Explore our ongoing and past projects that connect sport, race, identity, and media through collaborative, critical, and socially impactful research.
Explore our projects
ROCIES: Rose of Culture in E/Elite Sport
We investigate how (E)top sports organizations make the (cultural) transition to a safe and inclusive sports culture and to a safe professional and personal development of (E)top athletes. To this end, we work with the ‘Rose Of Culture In E/Elite Sport’ model, or the ROCIES model (developed by Dr Smits, Hogeschool Utrecht). In this model, scientific knowledge forms the basis for an integral approach to identify safe as well as harmful sports cultures. The project includes playing a physical 'serious game', with a variety of stakeholders in the elite (e-)sports eco-system. Through playing this game, all participants engage with the topic and identify, address and discuss problematic as well as positive elements within their (e-)sports culture.
Race, Racism and Inclusion in European football
(Chair on Race, Inclusion and Communication within the Erasmus School of History, Culture & Communication)
The research project is focused on uncovering the roots and role that race plays in European professional football. The project aims to investigate issues around racism and inclusion in the football context by grounding its analysis in empirical research and focusing on policy implications.
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