‘Hindrances to cultivating a safer sporting environment’ is a one-year research project, funded by the Olympic Studies Centre of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of its Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme.
The project investigates safeguarding policies and practices in South Korea’s elite sport development system. More particularly, it focuses on three main institutional, social and cultural obstacles to developing a safer sporting environment, such as crisis-driven policy development, slippages between the central and the frontline, East Asian role-bearing relational hierarchy, perverse effects of the safeguarding measures.
The project is led by:
- Dr Minhyeok Tak
Lecturer in Sport Management at Loughborough University - Dr Yoon Jin Kim
Assistant Professor in Sport Pedagogy at the University of Birmingham - Prof Daniel Rhind
Professor of Sport Psychology at Loughborough University
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