Building Japanese research capacity around disability studies and sport to positively impact the lives of people with disabilities - 2020 and beyond

本次申办的目的是扩大现有的国际合作，并促进长期可持续的多伙伴网络，以进一步发展我们在残疾研究和体育（DSS）领域的理解。该项目将汇集英国和日本的社会科学，艺术和人文（SSH）研究人员，包括ECR，他们将加强和发展目前的关系。2020年，日本东京将成为第一个两次举办残奥会的城市，此前曾在1964年举办过残奥会。因此，这提供了一个理想的机会，既可以实现此次拨款的目标，同时也可以通过跨学科的方法来促进我们对残疾人（PWD）的文化理解，从而提高我们对DSS领域的理解，该方法采用参与式方法，以促进该领域新知识的共同创造。来自英国的研究人员来自三所大学：考文垂，苏格兰西部和伍斯特）。日本网络成员来自东京或附近的三所大学：顺天堂大学、筑波大学和早稻田大学，以及一个由政府资助的非学术研究机构：日本基金会残奥会研究小组。日本小组还包括共同创新实验室（COIL）的创始主任，他将作为利益攸关方代表，并直接与东京的残疾人团体联系，COIL与他们一起努力实现包容性社会。英国和日本的网络都包括经验丰富和早期的职业研究人员，因为该项目旨在通过参与和发展年轻研究人员的能力，使这一研究领域长期可持续发展，这些年轻研究人员将在未来几年领导该领域。这两组研究人员将经历一个知识交流和合作研究规划计划（在英国和日本），由其他主要利益相关者，包括残疾人和日本的政策制定者，其中整体网络的各个成员已经获得协助。这将导致在东京2020年残奥会之前，期间和之后长达四年的计划纵向合作研究计划，这将成为更大的资金申请的基础，作为拟议项目的最后一部分。作为一个基线，计划中的大型申办研究计划将旨在调查国际残奥委会（IPC）提出的许多索赔，这些索赔经常被残奥会主办城市组委会重复，关于体育和残奥会本身对东道国残疾人生活的潜在社会影响。其中包括：改善健康状况，提高包容性，改善交通和基础设施，环境无障碍，加强支持服务，改善非残疾人口对残疾人的态度（Brittain，2018年）。这将通过对偏见和规范价值观在日本社会中的作用进行叙述性分析得到支持，使用能力论作为透镜，以了解目前如何构建残疾问题以及主办残奥会对这种叙述的影响。

The aim of this bid is to expand an already existing international collaboration and foster a long term sustainable multi-partner network in order to further develop our understanding in the field of disability studies and sport (DSS). This project will bring together a network of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (SSH) researchers across the UK and Japan, including ECRs, who will both strengthen and develop current relations. In 2020 Tokyo, Japan, will become the first city to host the Paralympic Games twice, having previously hosted them in 1964. This, therefore, provides an ideal opportunity to both meet the aims of this grant call, whilst at the same time improving our understanding of the field of DSS by furthering our cultural understandings of people with disabilities (PWD) using an interdisciplinary approach that adopts participative methodologies to foster co-creation of new knowledge in the field.The researchers from the UK come from three universities: Coventry, West of Scotland and Worcester). The Japanese network members are drawn from three universities based in or around Tokyo: Juntendo, Tsukuba and Waseda, as well as one publicly-funded non-academic research body: the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Research Group. The Japanese group also includes the founding Director of the Co-Innovation Laboratory (COIL) who will act as a stakeholder representative and a direct conduit to groups of PWD in Tokyo with whom COIL work towards achieving an inclusive society. Both the UK and Japanese networks include experienced and early career researchers as the project is designed to make this area of research sustainable over the long term by involving and developing the capacity of young researchers who will lead the field in the years to come. The two groups of researchers will experience a programme of knowledge exchange and collaborative research planning (in both the UK and Japan), assisted by other key stakeholders including PWD and policy makers in Japan, to which various members of the overall network already have access. This will culminate in a planned longitudinal programme of collaborative research to take place before, during and up to four years after the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games that will form the basis for a larger funding application to be written as the final part of the proposed project. As a baseline, the planned research programme for the larger bid will be aimed at investigating many of the claims made by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) that are often repeated by Paralympic host city organising committees, regarding the potential social impact of sport and the Paralympic Games themselves upon the lives of PWD in the host country. These include: improved health, greater inclusion, better transport and infrastructure, environmental accessibility, enhanced support services and improved attitudes towards PWD amongst the non-disabled population (Brittain, 2018). This would be underpinned by a narrative analysis of the role of prejudice and normative values within Japanese society using ableism as a lens to see how disability is currently constructed and the impact hosting the Paralympic Games has on this narrative.