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Using transdisciplinary research to examine talent identification and development in sport

- Toohey, Kristine, MacMahon, Clare, Weissensteiner, Juanita, Thomson, Alana, Auld, Chris, Beaton, Anthony, Burke, Matthew, Woolcock, Geoff

Authors: Toohey, Kristine , MacMahon, Clare , Weissensteiner, Juanita , Thomson, Alana , Auld, Chris , Beaton, Anthony , Burke, Matthew , Woolcock, Geoff
Date: 2018
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sport in society Vol. 21, no. 2 (2018), p. 356-375
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Description: Effective sport talent identification and development (TID) programmes are integral to a nation's success in international sport. Using a transdisciplinary approach that involved sport practitioners and researchers with diverse theoretical perspectives, we investigated TID factors in four Australian sports (Australian rules football, cricket, kayaking and tennis). A transdisciplinary approach allowed us to isolate and explore a range of factors critical to successful sport TID. This methodological article explores how this project moved TID research beyond its paradigmatic, quantitative, sport science lens and advanced knowledge and practice in TID from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The use of a transdisciplinary approach in future TID research is recommended.

Virtual reality for better event planning and management

- Thomson, Alana, Proud, Ingrid, Goldston, Andrew, Dodds-Gorman, Rebecca

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Proud, Ingrid , Goldston, Andrew , Dodds-Gorman, Rebecca
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Impact of ICTs on Event Management and Marketing Chapter 11 p. 177-198
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Description: Digital technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), will have an increasing influence on the way events are experienced and managed. To date, scholarship has focused predominantly on the possibilities that VR presents for event experiences by event attendees, and there has been limited consideration of the application of VR for event planning and management. In this chapter, the authors provide a brief overview of the growth and application of virtual reality technology in events. A case study of a private sector start-up in the Australian setting is examined with a focus on VR technologies, it is developing as an aid in event planning and logistics. Key opportunities and challenges of VR pertinent to event planning and management are identified, and the authors suggest a number of implications for industry practice and event education, alongside avenues for future research to support the development of VR in event management and education. © 2021, IGI Global.

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Key issues of health and safety for workers in residential aged care : an expert study

- Seaward, Liz, Morgan, Damian, Thomson, Alana

Authors: Seaward, Liz , Morgan, Damian , Thomson, Alana
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Frontiers in Public Health Vol. 10, no. (2023), p.
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Description: Introduction: Residential aged care (RAC) represents a fast-growing sector within Australia's health care system and is characterized by high levels of workplace injury. To better understand this injury problem, this study investigated key informant perspectives concerning sector occupational health and safety (OHS) focused on key issues associated with the risk of worker injury. Method: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with nine key informants representing (OHS) specialists, healthcare employers, regulators, worker association representatives, and academic researchers in OHS or healthcare. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: This study identified six themes on OHS within RAC including (i) the physical and emotional nature of the work, (ii) casualization of employment, (iii) prioritization, (iv) workforce profile, (v) OHS role construction, and (vi) clinical standards. The study highlighted differences in OHS roles between RAC and other safety-critical sectors regarding governance and management of OHS. The key informants identified a propensity within RAC to downplay or disregard worker OHS issues justified through prioritizing resident safety. Further, neither OHS professional nor institutional logics are prominent in RAC leadership and decision-making where the emphasis is placed on mandatory standards to maintain funding purposes. Several recommendations are made to address identified issues. Copyright © 2023 Seaward, Morgan and Thomson.

Sport event legacy: A systematic quantitative review of literature

- Thomson, Alana, Cuskelly, Graham, Toohey, Kristine, Kennelly, Millicent, Burton, Paul, Fredline, Liz

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Cuskelly, Graham , Toohey, Kristine , Kennelly, Millicent , Burton, Paul , Fredline, Liz
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sport management review Vol. 22, no. 3 (2019), p. 295-321
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Description: •Sport event legacy is a complex and contested phenomenon.•Articles from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia dominate the articles considered.•Research has grown since 2000, with a rapid increase from 2007 onwards.•The need for legacy planning is emphasised in over half of the studies considered.•Researchers should develop long-term, transdisciplinary research agendas featuring empirical and mixed method designs. The study of sport event legacies has grown rapidly since 2000 across a number of disciplines related to planning and hosting large-scale sport events. However, to date, there have been limited attempts to systematically review and synthesise extant sport event legacy research, reflect on existing knowledge, and identify key gaps for future research. In this article, the authors reviewed the state of sport event legacy research through a systematic quantitative review of 305 original, peer-reviewed research articles published in English language journals between 2000 and 2016. Results demonstrate that a small group of academics concentrated in particular countries are driving the publication of studies on sport event legacy in predominately specialised sport and event journals. There is a clear research interest in legacy outcomes realised through hosting sport events in areas of public life, politics, and culture, as well as mass participation sport. The authors identify key areas for future research and make recommendations for empirical research designs to progress scholarship and better inform policy and practice pertaining to sport event legacy.

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Women’s professional sport leagues : a systematic review and future directions for research

- Thomson, Alana, Hayes, Michelle, Hanlon, Clare, Toohey, Kristine, Taylor, Tracy

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Hayes, Michelle , Hanlon, Clare , Toohey, Kristine , Taylor, Tracy
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sport Management Review Vol. 26, no. 1 (2023), p. 48-71
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Description: Women’s professional sport has grown over the last decade and so has academic scholarship investigating it. It is timely to review and consolidate extant scholarship to identify patterns and gaps in research and future directions for research to support continued advancement in women’s professional sport knowledge and practice. This paper presents a systematic quantitative literature review (SQLR) of 57 academic peer-reviewed journal articles researching women’s professional sport leagues and published between 2000 and 2019. We provide bibliographic findings, extend the typical SQLR approach and provide an inductive thematic analysis of article findings to synthesise the knowledge base present in the extant research. Based on our SQLR findings, we highlight four key research directions, including the need for (1) diversity in inquiry and reflexivity by researchers, (2) innovative and enabling theories and conceptual frameworks, (3) transdisciplinary research approaches and (4) sustainable business models for women’s professional sport. We emphasise that to advance our theoretical understandings and sport management practices in women’s professional sport, academics must commit to exploring women’s sport in new and different ways, to achieve new and different knowledge and outcomes. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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From legacy rhetoric to business benefits: A case study of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games

- Carlini, Joan, Coghlan, Alexandra, Thomson, Alana, O'Neil, Andrew

Authors: Carlini, Joan , Coghlan, Alexandra , Thomson, Alana , O'Neil, Andrew
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Event management Vol. 24, no. 1 (2020), p. 75-96
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Description: Bids for large-scale sporting events and the accompanying political rhetoric typically include promises of economic development and gains for host business communities over the short and long term. Although conceptual models for economic leverage of large-scale sport events have been developed, our knowledge of the practical experiences of private enterprise converting opportunities presented by large-scale sport events is limited. In this article, the authors address this gap through a case study of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The article investigates the opportunities and challenges perceived by private enterprises across the host city and explores the implementation of existing strategies to leverage benefits for business. Although participants identify the general benefits of hosting the event, they struggle to conceptualize benefits in relation to their own business settings. This suggests a disconnect between the legacy rhetoric of large-scale sporting events and the conversion of these opportunities into outcomes by private enterprises in the host city. Against this background, the article outlines a range of practical implications for private enterprise and key areas for future research.

A systematic quantitative literature review of empirical research on large-scale sport events’ social legacies

- Thomson, Alana, Kennelly, Millicent, Toohey, Kristine

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Kennelly, Millicent , Toohey, Kristine
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Leisure Studies Vol. 39, no. 6 (2020), p. 859-876
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Description: The potential to realise social legacies through hosting large-scale sport events has gained saliency in policy and academic contexts over the last decade. However, social legacies, such as enhanced civic pride, social inclusion, civic engagement, and quality of life remain largely under researched. This article presents findings from a systematic quantitative literature review of academic articles which empirically investigated social legacies and were published between 2000 and 2016. Seventy-seven articles were examined to find patterns and gaps in the research. Our findings show 34 social legacy types have been examined empirically. However, empirical research on social legacies comes from a limited number of geographic contexts, and the theories and methods employed to research such legacies are also limited, suggesting opportunities for innovation in future research designs. We highlight a role for leisure studies to contribute to richer understanding of social legacies. We also call for greater intentionality by researchers to consider what constitutes social legacy and more meaningful and unique ways to research social legacies and inform practice. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

COVID-19 and national sport events : a case study of the sport event logistics for the 2021 Australian Road Nationals Cycling Championships

- Thomson, Alana, Kaufmann, Kipp, Archer, Verity, Halabi, Abdel, Ambrosy, Josh

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Kaufmann, Kipp , Archer, Verity , Halabi, Abdel , Ambrosy, Josh
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Sport and COVID-19 Chapter 32 p. 341-351
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Description: This chapter is focused on sport events hosted at a national level. In meeting this aim, the chapter explores the impact of COVID-19 on a national sport event held in Australia as the major case study. The authors conducted a detailed analysis on a national road cycling event held in Ballarat in the state of Victoria. The city of Ballarat hosted the 2021 Australian Road Nationals Cycling Championships, with this national event providing a series of COVID-19-related logistical and event management challenges that are documented and dissected in the chapter. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Stephen Frawley and Nico Schulenkorf; individual chapters, the contributors.

Large-scale sport events and resident well-being : examining PERMA and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

- Doyle, Jason, Filo, Kevin, Thomson, Alana, Kunkel, Thilo

Authors: Doyle, Jason , Filo, Kevin , Thomson, Alana , Kunkel, Thilo
Date: 2021
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Relation: Journal of Sport Management Vol. 35, no. 6 (2021), p. 537-550
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Description: Delivering community-based benefits is oftentimes cited to justify the high costs associated with hosting large-scale events. The current research is embedded in positive psychology to examine how an event impacts host community members’ PERMA domains, reflected through positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. Adopting a longitudinal approach, the authors interviewed 15 host community members before and after a large-scale sport event to determine if and how the event impacted their well-being. The findings uncovered evidence that the event activated positive emotions, relationships, and meaning across both phases, and evidence of accomplishment within the postevent phase. The findings contribute to the knowledge by examining the links between large-scale sport events and well-being throughout the event lifecycle. This research forwards implications for event bidding committees, event organizers, and host community officials to maximize community well-being through hosting large-scale events and to help justify associated expenses from a social–psychological perspective. © 2021 Human Kinetics, Inc.

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The political economy of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events : a conceptual paper

- Thomson, Alana, Toohey, Kristine, Darcy, Simon

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Toohey, Kristine , Darcy, Simon
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Sport Management Vol. 35, no. 4 (2021), p. 352-363
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Description: Sport event studies have demonstrated that relevant stakeholders must share objectives and coordinate efforts to leverage a large-scale sport event to secure positive legacies. However, the challenging and complex task of collaboration between networks of diverse organizational stakeholders to secure legacies has received little scholarly attention. In this conceptual paper, the authors explore, through a political economy lens, differences between the political economies of sports and sport events pertaining to mass sport participation legacies. The authors focus on the mesolevel and consider how divergences in political economy elements—structure and context, stakeholders and ideas/incentives, and bargaining processes—influence the likelihood of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events. The authors suggest a need for event legacy stakeholders to engage more meaningfully with the complexities surrounding securing mass sport participation legacies. In addition, they provide pragmatic, actionable implications for policy and practice to assist stakeholders in addressing the challenges they face to maximize legacy outcomes. © 2021 Human Kinetics, Inc.

Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory : the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games

- Carlini, Joan, Thomson, Alana, O’Neil, Andrew, Green, Amelia

Authors: Carlini, Joan , Thomson, Alana , O’Neil, Andrew , Green, Amelia
Date: 2024
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: European Sport Management Quarterly Vol. 24, no. 2 (2024), p. 428-448
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Description: Research question: Governments often launch high profile and expensive bids to host large-scale sporting events to promote economic development. However, many studies have called into question the economic benefits of these events for host communities and businesses. This study examines the perceptions of host city businesses and their decision-making in relation to event leveraging, using the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games as a case study. Research methods: Using in-depth interviews, a purposive study of 38 business professionals and experts based in the host city of the Gold Coast were conducted. Example mass media, social media, documents, and personal communications materials are presented to illustrate the messaging that businesses were exposed to. Data were analysed using an inductive thematic content approach through the software NVivo. Results and findings: This study confirms that event-related information is vital for business leveraging behaviour. The data illustrated that local firms were at a point of information asymmetry between official forecasted information and their actual in-time experience. As businesses sought out information to inform their business decision-making, they found incomplete and inaccurate information which impacted their success in event leveraging decisions. Implications: Our contribution to knowledge and practice is to propose that event mis/information that is often associated with large-scale sporting events is problematic for business planning and decision making. In applying signalling theory, we discern how official event messaging influences business performance, making an important contribution by highlighting that this mismanagement of official event messaging by event officials presents a critical inhibitor for event leveraging decisions. © 2022 European Association for Sport Management.

Sport event leveraging and violence against women : the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and one million stars to end violence

- Thomson, Alana, Kennelly, Millicent, Cooper, Kimberlea, Macagno, Salvador

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Kennelly, Millicent , Cooper, Kimberlea , Macagno, Salvador
Date: 2024
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Relation: Event Management Vol. 28, no. 8 (2024), p. 1167-1184
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Description: The connections between sport events and violence against women are an emerging area of research and align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5—Gender equality. This article explores the connection between sport event leverage initiatives and raising awareness about violence against women, through a case study of an arts and cultural initiative that ran in conjunction with the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games: One Million Stars to End Violence (OMSTEV). Event leverage literature and a gendered lens informed our study. We focused on the official messaging of the initiative, as a key aspect in social event leverage. We conducted a document analysis of 30 documents including event reports, government media releases, and public media articles to explore how official messaging and media coverage reported the initiative to the broader public. We found official messaging and media coverage portrayed OMSTEV as a successful community engagement initiative that produced a beautiful artistic installation. However, the official reporting and media coverage failed to communicate in a way to raise the broader public’s awareness regarding violence against women. We provide suggestions for practice and research to better contribute to the value of sport events for targeted social causes. Printed in the USA. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2024 Cognizant, LLC.

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