Disability Sport: Changing Lives, Changing Perceptions? Conference 2014

Following on from the success of the first conference held in 2012 - Disability Sport: a vehicle for social change? - the Centre for International Business of Sport is hosting an international, inter-disciplinary conference for academics and practitioners. This conference will focus on the use of disability sport as a tool for peace, development and social inclusion.

The conference itself will be based around four main themes:

• Disability sport and social inclusion;
• Sport and health for people with disabilities;
• Paralympic legacies;
• Disability sport for peace and development.

Possible areas for presentations include, but are not restricted to:

• Inclusive sports programmes and policies (recreational/school/city/national);
• Disability Sport as a tool for peace and development in post-conflict zones;
• Sport as a tool for the rehabilitation of individuals disabled as a result of conflict;
• Disability sport and its impact upon non-disabled perceptions of disability;
• Disability sport and the Higher Education sports curriculum;
• The potential economic and social impact of the London 2012 Paralympic Games;
• Sport as a human right for people with disabilities;
• Disability, sport and identity;
• The impact of disability discrimination in the provision of sporting opportunities for people with disabilities;
• Technology and disability sport: where does man become machine?;
• Historical issues in disability sport and the Paralympic Games;
• Media portrayals of disability and Paralympic sport;
• The impact of sport on the health of people with disabilities;
• The elite non-disabled sporting model and disability sport: impacts, problems and possibilities;
• Marketing disability sport: problems and possibilities;
• International perspectives on disability sport.

There will also be opportunities for posters and suggestions for workshops.