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Football can help refugees

Football can build support networks for refugees and help integrate them into communities, according to a University of Brighton academic.Dr Mark Doidge, Senior Research Fellow, School of Sport and Service Management, has been awarded almost £15,000 by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences to run two workshops under the title ‘Refugees Welcome:…

2016 Easter Challenge Camp 4th to 8th April

The University of Brighton will host the Easter Challenge Camp between the 4th and 8th April 2016, with participation of primary school students from Brighton and Eastbourne.

Professor to speak at discrimination in sport symposium

John Nauright, Professor of Sport & Leisure Management at the University of Management, will be a key speaker at the Adopting a Zero Tolerance Approach on Discrimination in Sport: Ensuring Equality Promoting Inclusion for All symposium. The event takes place on Tuesday 9 February 2016 in central London. Find out more and book your place.

FIFA scandal keeps John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson busy

John Sugden, Professor of the Sociology of Sport, at the School of Sport and Service Management, was inundated with media interviews earlier this week. This followed suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s suggestions that an agreement had been made for Russia to host the World Cup 2018 before the official vote took place. On the day of…

‘Rugby World Cup: what good sports can teach the world about how to play fair’ in The Conversation

Graham Spacey, F4P International Partnership Manager and initiator of F4P programme Rugby 4 Peace, writes about lessons learnt about fair play from the Rugby World Cup for a well renowned discussion platform The Conversation. While the global sport, particularly football, seems to be going through the crisis of values and lack of fair-play, rugby has…

F4P volunteers at the Beyond Sports Awards

As an active NGO in the sport-for-development-and-peace sector (SDP), F4P International attended Beyond Sport Awards, annual global event organised by Beyond Sport bringing together stakeholders from global SDP arena. Beyond Sport is a global organisation that promotes, supports and celebrates the use of sport to address social issues in communities around the world, and Beyond Sports…

Rugby 4 Peace for schools

More than 200 pupils from secondary schools across East Sussex took part in a ‘Rugby 4 Peace’ festival run by the University of Brighton at its Falmer campus. The event was the culmination of a three-day international training programme with teachers, coaches and students from the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, The Gambia, South Korea and the…

Tim reflects on F4P Korea experience

In August 2015, a group of ten students, staff and alumni travelled to Seoul, Republic of Korea to run a Football 4 Peace (F4P) training camp at Seoul National University. The event was to train staff and students from the Physical Education Department and at the Institute of Peace and Reunification Studies in how to…

Prof John Sugden on ABC radio

Professor John Sugden was recently interviewed for ABC Radio in Australia on the subject of Does FIFA operate like a form of mafia? Back in 2003, Professor Sugden co-authored the book Badfellas: FIFA Family At War. Listen to the interview.

Sport for Development and Peace Symposium

School of Sport and Service Management students from Sport Studies BSc, Sport Business Management BSc and Sport and International Development MA took part in the Sport for Development and Peace Symposium which took place this month.