship and empathy with the public, and they pr…
Sports Clubs' Volunteers
The aim of this study is to re-evaluate the nature of bonding and bridging social capital in sports clubs. Exploratory research involving interviews with club volunteers reveals that shared values and norms of commitment to the sport or the club are an important dimension of homophilic and heterophilic ties. These are expressed in the recruitment of new volunteers and explain the reluctance to recruit from outside the club. While 'sameness' and '…
Social Inclusion through Volunteering
Considerations of Olympic Games' legacies have focused on economic benefits, with little consideration given to the potential legacy from the substantial number of volunteers involved. This article examines the experiences of volunteers in a programme established as a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Its results challenge the dominant social inclusion discourse in showing that volunteering provides social inclusion benefits beyond employabi…
A Consideration of Why Active Participation in Sport and Leisure Might Reduce Criminal Behaviour
Programmes that seek to reduce criminal behaviour amongst young people through the medium of sports activities have been both criticised and advocated. The arguments used have drawn more on value judgements than on evidence. This article identifies the difficulties of producing such evidence, and relates these to the lack of a well developed rationale for such programmes. It reviews some of the evidence that contributes to such a rationale, inclu…
Lessons from the Volunteering Legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Potential exists for a more multifaceted and interrelated volunteering legacy from mega sporting events than has been recognised by previous research, including not only the continuation and development of volunteering activity, but also the contribution that activity makes to the social inclusion of volunteers, the economic contribution to the development of events in the region, the development of a skilled volunteer workforce and raising the s…
Volunteering and Income Inequality
Wilkinson and Pickett, in their 2009 book The Spirit Level , found that, in rich countries, income inequality was negatively associated with a range of indicators of well-being, but they did not consider the relationship with volunteering. This paper seeks to fill that gap. Using existing data sources, it shows that, among European countries, higher levels of volunteering are associated with lower levels of income inequality. The relationship is …
Pressures on Sports Volunteers Arising from Partnerships with the Central Government
This paper uses results of two research projects investigating the pressures on volunteers in UK sport to illustrate the implications of partnerships between national governing bodies of sport and the central government. National governing bodies of sport receive funding from the central government via Sport England and UK Sport. This funding has conditions attached. The conditions will affect volunteers at the national level of the NGB, but will…
The Rewards of Individual Engagement in Volunteering
This paper examines the experience of volunteering in relation to the latent functions of paid work identified by social psychologists. In-depth interviews with fourteen volunteers illustrate the considerable rewards of volunteering, especially in terms of personal status and identity. The common rewards of volunteering and employment challenge the traditional dichotomy between paid and unpaid work. However, the experience of volunteering is cont…
Redefining the Recruitment Niche for the Guide Association in the United Kingdom
This article shows how the concept of a recruitment niche can be valuable in understanding the difficulties the Guide Association in the United Kingdom has in recruiting new volunteers. Understanding Guiding as career volunteering, within serious leisure, shows how the distinctive ethos of the existing volunteers contributes to the social construction of the recruitment niche. The defining boundaries of the niche restrict the ability to recruit n…
Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs
Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective eva…
The legacy costs of delivering the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games through regulatory capitalism
The governance structure of the 2012 Olympic Games illustrates characteristics of ‘regulatory capitalism’ in which government awards an initial contract to deliver a project to a private-sector umbrella organisation. To deliver the 2012 Games, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is estimated to have awarded over 75,000 (sub)contracts to private companies. The government’s ability to make political interven…
Stalwarts in Sport
This paper reports further analysis of an Omnibus Survey of volunteering in sport, conducted in 2002 for Sport England (Taylor, et al. 2003). From this survey of over 8000 individuals it has been possible to identify those who both volunteer in sports clubs organised by their members, and contribute over 300 hours a year to volunteering in sport. Analysis of the sex, age, education, work status and motivation of these volunteers shows that the on…
Crime and punishment and sports development
This paper contributes to understandings of the use of sport as a medium in crime reduction programmes directed at young people. It does this through a case study of Easttown SummitFootnote1, to show how and why this programme has had an impact on participants. The case study examines the relevance of a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanism of crime reduction though value directed personal development. However, this framework was …
The Full Sporty—the impact of a sports training programme for unemployed steelworkers
This article examines the impact of a fifteen-month job training programme for ex-steel workers and their families: ‘The Full Sporty’. The programme aimed to enhance participants' employability in the sport and leisure industries in Sheffield. It therefore included considerable participation in sport, as well as training in sports leadership. However, while TFS was essentially a job training programme, the focus of this research was on the extent…
The impact on local authority leisure provision of compulsory competitive tendering, financial cuts and changing attitudes
Avaliação Da Compreensão Em Libras Por Alunos Surdos
Com base em uma experiência de pesquisa realizada na Universidade de Barcelona, Espanha optamos por criar também no Brasil um instrumento que contribuísse com as práticas pedagógicas apoiando o professor no que concerne às avaliações da compreensão de seus alunos surdos em Libras. Com este objetivo, foi elaborado um vídeo com a enunciação, em Libras, de uma fábula, e um elenco de 15 perguntas relativas à esta, resultando em duas versões do instru…
Social capital
edited by Vina Ona Bartkus and James H. Davis, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009, 356 pp., £95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84720 072 3 As the editors note in the introduction to this compilation, ‘social c
Risk and adventure education
This article considers several research questions concerning adventure education and risk. These are: 'What is the role and nature of risk in adventure education?' 'Is the outcome of adventure education to encourage participants to take a more adventurous approach to life in general, or is it limited to introducing them to socially acceptable forms of risk-taking?' 'Is the scope of adventure education to use risks being reduced?' 'If it is, is th…
Is Risk a Valuable Component of Outdoor Adventure Programmes for Young Offenders Undergoing Drug Rehabilitation
A theoretical understanding of the process by which programmes that seek to achieve personal growth of young people through adventure has provided a rationale for the use of activities where participants experience perceived risk. However, it has been argued that young people are already confronted by an increasing range of risks in their daily lives and, paradoxically, some adventure programmes are directed towards young offenders who already fa…
Local authorities' role in distributing the lottery to sport
As local authorities' budgets for recreation have been reduced, the National Lottery represents a new source of capital funding. But lottery applications, whether from local authorities directly or from voluntary sports clubs in their areas, must meet the Sports Council criteria. Thus the allocation of lottery money is not as directly under local authorities' control as was allocation of their own budget. This paper explores how, through selectiv…
Contract specification in leisure management
The impact on local authority leisure provision of compulsory competitive tendering, financial cuts and changing attitudes
Contract specification in leisure management
The Impact of Compulsory Competitive Tendering on Planning in Leisure Departments
In the UK compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) for the management of local authority leisure services was implemented in 1992. The rationale underlying the introduction of CCT was that the creation of a market for the provision of services would result in economies as a consequence of competition. The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on planning in leisure services is analysed through interviews with 12 local government client officer…
A Consideration of Why Active Participation in Sport and Leisure Might Reduce Criminal Behaviour
Programmes that seek to reduce criminal behaviour amongst young people through the medium of sports activities have been both criticised and advocated. The arguments used have drawn more on value judgements than on evidence. This article identifies the difficulties of producing such evidence, and relates these to the lack of a well developed rationale for such programmes. It reviews some of the evidence that contributes to such a rationale, inclu…
Developing a Rationale for Sports Counselling Projects
West Yorkshire Sports Counselling (WYSC) offered probation service clients a twelve‐week programme of sports activities as a medium for counselling, with the objective of reducing offending behaviour. Through an evaluation of West Yorkshire Sports Counselling this article contributes to an understanding of how such projects might work to reduce crime. In the past such projects have been characterised by both poorly developed rationales and poor e…
Is Risk a Valuable Component of Outdoor Adventure Programmes for Young Offenders Undergoing Drug Rehabilitation
A theoretical understanding of the process by which programmes that seek to achieve personal growth of young people through adventure has provided a rationale for the use of activities where participants experience perceived risk. However, it has been argued that young people are already confronted by an increasing range of risks in their daily lives and, paradoxically, some adventure programmes are directed towards young offenders who already fa…
Redefining the Recruitment Niche for the Guide Association in the United Kingdom
This article shows how the concept of a recruitment niche can be valuable in understanding the difficulties the Guide Association in the United Kingdom has in recruiting new volunteers. Understanding Guiding as career volunteering, within serious leisure, shows how the distinctive ethos of the existing volunteers contributes to the social construction of the recruitment niche. The defining boundaries of the niche restrict the ability to recruit n…
Local authorities' role in distributing the lottery to sport
As local authorities' budgets for recreation have been reduced, the National Lottery represents a new source of capital funding. But lottery applications, whether from local authorities directly or from voluntary sports clubs in their areas, must meet the Sports Council criteria. Thus the allocation of lottery money is not as directly under local authorities' control as was allocation of their own budget. This paper explores how, through selectiv…
Risk and adventure education
This article considers several research questions concerning adventure education and risk. These are: 'What is the role and nature of risk in adventure education?' 'Is the outcome of adventure education to encourage participants to take a more adventurous approach to life in general, or is it limited to introducing them to socially acceptable forms of risk-taking?' 'Is the scope of adventure education to use risks being reduced?' 'If it is, is th…
The Full Sporty—the impact of a sports training programme for unemployed steelworkers
This article examines the impact of a fifteen-month job training programme for ex-steel workers and their families: ‘The Full Sporty’. The programme aimed to enhance participants' employability in the sport and leisure industries in Sheffield. It therefore included considerable participation in sport, as well as training in sports leadership. However, while TFS was essentially a job training programme, the focus of this research was on the extent…
Pressures on Sports Volunteers Arising from Partnerships with the Central Government
This paper uses results of two research projects investigating the pressures on volunteers in UK sport to illustrate the implications of partnerships between national governing bodies of sport and the central government. National governing bodies of sport receive funding from the central government via Sport England and UK Sport. This funding has conditions attached. The conditions will affect volunteers at the national level of the NGB, but will…
Measuring the Impact of Crime Reduction Interventions Involving Sports Activities for Young People
This article considers the complexity of measuring the impact on crime reduction of different types of intervention with young people, which use the medium of sports activity. It draws on the authors' experience of sports‐related programmes. Interventions are categorised using a combination of Brantingham and Faust's (1976) categorisation of programmes as primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention and the mechanism by which the intervention is li…
Crime and punishment and sports development
This paper contributes to understandings of the use of sport as a medium in crime reduction programmes directed at young people. It does this through a case study of Easttown SummitFootnote1, to show how and why this programme has had an impact on participants. The case study examines the relevance of a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanism of crime reduction though value directed personal development. However, this framework was …
Stalwarts in Sport
This paper reports further analysis of an Omnibus Survey of volunteering in sport, conducted in 2002 for Sport England (Taylor, et al. 2003). From this survey of over 8000 individuals it has been possible to identify those who both volunteer in sports clubs organised by their members, and contribute over 300 hours a year to volunteering in sport. Analysis of the sex, age, education, work status and motivation of these volunteers shows that the on…
Pressures on the UK Voluntary Sport Sector
This paper uses research from two projects, conducted for Sport England and for the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR), to analyze pressures on volunteers in sport in the United Kingdom (UK). Both research projects were contract research, conducted to inform policy and therefore were not designed to build on theoretical insights. However, from the results the research developed an understanding of the interrelated pressures on the volu…
Understanding the Management of Sports Events Volunteers Through Psychological Contract Theory
This paper juxtaposes the expectations of event managers and sports event volunteers in a case study organisation. These are understood within the theoretical framework of the psychological contract. Results show the distinctive contribution volunteers can make to events but also the distinctive challenges they present to event managers. For event managers, volunteers bring: enthusiasm, a good relationship and empathy with the public, and they pr…
Sport and Crime Reduction
The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to the prevention of re-offending in the ten to eighteen age bracket. However, until now there has been no definitive and rigorous analysis of the rationale behind these programmes, and evidence of their successes and failures has been piecemeal, uncritical and without standardization. This book a…
Social capital
edited by Vina Ona Bartkus and James H. Davis, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009, 356 pp., £95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84720 072 3 As the editors note in the introduction to this compilation, ‘social c
Social Inclusion through Volunteering
Considerations of Olympic Games' legacies have focused on economic benefits, with little consideration given to the potential legacy from the substantial number of volunteers involved. This article examines the experiences of volunteers in a programme established as a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Its results challenge the dominant social inclusion discourse in showing that volunteering provides social inclusion benefits beyond employabi…
The Psychological Contract of Volunteers
This paper considers the ways in which research into the psychological contract of volunteers have been constrained by the direct transfer of measures from the study of employees, and more generally by the assumptions in the dominant psychological contract discourse. After examining these assumptions the paper proposes a revised research agenda, open to the possibility that the psychological contract of volunteers is affected by expectations aris…
Olympic Cities
Lessons from the Volunteering Legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Potential exists for a more multifaceted and interrelated volunteering legacy from mega sporting events than has been recognised by previous research, including not only the continuation and development of volunteering activity, but also the contribution that activity makes to the social inclusion of volunteers, the economic contribution to the development of events in the region, the development of a skilled volunteer workforce and raising the s…
The Rewards of Individual Engagement in Volunteering
This paper examines the experience of volunteering in relation to the latent functions of paid work identified by social psychologists. In-depth interviews with fourteen volunteers illustrate the considerable rewards of volunteering, especially in terms of personal status and identity. The common rewards of volunteering and employment challenge the traditional dichotomy between paid and unpaid work. However, the experience of volunteering is cont…
Sports Clubs' Volunteers
The aim of this study is to re-evaluate the nature of bonding and bridging social capital in sports clubs. Exploratory research involving interviews with club volunteers reveals that shared values and norms of commitment to the sport or the club are an important dimension of homophilic and heterophilic ties. These are expressed in the recruitment of new volunteers and explain the reluctance to recruit from outside the club. While 'sameness' and '…
Global sports policy
Globalisation is a difficult topic to write about and relate to sports policy because it is both a process and a state that is being moved towards. It has economic, political, cultural and ecologic
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