Week 5 mmu was a good one!

Great to hear Prof. Larissa Davies (Professor of Applied Sport Economics) share her research on sport and social impact as part of a panel at the Women's Sport Collective event hosted by Manchester Met Institute of Sport! A fantastic initiative by Fearless Women

Looking forward to my first public event @McInstSport Manchester Metropolitan Uni this afternoon. I am taking part a panel discussion hosted by Dame Sarah Storey for the Women’s Sport Collective. I will be contributing to discussion around social value research and women’s sport.

How can a university help with the challenges in women’s sport? Dame Sarah Storey, Visiting Professor of Sport, will chair a panel with Sue Anstiss MBE, Gary Young, Prof. Larissa Davies and Kirsty Sale. 27 March, 3-6pm. Register now: shorturl.at/aeQ15

The Sport Policy Unit is pleased to welcome Prof. Larissa Davies as a Professor in Applied Economics. Welcome to the team!

Great to see our work with Sport Wales adding value to stakeholders in Wales. Good example of how SROI studies can be used to articulate the value of sport too👇

Proud to have led this study on behalf of Sport Industry Research Centre, SPARC and Sheffield Hallam University. Working with Girish Ramchandani, Shia Ping Kung, Kerry Griffiths, Themis Kokolakakis, Ryan Storey, Lizzy Christy, Prof Peter Taylor & Paul Downward 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 #StandwithUkraine (@lborouniversity)

A great week in Madrid - the delegates were a perfect mix of global thought leaders, industry experts and people who shape sport and physical activity policy. There are still social outcomes that we know need to be measured better, but we are moving in the right direction…

Great presentation drawing on extensive research and data on the link between NCD and PA- is the steps metric an important indicator for inclusivity? #EFHS2023 !

Looking forward to delivering a keynote at the Exercise for Health Summit later this week. Great line up of international speakers. The sun is shining in Madrid too☀️

Kicking off am exciting new project on Gaelic Games at Croke Park - Satellite Account meets SROI meets Events Impact

Pleased to see the application of our Social Value research Sport Industry Research Centre underpinning a new report on the Value of Swimming. Check out the Swim England website for our literature review and more detailed Social Value Analysis report with 4GLOBAL PLC

With SHU sport colleagues at the #EASM2023 gala dinner last night - great week of stimulating Sport Management thought and debate. NI LOC did a great job 👏

The final keynote of #EASM2023 by Alison Doherty

Earlier in the week I presented our Simon roy work at #EASM2023 on the value of recreational physical activity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Some great discussion on how to make SROI an inclusive method for all New Zealanders, including indigenous populations.

Today I co-presented with Prof Alfonso Jimenez at the #ACSM23 conference in Denver. Our session focused on our progress towards delivering an International Consensus on the social value of sport and physical activity Xián Mayo Lindsey Reece 🇬🇧 Steve Mann EuropeActive

Top World-class researcher!! And an incredible team member…!!!

Ahead of our SROI International Consensus session at American College of Sports Medicine Meeting in Denver here you can access our recent EuropeActive THINKactive report focused on understanding the social & economic value of Active Living…
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On our way to our session now… Great team effort from ⁦Prof. Larissa Davies⁩ ⁦Lindsey Reece 🇬🇧⁩ ⁦Inés Nieto⁩ ⁦Xián Mayo⁩ ⁦Steve Mann⁩ supported by ⁦EuropeActive⁩ ⁦GO fit LAB⁩ ⁦Centro de Estudios del Deporte⁩ ⁦España Activa⁩ ⁦Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre⁩