Exploring LGBT+ Fans' Experiences in English Football Stadia

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This project embodies wellbeing, health and communities through focusingon the wellbeing for LGBTQ+ football fans. Football spectatorship canproduce a sense of wellbeing being by fostering a sense of belonging,community, and social inclusion which can benefit those that belong tomarginalised groups by promoting social integration and a sense ofbelonging. The explores football fans experiences of attending footballmatches including the positive aspects as well as the discrimination andexclusion they feel. These findings will be utilised to inform inclusive policyand practice for fans that sit at the margins in a bid to improve wellbeingamong these groups. This project aims to tackle the grand challenges ofhealth and wellbeing by drawing on the experiences of those frommarginalised communities gathered through the use of an innovativemethodological approach using text based platforms for focus groupparticipation; thus contributing to the development of effective researchapproach's with marginalised groups. The project is supported bymulti-disciplinary advisors drawing from Social Work and Social Care andSociology.