The origins of this project precede the founding of CSPS; but an interest in barriers, and how to overcome them, led indirectly to the formation of CSPS, and to the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at the University of Ottawa.

Funding

Active Living Canada/Fitness Branch, Health Canada, $14,500 (1996) to fund project on Systemic Barriers to Active Living: A Model

Principal Investigator: Peter Donnelly (with Jean Harvey)

Reports

Donnelly, P., & Harvey, J. (1996). Overcoming systemic barriers to access in active living. Discussion paper prepared for Fitness Branch, Health Canada and Active Living Canada.

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (1998, November 24). Invited panelist to UNESCO Expert Working Group Meeting on Sports and Gender Equality, Paris, FRANCE.

Donnelly, P., & Harvey, J. (1996, June 1). Overcoming systemic barriers to access in active living. Keynote address presented at the 7th Annual National Forum on Physical Activity and Disability, Halifax, NS.

Publications

Donnelly, P. (2008). Public vs. private sport spaces. In M. Atkinson (Ed.), Battleground: Sports (pp. 326-331). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Donnelly, P., & Harvey, J. (2006). Social class and gender: Intersections in sport and physical activity. In P. White & K. Young (Eds.), Sport and gender in Canada (2nd Edition, pp. 95-119). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Donnelly, P., & Harvey, J. (1999). Class and gender: Intersections in sport and physical activity.” In P. White & K. Young (Eds.), Sport and gender in Canada (pp. 40-64). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Harvey, J., & P. Donnelly. (1997). L’accès à l’activité physique et au sport: Un impératif politique? Policy Options, 18(3), 19-21.

CSPS work on overcoming barriers to participation has proceeded mainly through the work of the Equity Committee in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. Following the groundbreaking report on Gender Equity published in the mid-1990s, the Equity Committee has outlined approaches to overcoming ethnocultural barriers to participation and has carried out groundbreaking work on disability access.

Funding

Research grant: Deputy Provost, University of Toronto, 1998-99 ($9,000)

Ethnocultural Initiatives Project: Barrier Free Use of the Athletics and Physical Education Centre

Principal Investigator: Kristine Drakich

Reports

Safai, P., & Donnelly, P. (2004). Equity issues committee recommendations report (Joint Committee of the Faculty Council and the Council of Athletics and Recreation). Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Gajardo, L., & Safai, P. (1999). Ethnocultural academic initiatives project: Final report. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Related to the barriers and social inclusion themes, CSPS is engaged in ongoing work to understand the ways in which sport and physical activity may be involved in social inclusion in an increasingly ethnoculturally diverse Canadian society.

Funding

Research grant/contract: Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism Canada and Sport Canada), 2005-06 ($52,015).

Sport and Multiculturalism: A Dialogue

Principal Investigator: Centre for Sport Policy Studies

Reports

Donnelly, P., & Nakamura, Y. (2006). Sport and multiculturalism: A dialogue: Final report. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Heritage.

Presentations

Donnelly, P., & Nakamura, Y. (2009, November). Multiculturalism and sport participation: The dynamics of social inclusion. Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2007, November). Multiculturalism and sport policy. Paper presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Donnelly, P. (2007, May 31). Tendances global et effets locaux: Le cas du sport et du multiculturalisme (translated and presented in absentia by J. Harvey and M. Donnelly). Keynote address presented at the conference of the Société de Sociologie du Sport de la Langue Française (3SLF), Valence, FRANCE.

Publications

Donnelly, P., Knight, G., & MacNeill, M. (2002). Only in Canada, eh!: Media, multiculturalism, and national identities at the 2002 World Cup. M/C Reviews, 16(June-July).

Work on social inclusion ranges from a widely used monograph looking at The Role of Recreation in Promoting Social Inclusion, to more recent work relating to youth violence in Toronto.

Funding

Research grant: Laidlaw Foundation, 2000 ($7,000).

Prepare working paper on the role of physical recreation in social inclusion.

Reports

Donnelly, P., & Coakley, J. (2002). The role of recreation in promoting social inclusion. Perspectives on Social Inclusion Working Paper Series. Toronto: Laidlaw Foundation.

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2005, March 26). Social opportunity or social control?: Ideas for the prevention of youth delinquency and violence. Invited lecture presented at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, JAPAN.

Donnelly, P. (2004, June 25). Recreation and youth development: What we know. Invited paper presented at From Enforcement and Prevention to Civic Engagement: Research Colloquium of Community Safety (Mayor’s Panel on Community Safety), University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2003, April 25). Recreation and social inclusion. Symposium on Youth Development through Recreation Services, Calgary, AB.

Donnelly, P. (2003, April 3). Social inclusion: Recreation for children with mental and developmental disabilities. Symposium on Recreation: The Best Prevention. Orangeville, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2003, March 20). The role of recreation in promoting social inclusion. Symposium on Perspectives on Social Inclusion (organized by the Laidlaw Foundation, the Community and Social Planning Council of Toronto, and the University of Toronto Canadian Studies Programme), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2001, December 5-7). Sport policy, citizenship, and social inclusion. National Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Donnelly, P. (2001, November 8-9). Sport, recreation and social inclusion. A New Way of Thinking?: Towards a Vision of Social Inclusion (Canadian Council on Social Development/Laidlaw Foundation Conference), Ottawa, ON.

Publications

Donnelly, P. (with Coakley, J.). (2004). Recreation and youth development: What we know. In, B. Kidd & J. Phillips (Eds.), From enforcement and prevention to civic engagement: Research on community safety (pp. 156-167). Toronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.

The new Canadian Sport Policy (2001) placed equal weight on grassroots participation and high performance sport. In order to develop its capacity to understand and increase grassroots participation in sport, Sport Canada became involved in implementing and funding a research programme run by two of the major research granting agencies in Canada (SSHRC and CIHR). CSPS and RCSCS were contracted to develop that research programme.

Funding

Contract: Sport Canada, 2004-05 ($24,672)

Organize and run research Round Table to determine form and structure of Sport Canada Research Grant Programme (jointly held with the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, University of Ottawa).

Contract: Sport Canada, 2006-07 ($32,000)

Carry out work to implement and continue the Sport Canada Sport Participation Research Programme, and organize the inaugural conference.

Principal investigator: Peter Donnelly (with Bruce Kidd and Jean Harvey)

Contract: Sport Canada, 2007-08

Contract: Sport Canada, 2008-09

Conferences organized

3rd annual conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative (co-organized with Sport Canada and RCSCS), Ottawa, ON, November 4, 2009.

[Conference brought together grant holders to give progress reports on their research, and Sport Canada staff.]

2nd annual conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative (co-organized with Sport Canada and RCSCS), Gatineau, QC, November 19-21, 2008.

[Conference brought together grant holders to give progress reports on their research, and Sport Canada staff.]

Inaugural conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative (co-organized with Sport Canada and RCSCS), Gatineau, QC, November 22-23, 2007.

[Conference brought together grant holders to give progress reports on their research, and Sport Canada staff.]

Sport Canada Participation Research Programme conference (co-organized with the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society), Gatineau, QC, November 28-30, 2004.

[This conference brought together Canada wide sport research representatives with Sport Canada and the granting councils in order to plan the form of the Sport Canada Research Initiative]

Reports

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., Kidd, B. & Thibault, L. (2009). Sport Canada Research Initiative: Final report. Sport Canada, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, & Brock University.

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., Kay, J., & Kidd, B. (2008). Sport Canada Policy Research Initiative: Final report. Sport Canada, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, & Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society.

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., & Kidd, B. (2005). Development of the Sport Canada Policy Research Programme: Final report. Sport Canada, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, & Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society.

Lack of accurate data regarding sport participation in Canada causes great difficulties for formulating and evaluating participation policy. This project involves an evaluation of current measures, and will propose a more valid system of measuring sport participation.

Funding

Research grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006-09 ($101,691).

Carry out a research project entitled Sport participation in Canada: Evaluating measurements and testing determinants of increased participation.

Principal Investigator: Peter Donnelly (with Jean Harvey, Bruce Kidd, Margaret MacNeill, Barry Houlihan, and Kristine Toohey)

Presentations

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., Kidd, B., & MacNeill, M. (2009, November 4). Measuring sport participation. Paper presented at the 3rd annual conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative, Ottawa, ON.

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., Kidd, B., & MacNeill, M. (2007, November). Measuring sport participation. Paper presented at the 1st annual conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative, Ottawa, ON and Gatineau, QC.

Publications

Donnelly, P. with Kidd, B., Harvey, J., MacNeill, M., Houlihan, B., & Toohey, K. (2008). Opportunity knocks!: Increasing sport participation in Canada as a result of success at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Position paper distributed to Sport Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee. Toronto: Centre for Sport Policy Studies.

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., Kidd, B., MacNeill, M., Houlihan, B., & Toohey, K. (2007). Measuring sport participation. Proceedings of the 1st annual conference of the Sport Canada Research Initiative, Ottawa, ON.

Sport for development and peace (SDP) is increasingly being recognized as a new social movement, one that is growing rapidly. Because of Bruce Kidd’s involvement in SDP since the early stages of its current manifestation, CSPS has been involved in critical research in this field; Bruce Kidd and Peter Donnelly teach one of the first undergraduate courses on SDP.

Funding

Research grant/contract: International Working Group, Sport for Development and Peace/Right to Play, 2007 ($61,000)

Produce five literature reviews on sport for development and peace.

Principal Investigator: Bruce Kidd (co-investigators: Peter Donnelly, June Larkin, Penny Parnes, and David Zakus)

Reports

B.Kidd & P. Donnelly (Eds.). (2007). The Benefits of Sport in International Development: Five Literature Reviews. Geneva: Switzerland: International Working Group for Sport, Development and Peace.

This publication consisted of five separate literature reviews on various aspects of Sport for Development and Peace. The five reviews are:

Donnelly, P. with Darnell, S., Wells S. & Coakley, J. (2007). The use of sport to foster child and youth development and education, (pp. 7-47).

Kidd, B., with MacDonnell, M. (2007). Peace, sport and development, (pp. 158-195).

Larkin, J., with Razack, S. & Moola, F. (2007). Gender, sport and development, (pp. 89-123).

Parnes, P., with Hashemi, G. (2007). Sport as a means to foster inclusion, health and well-being of people living with disabilities, (pp. 124-157).

Zakus, D., with Njelesani, D. & Darnell, S. (2007). The use of sport and physical activity to achieve health objectives, (pp. 48-88).

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2007, November 10). Sport, development and peace. World Congress of the World Association of Non-Government Organizations, Toronto, ON.

Publications

Kidd, B. (2008). A new social movement: Sport for development and peace. Sport in Society, 11(4), 370-380.

Canadian sport, at every level except professional, thrives on volunteer labour. However, despite widespread research on volunteerism in other sectors of Canadian society, there is very little research on sport volunteerism. CSPS has partnered with RCSCS in order to increase our understanding of sport volunteerism.

Funding

Research grant: Sport Canada, 2003-05 ($45,000)

Carry out a pilot study of sport volunteering (jointly held with the Centre for Research into Sport and Society, University of Ottawa)

Reports

Harvey, J., Lévesque, M., & Donnelly, P. with Safai, P., Rose, M., & Pitre, S. (2005). Volunteerism: Researching the capacity of Canadian sport. Sport Canada, Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, & Centre for Sport Policy Studies.

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2006, September 29). Voluntarism and sport: The contributions of minorities. Paper presented at the ‘Sports and Diversity’ Symposium (organized by the Canadian Studies Association to Mark the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough in sports), Montréal, QC.

Donnelly, P., Harvey, J., & Lévesque, M. (2006, April). Sport volunteerism and social capital: Implications for social policy. European Consortium on Policy Research (ECPR), Nicosia, CYPRUS.

Harvey, J., Lévesque, M., Safai, P., & Donnelly, P. (2005, November-December). Sport volunteerism -- experiences, challenges, social capital and sport policy: Results of a pilot study. Presented at the 3rd World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Donnelly, P., Lévesque, M., Harvey, J., & Safai, P. (2005, October). Volunteerism in sport and social capital: Implications for sport policy. Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Winston-Salem, NC.

Publications

Harvey, J., Lévesque, M., & Donnelly, P. (2007). Sport volunteerism and social capital. Sociology of Sport Journal, 24(2), 206-223.

Safai, P., Harvey, J., Levesque, M., & Donnelly, P. (2007). Sport volunteerism in Canada: Do linguistic groups count? International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 42(4), 425-439.

Harvey, J., Lévesque, M., & Donnelly, P. with Safai, P., Rose, M., & Pitre, S. (2005). Volunteerism: Researching the capacity of Canadian sport. Sport Canada, Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, & Centre for Sport Policy Studies.

Human rights are fundamental to the ‘sport for all’ work of CSPS – both in terms of the right to participate in sport, and the ways in which the denial of human rights to various population segments represents a barrier to participation in sport. CSPS has been involved in this work since the 50th anniversary of the International Declaration for Human Rights in 1998.

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2007, September 21). Sport and human rights: Cases and issues. Paper presented at an International Workshop on Sports and Peace, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Donnelly, P. (2006, November). Sport and human rights II. Panel discussant at North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Donnelly, P. (2006, June). Sport and human rights. Paper presented at the 41st University of Otago Foreign Policy School: Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World, University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.

Donnelly, P. (2003, June 27). The Right to Health, Play, Activity, and Sport. Panellist at Girls In/Action: An Interdisciplinary Research Symposium about Youth In/Activity, Gender and Health, Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Health and Physical Activity, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Publications

Donnelly, P. (2008). Sport and human rights. Sport in Society, 11 (4), 381-394.

Donnelly, P., & Kidd, B. (2006). Achieving human rights in and through sport. ICSSPE Bulletin, 48 (September).

Donnelly, P. (2006). Sport and children’s rights. ICSSPE Bulletin, 48, (September).

Kidd, B., & Donnelly, P. (2000). Human rights in sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 35(2), 131-148.

Funding

Contract: Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES)

Develop a position paper for the True Sport initiative

Presentations

Donnelly, P. (2003, September). The Sport We Want: Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport Conference (invited participants, on the basis of preparing key position paper), Ottawa, ON.

Publications

Donnelly, P. & Kidd, B. (2003). Realizing the expectations: Youth, character, and community in Canadian sport. In The sport we want: Essays on current issues in community sport in Canada. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.

Funding

Research grant/contract, International Olympic Committee, 2008 ($4,000)

Youth and the practice of sport – A worldwide analysis: India and Pakistan

Principal Investigator: Bruce Kidd (co-investigators: Boria Majumdar and Peter Donnelly)

Report

Kidd, B., Majumdar, B., & Donnelly, P. (2008). Youth and the practice of sport – A worldwide analysis: India and Pakistan. Report prepared for the International Olympic Committee.

Funding

Research grant/contract: Heart and Stroke Foundation, 2009 ($100,000)

Economic Policy, Obesity and Health: A Scoping Review. Principal Investigator – Guy Faukner; Co-investigators –Paul Grootendorst, Roberta Ferrence, Rena Mendelsen, Peter Donnelly, Kelly Arbour.

Publications

Faulkner, G., Grootendorst, P., Nguyen, V.H., Ferrence, R., Mendelson, R., Donnelly, P., & Arbour-Nicitopoulos. (2010). Economic policy, obesity and health: A scoping review. Toronto: Exercise Psychology Unit.