19. Nico Schulenkorf (Germany & Australia) - How can sports events achieve developmental outcomes?

Inspira | Erika Mueller Chen

Erika speaks to Dr. Nico about becoming a SDP researcher when the sector was burgeoning, the importance of supporting students, benefits of co-design in programming, and the usefulness of events to achieve social development.

Dr. Nico Schulenkorf is a Professor of Sport Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is passionate about using sport as a vehicle for community development and his research focuses on the social, cultural and health-related outcomes of sport and event projects. For more than two decades, Nico has been leading sport-for-development and health promotion programs in countries such as Sri Lanka, Israel and the Pacific Islands. He is co-founder and past editor of the Journal of Sport for Development.

Nico’s LinkedIn

Erika’s LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/erikamchen

Resources:

1. Journal of Sport for Development
2. International Platform on Sport and Development aka Sportanddev
3. The Contributions of Special Events to Sport-for-Development Programs (2016)
4. Moving beyond disciplinary silos: The potential for transdisciplinary research in Sport for Development (2022)
5. Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace (2022)
6. Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research (2020)
7. SMAANZ Webinar Recording: Introduction to Sport for Development (2017)
8. Routledge Handbook of Sport and COVID-19 (2022)

Episode Info:

• Episode recording date: October 25, 2022.
• See Erika’s LinkTree for episode transcript.
• “The Podcast Intro” by “Music_Unlimited” was retrieved from Pixabay. Licensor's Username and Licensee Username - erika_mueller.

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