SIRC's Seminar Series

Thinking about Non-Economic Impacts of Large Scale Events Hits or Myths

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Speaker:

Fred Coalter Professor of Sports Policy, University of Stirling

 

SIRC and Sport Canada would like to extend an invitation to you or a member of your staff to attend a special presentation targeted to NSOs, MSOs and sport practitioners by Dr. Fred Coalter on Thinking about Non-Economic Impacts of Large Scale Events Hits or Myths.

Dr. Coalter is an international speaker and a Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling. He is also the keynote speaker for this year's Sport Canada Research initiative Conference. Dr. Coalter has done research in the areas of sport-for-development and contributions which it is claimed that sport can make to various aspects of social policy.

This presentation is based on work he undertook for UK Sport on Large Scale Sports Events: Event Impact Framework, which explored the possibility of the development of a user-friendly, practical and feasible guide to measuring some of the impacts of various scales of events. The emphasis of this work is largely on the immediate and positive non-economic impacts of events – although any such measurement will inevitable also include some negative assessments.

Topics include Environmental impacts, Publicity and place marketing, Volunteers and the ‘soft-infrastructure’, and Sports development.

 

Space is limited: Register Now!

Date:	Tuesday November 3, 2009
Time:	9:00am-11:00am
Location:	SIRC, 180 Elgin Street, Suite 1400, Ottawa
Contact:	Kim Sparling
Tel:	+1 (613) 231-7472, Ext 243
Toll Free:	+1 (800) 665-6413 North America
Fax:	+1 (613) 231-3739

 

About the speaker:

Fred Coalter is Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling.

He was Director of the Centre for Leisure Research at the University of Edinburgh for 13 years and has been an invited member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s strategic seminar’s on sport and recreation, as well as an influential member of many sport policy research groups including:

• The Sports Council’s Sport and Recreation Research Advisory Group,
• Sport England’s Working Group on Performance Measurement for the Development of Sport,
• Sport Scotland’s Forum on Sport and Social Inclusion,
• The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Working Groups on Defining Excellence in Sport and Recreation; Comprehensive Performance Assessment for Sport and Recreation; Neighbourhood Renewal Unit- Sport Group.

His research interests relate to the contributions which it is claimed that sport can make to various aspects of social policy.

His published work includes A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who’s Keeping the Score? (Routledge, 2007) and he is responsible for compiling Sport England/UK Sport’s on-line research-based Value of Sport Monitor. 

In addition, he writes and researches in the area of sport-for-development, having published Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual (UK Sport, UNICEF, 2006) which was based on extensive fieldwork in Africa and India.

Currently, he is undertaking a three year study of eight sport-in-development projects in Africa and two in India for Comic Relief and UK Sport.

Fred Coalter is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Edinburgh Leisure Ltd, the trust which manages sport and recreation facilities for the City of Edinburgh.

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