Faculty
Health Sciences
Supervisor Name
Dr. Laura Misener
Keywords
Disability, Sport, Volunteer, Training
Description
Disabled sport is significantly less funded than able-bodied sport. Because of this discrepancy, volunteers are heavily relied on for the functioning of large-scale disability sport events. Volunteers are critical to any disability sport event, and it is of utmost importance that they are trained correctly so that these events are successful celebrations of sport. The purpose of this study is to attain current disability sport volunteer training programs and integrate these findings with new qualitative data collected through interviews with athletes with disabilities, event organizers, and previous volunteers. The collection of information will be multi-phased and include data analysis using NVivo.
Acknowledgements
Principal Investigators: Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung of the School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at Queens University and Dr. Laura Misener of the School of Kinesiology at Western University. Funding was provided by MITACS and the Canadian Paralympic Committee. Research opportunity provided by the USRI program at Western University.
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Document Type
Poster
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Cultivating a definitive volunteer training program for large disability sport events
Disabled sport is significantly less funded than able-bodied sport. Because of this discrepancy, volunteers are heavily relied on for the functioning of large-scale disability sport events. Volunteers are critical to any disability sport event, and it is of utmost importance that they are trained correctly so that these events are successful celebrations of sport. The purpose of this study is to attain current disability sport volunteer training programs and integrate these findings with new qualitative data collected through interviews with athletes with disabilities, event organizers, and previous volunteers. The collection of information will be multi-phased and include data analysis using NVivo.