Enhancing the Well-Being of Elite Sport Performers Operating in High Performance Environments

提高在高性能环境中工作的精英体育表演者的福祉

• 批准号: ES/W006421/1
• 负责人: Samuel Giles
• 金额: $ 14.6万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW006421%2F1
• 关键词: Enhancing; Well; Being; Elite; Sport

In the United Kingdom, approximately 1,300 athletes are enrolled in the World Class Programme (UK Sport, 2018). At a global level, the World Players Association union includes over 85,000 athlete members. Athletes train and compete within complex organisational structures that have a collective ethical and legal obligation to safeguard athletes' welfare (Giles, Fletcher, Arnold, Ashfield, & Harrison, 2020). This duty of care extends beyond athletes' physical health to include their mental and social well-being and is perhaps most needed in elite level sport, where an insatiable need for success can be at odds with living a balanced lifestyle. Sport scholars, psychologists, practitioners, organisations, and policy makers are increasingly invested in supporting the quest to optimise athletes' health and well-being in elite sport and there is a need to strengthen the evidence-base underpinning their work. Working collaboratively with Loughborough University, University of Bath, and the English Institute of Sport my doctoral research investigated the nature of athletes' well-being and its measurement in elite sport through a series of studies. These provided: (1) recommendations for progressing the measurement of athletes' well-being; (2) a model of athletes' well-being; (3) knowledge about the predictors of athletes' well-being; and (4) a diagnostic tool to assess well-being in athletes. Yet the lack of interventions purposefully developed in sport in relation to athletes' well-being is halting progress in the sport sector (e.g. Fletcher & Sarkar, 2016; Giles, 2021).The aim of my proposed Fellowship is to produce an evidence-based approach to enhancing athletes' well-being in elite sport. This will enable me to take part in activities to consolidate my doctoral research, build a publication track record, and establish myself as a research leader in the field. This will involve: (1) publishing high quality research articles that extend insight into the ways that enhance athletes' well-being with leading lights from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University and beyond; (2) establishing partnerships with leading research institutions in the United Kingdom (i.e. University of Bath and University of Portsmouth) focused on publishing two significant review articles in this field; (3) building relationships with key stakeholders in the sport sector through links at Loughborough University with an international network of organisations and associations (e.g. the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, FIFA, International Olympic Committee) to share research findings and maximise impact; (4) collaborating with national and international academics (e.g. Prof G Kerr; Prof K Kauffman; Prof K Mori; Dr A Brady) and key stakeholders (e.g. representatives from FIFA, IOC, Safe Sport International, UNICEF, Commonwealth Secretariat, World Players Association) in sport globally to conduct a pilot research study and develop a large funding application focused on athlete well-being worldwide; (5) forming an expert advisory panel (impact panel) focused on producing an intervention framework and recommendations for best practice, and identifying pathways to communicate research findings to key industry stakeholders and groups; (6) presenting my research at national and international conferences; and (7) attending high quality training seminars at Loughborough University and the National Centre for Research Methods to enhance my capability to successfully bid for funding opportunities.In summary, the proposed Fellowship activities and research will consolidate and extend my doctoral research and enable me to establish myself as a research leader in the field of athlete well-being. Significantly, the proposed Fellowship outputs will positively impact the lives of sport performers worldwide and shape how sport puts people - their safety, well-being, and welfare - at the centre of what sport does (Grey-Thompson, 2017).

在英国，约有1，300名运动员参加了世界级计划（UK Sport，2018）。在全球范围内，世界运动员协会联盟包括85，000多名运动员成员。运动员在复杂的组织结构中训练和比赛，这些组织结构具有集体的道德和法律的义务来保障运动员的福利（贾尔斯，弗莱彻，阿诺德，阿什菲尔德和哈里森，2020年）。这种照顾责任超越了运动员的身体健康，包括他们的心理和社会福祉，也许是最需要的精英水平的运动，在那里，对成功的贪得无厌的需要可能与平衡的生活方式不一致。体育学者、心理学家、从业者、组织和政策制定者越来越多地投资于支持在精英体育运动中优化运动员健康和福祉的努力，有必要加强支持他们工作的证据基础。与拉夫堡大学，巴斯大学和体育英语研究所合作，我的博士研究通过一系列研究调查了运动员幸福的性质及其在精英运动中的测量。这些措施包括：（1）运动员幸福感测量进展的建议;（2）运动员幸福感模型;（3）运动员幸福感预测因素的知识;（4）评估运动员幸福感的诊断工具。然而，由于缺乏有目的地在体育运动中开发的与运动员福祉相关的干预措施，阻碍了体育部门的进步（例如，弗莱彻和Sarkar，2016; Giles，2021）。我提议的奖学金的目的是提出一种基于证据的方法，以提高运动员在精英体育运动中的福祉。这将使我能够参加活动，巩固我的博士研究，建立出版记录，并建立自己作为该领域的研究领导者。这将涉及：（1）出版高质量的研究文章，深入了解拉夫堡大学运动、运动和健康科学学院及其他机构的领导者如何提高运动员的健康水平;（2）与英国领先的研究机构建立伙伴关系（即巴斯大学和朴茨茅斯大学）专注于发表该领域的两篇重要评论文章;（3）通过拉夫堡大学与国际组织和协会网络的联系，与体育部门的主要利益相关者建立关系（如体育与人权中心、国际足联、国际奥林匹克委员会）分享研究成果并最大限度地扩大影响;（4）与国内和国际学术界合作（例如：Prof. GKerr; Prof. Kauffman; Prof. KMori; A布雷迪博士）和主要利益相关者（如国际足联、国际奥委会、安全体育国际、联合国儿童基金会、英联邦秘书处、世界运动员协会）在全球体育运动中开展试点研究，并开发一个大型资金申请，重点关注世界各地运动员的福祉;（五）组建专家顾问团（影响小组）侧重于制定干预框架和最佳做法建议，并确定将研究结果传达给关键行业利益相关者和团体的途径;（6）在国家和国际会议上展示我的研究;以及（7）参加拉夫堡大学和国家研究方法中心的高质量培训研讨会，以提高我成功竞标资助机会的能力。综上所述，拟议的奖学金活动和研究将巩固和扩展我的博士研究，使我能够成为运动员福祉领域的研究领导者。重要的是，拟议的奖学金产出将对世界各地体育表演者的生活产生积极影响，并塑造体育如何将人们-他们的安全，福祉和福利-置于体育活动的中心（Grey-Thompson，2017）。