Value of Sport
An emerging area of sport research concerns valuing contributions made by sport to society. Potential benefits derived from sport include economic, health, social, cultural, identity and environmental benefits. Inherent to these benefits is their inevitable association with costs. In this section publications aimed at developing an evidence-base towards understanding the Value of Sport are presented.
The reports have been compiled by independent institutions, commissioned by SPARC, and therefore do not necessarily reflect SPARC’s position on this issue.
The Benefits of Events – an annotated bibliography
This annotated bibliography summarises studies on the likely impacts and value of sports events. The impacts examined were economic, socio-cultural, environmental and health impacts.
National Identity and Sport – an annotated bibliography
This annotated bibliography summarises studies on the ability of sport and events to contribute to national identity, national pride, psychic capital and a ‘feel-good’ factor.
Value of Sport Monitor
The Value of Sport Monitor is a joint Sport England and UK Sport initiative working in conjunction with Professor Fred Coalter and colleagues at the University of Stirling. It provides an online monitoring service of the most up-to-date reference sources and critical reviews of published research evidence on the contribution of sport to a range of broader social issues:
- Crime reduction and community safety
- Economic Impact and regeneration of local communities
- Education and lifelong learning.
- Participation
- Physical Fitness and Health
- Psychological Health and Well-being
- Social capacity and cohesion
The Value of Sport Monitor is not a bibliography (of the type already produced by a number of other agencies). Rather it is based on a relatively rigorous selection process and, in the main, deals with evidence and reasonably robust empirical material and not the more general academic/theoretical material.
Go to the Sport England website to view the Value of Sport Monitor - Research categories.
Updated | 28 Apr 2008.
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