Conference registration opens: February 2024
The purpose of the conference is to explore how children’s rights can be more deeply embedded into the everyday practices and lived experiences of children, young people and adults in sport and physical activity; to identify how children’s rights can be actively promoted within sport and physical activity; to share examples of good practice, reflections from projects and working reports from current initiatives; and to develop the relationship between research, policy and practice such that they inform each other and support a movement towards rights-based, rights-informed and rights-respecting practice becoming ‘normal’ practice.
Audience
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- People who directly support children and young people in sport and physical activity. This could be coaches, parents, volunteers, officials, carers, safeguarding officers, player care and welfare officers.
- People involved in researching, promoting and developing policies/strategies and programmes that support children’s rights in sport. This could be people from sports federations (national and international), activist organisations/networks, sports federations/agencies, charities, academics and researchers, the legal profession, Non-Governmental Organisations.
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We welcome oral contributions of up to 15 mins that are
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- reporting findings from original research;
- commentaries and thought pieces;
- reflections on professional practice;
- summaries from projects and other initiatives.
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Scope of interest
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- Economic exploitation and trafficking of children in sport.
- Promoting education about children’s rights in sport and physical activity.
- Developing a child-first rights-based approach to coaching and coach development.
- Rights in action – informing practice.
- Relationship between play and deliberate practice.
- Safeguarding and child protection.
- Providing children with the right to be heard and listened to and the impact of their voices.
- Children’s participation in sports-related research.
- Children’s rights and major sporting events.
- The legal status of children’s rights within sport and physical activity.
- The geography of children’s rights: spaces and places to play and participate.
- The philosophical foundations of children’s rights.
- Relationship between children’s rights and a child’s/young person’s self-identity.
- Experiences of LGBQT+ children and young people in sport.
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Abstract submission
For further information about the conference or to discuss a presentation/abstract, please contact Alex Twitchen at <alex.twitchen@open.ac.uk>.
