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ESRC CASE PhD Studentship (+3)
Sports-Based Interventions: A Comparative Sociological Study of their Effectiveness and User ExperienceSchool of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, in partnership with Street League.Closing Date: 30 June 2010. Do sports-based interventions help people into employment, education and training?
This PhD studentship features a close collaboration between the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University and the Street League, a national charity, which provides a range of sports-based intervention programmes for marginalised adults and young people to enable these user groups to move into employment, education or training.The research project's main objective is to investigate the implementation and effectiveness of Street League's work. The project will explore how user groups experience and interpret Street League's programmes and examine the connections between the social profiles of user groups and the outcomes that are achieved.The research will feature a comparative study of two Street League centres, based in the North-East of England and London. The study will contribute substantially to our wider understanding of the effectiveness of sport-based intervention programmes, which have grown significantly in number over the past 10-15 years.
This PhD studentship is fully funded through an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) award and is open to UK and EU students who meet the ESRC's postgraduate eligibility criteria for funding. Further information about the award's eligibility criteria can be found at:
Postgraduate Funding Guide (update Octobre 2009)
This award is tenable for three years over its lifetime if will cover the full cost of award-holder's tuition fees at the Home/EU postgraduate rate and provide an annual maintenance grant at the ESRC's national CASE rate, which in 2009/10 will be £15,590. Street League will also be contributing towards the studentships, providing the award-holder with an additional £2,000 per year, and they will also be assisting with accommodation and subsistence expenses while conducting fieldwork away from home. The successful candidate may also have the opportunity to undertake some teaching and research within the University, subject to satisfactory progress on this studentship.
The supervisors are Professor Richard Giulianotti (first) and Dr Laura Kelly (second). The PhD student will join the School of Applied Social Sciences, which is a highly-rated interdisciplinary unit with particular research and teaching strengths in Sociology, Criminology, Sport, Social Work, and Community & Youth Work. The School has a thriving community of 71 postgraduate students.
The start date for this studentship is 1 October 2010. The studentship is available on a '+3' basis. By the start of the studentship, the successful candidate should have obtained an ESRC-recognised postgraduate masters degree in research methods or should have undertaken equivalent research methods training. Applicants should also have a minimum 2:1 class undergraduate degree in Sociology, Sport Studies, Criminology, or a cognate subject.
How to Apply?
Applicants wishing to be considered should make an on-line application to the University on or before 30 June, 2010, as well as submitting a research proposal and CV. To apply, please read the further details about studying for a research degree in the School at: http://www.durham.ac.uk/sass/phd and then fill in the online application form by going to: http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ and following the link to the application form.Please select "PhD - Sociology and Social Policy" as your programme and indicate for which studentship you are applying. For further information on the application process, please contact Jill Lea (Research Secretary) at j.m.lea@durham.ac.uk / 0191 3341485.
Further Information
For further details about this opportunity, please contact Professor Richard Giulianotti or Dr Laura Kelly.
Email: richard.giulianotti@durham.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)191-334-6832
Email: laura.kelly@durham.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)191-334-6830
Sport and Diaspora
12-13 February 2010
Auditório A. Sedas Nunes
Institute of Social Sciences
University of Lisbon
Organization: foomi-net & DIASBOLA
Support: ICS-UL & FCT
There is a growing interest among scholars
in sport and leisure studies to focus on
issues related to the globalization of sports
and on the impact of international
migration. Social scientists who work in the area of international migration, again, are getting interested to study athlete
migration and to view the impact of sport
and leisure among diaspora communities.
The international conference
Sport & Diaspora provides a platform for
interdisciplinary exchange by focusing on
two major aspects which derive from the
title: The migration of athletes and the
role of sports in the everyday culture of
migrants. Twenty-one scholars, among them pioneering and leading authors in the field, from the areas of anthropology,
sociology, history, geography, political
science, sport and exercise sciences, as well
as anthropology and sociology of sports
will present data and case studies in order
to discuss the developed concepts of their
areas across disciplines.
What does the biography-marking
experience of migration really mean for
young talents and professional athletes?
Which impact has the international
migration of athletes in sending and
receiving countries, and for (the
management of) sports at the local,
national and international level? What is
the importance of sport as a leisure activity and commodity, of sporting celebrities and mediated spectacles in diasporic life?
More information e.g. on speakers and abstracts, as well as the official conference poster for further distribution is provided below:
Notes on Speakers Sport and Diaspora
DIASBOLA LECTURE
Friday, 30.10.2009, 18h
ICS-UL, Sala Polivalente
"Soccer, a paradoxical Commodity. Will Business destroy the Game?"
Detlev Claussen, University of Hannover, Germany
Soccer's cultural and social relevance has increased tremendously since the epochal change of 1990. Soccer is consumed globally by now, driven by mass media. Every four years the world championship finals are the largest and most recognized global media event. But soccer runs the risk to become a victim of its own success story: The dependence upon mass media correspond with an ever increasing debt of the clubs. Unlimited consumption has led to the exhaustion of players and the game as a whole. Tension, once at the core of the game's attractiveness becomes dullness, when the single festive soccer day becomes a seven day weekly routine.
Detlev Claussen is fulltime professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Hannover (Germany) and known as a major scholar of Critical Theory. His expertise includes the areas of globalization and international migration, as well as globalized sports, ethnicity, racism, and anti-semitism. With regard to football, Claussen´s research interests include football migration and soccer as an integral part of Show Business and international division of labor at comparing football culture especially in England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, and China. His football research is part of a sociological comparison of multiple modernities concerning Western Europe, Brazil, China, India, and the United States.
Detlev Claussen is biographer of both Theodor W. Adorno and Béla Guttmann.
DIASBOLA WORKSHOP I
Friday 30.10.2009, 11h-16h (incl. lunch break 13-14h)
ICS-UL, Sala de Aulas 1
Portuguese emigrants in five historical contexts: Debating concepts of collective subjectivity
With consultant Detlev Claussen (University of Hannover, Germany) and papers presented by the Portugal-based research unit of DIASBOLA, namely Nuno Domingos (Cesnova, forthcoming at ICS-UL), Miguel Moniz (CRIA-CEAS/ISCTE), Victor Pereira (UNL), Nélia Bergano (University of Hannover, Germany), and Nina Clara Tiesler (ICS-UL).
The objective of this workshop is to discuss crucial theoretical concepts on the basis of our field experience in Germany, Switzerland, Mozambique, England, France and New England (USA). The papers report on performances of national and local representations with regard to popular culture in general, and football in particular. The conceptual debate raises issues such as, “Can we speak of a Portuguese Diaspora?”, “How can we qualify our group of study?“, “Do we deal with local or global communities in a strict sense?”, and the imperative to re-think old concepts (such as Portuguese-ness, Home, Fatherland) in the light of new societal settings.
DIASBOLA WORKSHOP II
Thursday, 26.11.2009
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Role of Football and Popular Culture in diasporic settings: Portuguese emigrants und luso-communities
Organization: Stephen Wagg (team member, Leeds Metropolitan University) and Nina Clara Tiesler (ICS-UL) at the UK-based participant institution of DIASBOLA.
Papers by: Nuno Domingos (Cesnova, forthcoming at ICS-UL), Miguel Moniz (CRIA-CEAS/ISCTE), Victor Pereira (UNL), Nélia Bergano (University of Hannover, Germany), and Nina Clara Tiesler (ICS-UL).
Discussants: With Detlev Claussen (University of Hannover), Stephen Wagg (Leeds Metropolitan University), and Adam Brown (Substance, tbc).
With an Open Lecture by Detlev Claussen:
"Adorno: An intellectual history of misunderstandings".
Although the public presentation of research results and data is still ahead of us (see future event planning), our work-in-progress had already called the attention of Portuguese media. Interims results came to public light in:
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Newspaper article of the Portuguese daily `O Público´ (31.08.2008) |
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25-min documentary about Portuguese emigrants in Andorra (“A minha pátria é o futebol português”), directed by Jaime Cravo (ReporTV) and aired several times during the whole months of May 2009 at SportTV1, SportTV2 and Sport TV3.
REPORTV’s "A minha pátria é o futebol português" (My homeland is Portuguese Football), realized by Jaime Cravo (data of airtime: 30th Abril and 1st May on SPORTV) reveals the impact of football amongst the Portuguese emigrants in Andorra, including comments of Dr. Nina Clara Tiesler. It explains that football means much more than a simple game for many Portuguese emigrants. Besides that football is one of the daily main conversation topics (among fans and others), hobby, object of happiness and pain and /or attitude and sense of life, the documentary underlines the Portuguese domination in the professional sector of football in Andorra. In this context, the influence of Portuguese emigrants spreading this sport is discussed, which also exemplifies their active role in diaspora communities in relation to football.
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The news programme of SportTV |
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News alert in the Portuguese sports daily `A Bola´ (30.04.2009) |
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Commentary of Eduardo Cinto Torres in the daily `O Público´ |
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Article in the Magazine ‘Xis’ ("O futebol é muito democrático”),(31-08-2008) |
Collection of articles in various Portuguese newspapers
Article in Belgian edition of 'lusojornal' (Novembre 2009, p.14)
Article in French edition of 'lusojornal' (11.11.2009, p.17)
Article in French edition of 'lusojornal' (18.11.2009 ,p.2)
Article in French edition of 'lusojornal' (25.11.2009, p.4)
