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Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport

Author: Hayley

  • Keeping sport safe

    Keeping sport safe

    Against a background of high profile cases of child abuse in sport in the media, Edge Hill University is playing a major role in a new event to raise awareness and share research about exploitation in sport.

    August 22, 2018
  • Edge Hill expert calls for greater recognition of gender-based violence in sport

    Sporting organisations need to do more to understand and prevent gender-based violence, according to Edge Hill University senior lecturer Dr Melanie Lang in an interview with BBC Sport Online.

    August 15, 2018
  • Dr Mike Hartill has given sexual abuse victims a voice

    Dr Mike Hartill, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, initiated the EU-funded project ‘Voices for Truth and Dignity’ (VOICE) in 2015. The project, led by the German Sport University, Cologne, is a collaboration between seven European universities plus sport agencies and victim-support organisations.

    May 23, 2018
  • Academic works with leading charity to raise the profile of sexual abuse in sport

    An academic from Edge Hill University has collaborated with a national charity to develop training to raise awareness of child abuse within sport.

    September 18, 2017

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