The newly formed Research and Enterprise Group of Sport and Leisure Cultures (SLC) at the University of Brighton is holding a symposium focussed on teaching social justice in sport. One of the distinguishing features about the ‘Brighton school’ of social science
is that it seeks to have a critical social justice aspect to our research and our teaching.
The event will take place on Eastbourne Campus, Hillbrow Room
G41 on Wednesday May 2nd
from 13.00-16.00. The speakers are:
Eric Murangwa MBE, (Football for Hope Peace and Unity), former Rwanda goalkeeper and survivor of the Tutsi genocide
Dr Deborah Gabriel (Bournemouth), author of Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia
and focussed on critical pedagogies in Higher Education
Dr Joanne Hill (Bedfordshire), working on a project on Social justice and socio-cultural issues in physical education teacher education
Dr Jayne Caudwell (Bournemouth), international expert on gender and sexuality in sport, who has published widely in these areas.
It is intended that this event is not just of interest those teaching sport, but for those interested in critical
pedagogies, teaching social justice, de-colonising the curriculum, and wider issues in challenging discrimination.
This event is being held in conjunction with the annual Football 4 Peace v Homophobia Festival – a great example of where
the University of Brighton puts its values into teaching and research. This can be seen in the recent publication of
Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Strcutures co-edited by Tom Carter, Dan Burdsey and Mark Doidge and containing chapters from colleagues in SLC.
If you require any more information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Hope to see you there.
Kind regards
Mark