Tag: CfP Online course

The Sports Equity Lab is hosting a Winter School on Women’s Empowerment in Sports, taking place online via Zoom from December 14–18, 2026. We would be grateful if you could share this opportunity with your students and colleagues. Our Winter School is a one-week intensive online program that examines gender equity in sport through the eyes of the people who shape it: athletes, governing bodies, researchers, and the sports industry. Over five days and fifteen sessions, participants move from athletes’ lived experiences through policy, science, and commerce.

This online short-course will explore how religious practice intersects and overlaps with the beautiful game. We will use both a historical framework to highlight the longevity and intricacies of this relationship, and an approach that posits football as an analytical window for examining broader geopolitical and social forces. In particular, we will examine whether football can be viewed as a vehicle for the socio-political integration of marginalised groups into wider society, and the extent to which religious belonging is a facilitator or obstacle for any tensions that arise.