Exploring LGBT+ Fans' Experiences in English Football Stadia

该项目通过关注LGBTQ+球迷的福祉，体现了福祉、健康和社区。足球观众可以通过培养归属感、社区感和社会包容感来产生幸福感，这可以通过促进社会融合和归属感来惠及那些属于边缘化群体的人。探讨了球迷观看足球比赛的经历，包括积极的方面，以及他们感受到的歧视和排斥。这些发现将被用于为处于边缘地位的球迷提供包容性政策和实践，以改善这些群体的福祉。该项目旨在通过使用创新的方法方法，利用基于文本的焦点小组参与平台，利用边缘化社区的经验，解决健康和福祉方面的重大挑战；从而有助于开发有效的边缘群体研究方法。该项目由来自社会工作、社会关怀和社会学的多学科顾问提供支持。

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.