All manuscripts must focus on elite athletes navigating the emerging adulthood developmental period and address the unique setting of athletic careers in which EA athletes are nested. Athletes competing at high levels of sport, including but not limited to premier or major professional leagues, professional developmental and minor leagues, and collegiate/quasi-professional athletics, are the primary focus of this Special Issue. Recreational, intramural, or lower-intensity sport contexts fall outside the scope of this Special Issue and will not be considered.

Hosted by Leeds Business School and the Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society, the symposium is designed to move beyond identifying these inequalities and instead focus on how organisations can respond in practice. The day will bring together practitioners, governing bodies, advocacy organisations and researchers to explore how evidence-led approaches can support more inclusive organisational change. A keynote address will be delivered by Disability Sport Wales, whose work continues to shape thinking around inclusive leadership and governance across sport.

In this session David Meir and Kirsty Mackay will collaboratively outline previous and current policy approaches to reducing physical inactivity. David will share his research findings from his recent Scottish Parliament Fellowship that explored barriers and potential policy solutions to physical inactivity. David will also present recent research findings regarding intersectional inequalities, developing inclusive environments, implementing a systems-based approach to policy enactment and analysing policy through different frameworks e.g., the sociology of luck.