This project preceded the founding of CSPS, but the Centre has picked up the work that deals primarily with the human rights and treatment of children in sport, especially high performance sport.

Funding

Funding for the project came from Rosenstadt and Connaught funds.

Conferences Organized

UN Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children – North American Regional Consultation (CSPS was invited to organize the consultation session on Violence Against Children in Sport) University of Toronto, June 2-3, 2005

Talented Children in Sport, Music and Dance: How can we nurture talent without exploiting or abusing children? (Third Annual Colloquium of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies) University of Toronto, September 27-29, 2001

Reports

The Violence Against Children in Sport roundtable, part of the UN Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children – North American Regional Consultation, produced a series of recommendations. The UN’s final report may be seen here.

Presentations

Mazzucco, M., Kerr, G., & Donnelly, P. (2007, May 30). Enforcing children’s rights in Canadian sport. Paper presented at Children’s Sport and Physical Activity: Philosophical Dimensions, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2007, February 23). Sport, child labour, and child trafficking. Invited lecture presented at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, UK.

Donnelly, P. (2006, February 13). Trafficking child athletes. Invited lecture presented at the Norwegian Sport University, Oslo, NORWAY.

Donnelly, P. (2005, September 19). Child labour, sport labour. Invited lecture presented in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2005, June 1-3). Violence against children in sport. UNICEF Regional Conference on Violence Against Children, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2005, March 26). Sport and three forms of child labour. Invited lecture presented at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, JAPAN.

Donnelly, P. (2003, June 19). Marching out of step: Sport, social order, and the case of child labour. Keynote address delivered at the 2nd World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Köln, GERMANY.

Donnelly, P. (2002, August 1). "...a tale which holdeth children from play": Exploring negative consequences at both extremes of the physical activity spectrum. Keynote address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine, Lansing, MI.

Donnelly, P. (1999, June 2-5). Sociological and ethical issues of children in competitive sport. Child advocacy in competitive sport: The good, the bad and the ideal, special event held at American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Publications

Donnelly, P. (2006). Who’s fair game?: Sport, sexual harassment and abuse. In P. White & K. Young (Eds.). Sport and gender in Canada (2nd Edition, pp. 279-301). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Donnelly, P., & Petherick, L. (2006). Workers’ playtime?: Child labour at the extremes of the sporting spectrum. In D. McArdle & R. Giulianotti (Eds.), Sport, civil liberties and human rights (pp. 9-29). London: Routledge.

Donnelly, P., & Petherick, L. (2004). Workers’ playtime?: Child labour at the extremes of the sporting spectrum. Sport in Society, 7(3), 301-321.

Donnelly, P. (2000). Youth sport in Canada: Problems and resolutions. In K. Armour & R. Jones (Eds.), The sociology of sport in practice (pp. 167-186). Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Donnelly, P. (1999). Who’s fair game?: Sexual harassment and sexual abuse in sport. In P. White & K. Young (Eds.), Sport and gender in Canada (pp. 107-128). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Donnelly, P. (1997). Child labour, sport labour: Applying child labour laws to sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 32(4), 389-406.

Donnelly, P., & Sparks, R. (1997). Child sexual abuse in sport. Policy Options, 18(3), 3-6.

The rights of athletes in Canada include language rights – the right to be heard and understood in the official language of one’s choice. Francophone athletes in Canada have often had the double burden of attempting to achieve the skills needed to be selected to a representative national team and to learn a second language because coaching and other services were not available in French.


Funding

Research grant/contract: Sport Canada/TNS Canadian Facts Social Policy Research, 2004-05 ($60,000)

To carry out study of Linguistic Barriers to Access to High Performance Sport

Principal Investigator: M. Svoboda (EKOS Research Associates)

Research grant: Privy Council/Sport Canada, Government of Canada, 1998-99 ($9,000)

Patterns of Association: Bilingualism in Civil Society – Sport.

Principal Investigator: Bruce Kidd

Reports

Svoboda, M., & Donnelly, P. (2005). Linguistic barriers to access to high performance sport. Ottawa, ON: Heritage Canada. [English version] [French version]

Donnelly, P., Kidd, B., Harvey, J., Laberge, S., & Rail, G. (2001). Plus a change. . .: Patterns of association in Canadian Sport, II – the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU). Report for the Privy Council initiated and Sport Canada funded project, “Patterns of Association in Canadian Civil Society: Linguistic Relations in Non-Governmental Organizations”. Toronto, ON: Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto.

Donnelly, P., Kidd, B., Harvey, J., Laberge, S., & Rail, G. (2001). Plus a change. . .: Patterns of Association in Canadian Hockey. Report for the Privy Council initiated and Sport Canada funded project, “Patterns of Association in Canadian Civil Society: Linguistic Relations in Non-Governmental Organizations”. Toronto, ON: Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto.

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2000, May 10-11). Sport and bilingualism. Patterns of Association conference, Ottawa, ON.

Publications

Coakley, J. & Donnelly, P. (2009). Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (2nd Canadian Edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

Coakley, J. & Donnelly, P. (2003). Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (1st Canadian Edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

[Both editions include a boxed section on “Sport and Bilingualism”]

Olympic athletes are often used by corporate sponsors and national governments as representatives of particular ideas associated with corporate brands and certain aspects of nationalism. This study, based around the 2000 Sydney Olympics, explores issues of Canadian identity and mediated representation. The research reveals a number of ways in which an athlete’s right to freedom of speech is stifled in these circumstances.

Funding

Research grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1999-2002 ($123,900)

Competing for Canada: National Identity and the Contested Relationship Between Olympic Athletes, Associations, Sponsors, and the CBC

Principal Investigator: Margaret MacNeill

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (with Cluer, S., Skelton, C., MacNeill. M., & Knight, G.). (2004, March 25). It’s not rocket science: The last word on media marginalization and trivialization of women’s sports. Public lecture given as part of the Gender, Sport and Mass Media series at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK.

Donnelly, P., MacNeill, M., & Knight, G. (2001, October 31-November 3). Branding as Canadian: Canadian Identity Issues Around the 2000 Sydney Olympics. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Cluer, S., Donnelly, P., MacNeill, M., & Knight, G. (2001, October 31-November 3). Lessons Learned: A Case Study of CBC Coverage of Men’s and Women’s Diving at the Sydney Olympics. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Greenberg, J., Knight, G., MacNeill, M. & Donnelly, P. (2001, May). News Media, Broadcast Regulations and the 2000 Sydney Olympics: Investigating the 'Negotiated Order' Perspective. Paper presented at the 18th Qualitative Analysis Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.

MacNeill, M., Donnelly, P., & Knight, G. (2000, September). Contested Nationalisms: Canadian Athlete-Media-Sponsor Relations and Preparations for the Sydney Olympic Games. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium for Olympic Research, Sydney, AUSTRALIA.

Publications

Donnelly, P., MacNeill, M., & Knight, G. (in press). Enough already!: A comment on media research on gender representation. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

Knight, G., Neverson, N., MacNeill, M., and Donnelly, P. (2007). The weight of expectation: Cathy Freeman, legacy, reconciliation and the Sydney Olympics – A Canadian perspective. International Journal of the History of Sport, 24 (10), 1243-1263.

Greenberg, J., Knight, G., Donnelly, P., & MacNeill, M. (2005). Negotiating news: Structural constraints and strategic inaction in television coverage of the Olympics. In D. Pawluch, W. Shaffir, & C. Miall (Eds.), Doing ethnography: Researching everyday life (pp. 288-299). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Knight, G., MacNeill, M., & Donnelly, P. (2005). The disappointment games: Narratives of Olympic failure in Canada and New Zealand. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 40(1), 25-51.

MacNeill, M., Donnelly, P. & Knight, G. (2001). Contested nationalisms: Canadian athlete-media-sponsor relations and preparations for the Sydney Olympic Games. In K.B. Wamsley, S.G. Martyn, G. H. MacDonald, & R.K. Barney (Eds.), Bridging three centuries: Intellectual crossroads and the modern Olympic movement: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium for Olympic Research (pp. 17-28).

MacNeill, M., Donnelly, P., & Knight, G. (2001). Corporate training: Identity construction, preparation for the Sydney Olympic Games, and relationships between Canadian media, swimmers and sponsors. Olympika, 10, 1-24. [Article]

MacNeill, M., Donnelly, P. & Knight, G. (2000, October 18). Competing for Canada: Canadian Academics at the Sydney Olympics. M/C Reviews. [Link]

MacNeill, M., Donnelly, P., & Knight, G. (2000). Competing identities: Canadian athletics and media preparations for the 2000 Summer Olympics. International Olympic Studies Symposium Proceedings. Sydney: University of New South Wales and International Centre for Olympic Studies.

Concern about risk taking in sport and the health and safety of athletes has been ongoing, and has produced a significant body of research in the social sciences of sport. CSPS has been engaged in this work in a number of ways as part of its mandate to encourage healthy high performance.

Funding

Funding for this project came from Rosenstadt funds.

Conferences organized

The Politics of Obesity: A Symposium about Research, Policy and Interventions. University of Toronto, September 7-8, 2004 (co-organized by with the Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Health and Physical Activity).

Paradoxes of Illness and Fitness – Fourth Annual Colloquium of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies.

University of Toronto, June 26, 2003 (co-organized with Health Studies Programme at McMaster University).

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2007, November 11). The sport ethic: The social context of risky behaviour. Think First/Pensez d’Abord Summit on Head Protection, Toronto ON.

Safai, P., & Donnelly, P. (2006, November 1-4). Expect the unexpected: Selling safety. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Donnelly, P. (2006, November 1-4). Medicine, Health and the Sport Community: Risk Discourses (panel discussant). North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Donnelly, P. (2004, September 7-8). Participation, activity levels, and a ‘healthy lifestyle’: The complex relationship between physical activity and weight. The Politics of Obesity: A Symposium About Research, Policy and Interventions, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P., & Young, K. (2004, August 9). Sport violence and the culture of control. Symposium on Sports Violence, Olympic Scientific Congress, Thessaloniki, GREECE.

Donnelly, P. (2001, October 18). The Cycle of Violence in Youth and Varsity Sport. Presented at The Michael Smith Seminars on Violence and Sport All-Day Roundtable: Good Play: Reducing Violence in Sport, York University, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2000, November 10). Sticking my neck out: Taking risks in the sociology of sport. Presidential Address at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, CO.

Donnelly, P. (2000, March 14). Risk taking in sport: Theoretical approaches. Public lecture given at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC.

Publications

Donnelly, P. (2004). Sport and risk culture. In K. Young (Ed.), Sporting Bodies, Damaged Selves: Sociological Studies of Sports-Related Injury (pp. 29-57). London: Elsevier.

Donnelly, P. (1999). Gulliver’s travels: A sport sociologist among the labcoats. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 23(4), 455-458.

Related to the larger interest in health high performance, this specific project dealt with concussion safety in minor hockey, and was triggered by the reluctance of many minor hockey coaches to expose their players to a concussion safety education video.

Funding

Research grant: Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, 2002-03 ($75,092)

A study titled Winning at all costs: Barriers to injury prevention knowledge transfer in minor league hockey in Canada

Principal Investigator: Michael Cusimano

Reports

Cusimano, M., Chipman, M., Donnelly, P., Tator, C., Volpe, R. (2004). Final Report: Winning at all costs: Barriers to injury prevention knowledge transfer in minor league hockey in Canada. Toronto: Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.

Presentations

Cusimano, M., Doyle, A., Hyland, T., Donnelly, P., Chipman, M., Tator, C., & Volpe, R. (2004, June). Knowledge about concussion in Canadian minor league hockey players. 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Vienna, AUSTRIA.

Cusimano, M., Doyle, A., Hyland, T., Donnelly, P., Chipman, M., Tator, C., & Volpe, R. (2004, June). Aggression in Canadian minor league hockey. 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Vienna, AUSTRIA.

Cusimano, M., Doyle, A., Hyland, T., Donnelly, P., Chipman, M., Tator, C., & Volpe, R. (2003, November). Aggression in Canadian minor league hockey. Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Cusimano, M., Doyle, A., Hyland, T., Donnelly, P., Chipman, M., Tator, C., & Volpe, R. (2003, November). Knowledge about concussion in Canadian minor league hockey players. Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Cook, D., Doyle, A., Cusimano, M., Tator, C., Mansfield, E., Chipman, M., Donnelly, P., & Volpe, R. (2003, January). Smart Hockey: Can a multimedia educational tool influence knowledge and behaviour in hockey? Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation Inaugural Provincial Conference, Toronto, ON.

Publications

Cusimano, M., Chipman, M., Volpe, R., & Donnelly,P. (2009). Canadian minor hockey participants’ knowledge about concussion. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 36(3), 315-320.

A basic step towards healthy high performance sport involves principled governance of high performance sport. The Centre has an interest in encouraging governance reform at the highest levels of sport, which includes the Olympics.

Funding

Funding for this project came from Rosenstadt and CSPS funds.

Conferences Organized

Olympic Reform – A Ten-Year Review, University of Toronto, May 18-20, 2009

The conference was organized to assess the state of IOC reform at the 10th anniversary of the Salt Lake City bidding scandals, and the subsequent IOC reform package; the conference brought together IOC members, scholars and investigative journalists to evaluate progress made in terms of transparency and principles of corporate good governance.

Presentations

Donnelly, P., & Kidd, B. (2009, October 28). Olympic reform after the Salt Lake City scandals: What's been achieved? What still remains to be done? Invited lecture presented at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Donnelly, P., & Kidd, B. (2006, December 11). Olympic reform. Invited lecture presented at the Centre for Olympic Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.

Donnelly, P. (2005, March 28). Plenary session on the Olympics: Comments on current status and future directions of Olympic reform. Japanese Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Tokyo, JAPAN.

Donnelly, P., & Kidd, B. (2004, August 8). The moral authority of the IOC: Steps for the future. Symposium on the Future of the Olympics, Olympic Scientific Congress, Thessaloniki, GREECE.

Donnelly, P. (1999, June 11-13). Ethics – the toll of mismanagement on the system (session moderator). OATH Symposium/Ignite the Democratic Flame. New York, NY.

Donnelly, P. (1998, October 3). Corporate globalization and the cults of competition and high performance: 1984 to the present (invited response to Varda Burstyn). 4th International Symposium on Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

Publications

Donnelly, P. & Kidd, B. (2006). Moral authority and the IOC: Steps for the future. Japan Journal of Sport Sociology, 12, 15-24.

The principles of social change are fundamental to studying social policy related to sport and advocating for social change in sport.

Funding

Conference organizing grant: SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Conferences, 2008 ($2,850)

CSPS funded

Conferences Organized

To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008. Toronto, May, 20-22, 2008

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2006, 1-4 November). State intervention and sport: Policy objectives (discussant in session). North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Donnelly, P. (2006, January 20). Sport and the culture of control. Policy Matters seminar, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2005, March 27). From what we know to what we can do: Critical sociology and progressive social change. Invited lecture presented at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, JAPAN.

Donnelly, P., & Houlihan, B. (2001, July 20-24). Sport and Policy Analysis: A Review and Evaluation. Presented at the 1st World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Seoul, KOREA.

Publications

Field, R. & Kidd, B. (Eds.). (2010). To remember is to resist: 40 years of sport and social change. London: Routledge.

Field, R. & Kidd, B. (Eds.). (2010). Sport in Society, 13(1). (Special issue containing the refereed proceedings of To Remember is to Resist)

Evaluation contract/grant: Canadian Heritage, 2001-02 ($30,000).

To carry out an evaluation of the federal government’s $40 million contribution to the 2001 World Championships in Athletics (sub-contract with SPR Associates, Toronto).

Publications

Donnelly, P., McCloy, C., & Field, R. (2002). Evaluation of the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Athletics (WCA) in Edmonton, Alberta. Ottawa: Canadian Heritage. [Report]

The intent of this project was to carry out a preliminary investigation of the extent of sport gambling among male student athletes in Ontario. The project was abandoned following a widespread reluctance among school boards contacted to permit their students to become involved in the study.

Funding

Research grant: Ontario Problem Gambling Research Council, 2001-02 ($179,250).

Principal Investigator: Peter Donnelly

Publications

Before its cancellation, this project resulted in an interim report on student gambling on sport.