Events
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African Games Installation
Ghana
Immersive Virtual Installation
Celebrate 10 of Africa’s outstanding Para and non-disabled athletes in an interactive way. • Get to know our real African Giants, self-confident, self-reliant as Burna Boy says! • Build empathy, and be inspired bythe aspirational athleticism of African athletes • To the sports and gaming audience attending, enjoy LED-based immersion with haptic features • Moniter your own progress through the experience with 180 projection screens • Take part in continent-wide, pan-African media coverage pre-, during, and post event.
past events
FIFA Medical Conference
Boston, MA
Our aim is to provide top-level medical services at FIFA tournaments, keep football free from doping, and protect and improve the health of all who play football, from grassroots to elite level worldwide.
The International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference
Cairo, Egypt
A scientific conference designed to promote and advance the mission, goals, objectives, and reputation of the IPC, VISTA 2023 will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a theme of “Developing Para Sport: inclusion, transformation, and performance”.
ISPRM 17th World Congress Conference
Cartagena, Columbia
June 4 -8, 2023
Max Velocity Speed Summit
Accra, Ghana
Ghana’s Premier High-Performance Youth Sports Event
Hospital for Special Surgery Department of PM&R Grand Rounds
New York, NY
When ‘Toughing it Out’ Stopped Making Sense: Athlete Safeguarding and the Emerging Culture of Global Sports Equity
Yale School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
New Haven, CT
Leveraging Virtual Reality, Assistive Technology, and Adaptive Sports to Facilitate Inclusion and Equity for Persons with Disabilities
Stanford University Department of PM&R Grand Rounds
Palo Alto, CA
“When You Win, You’re English. When You Lose, You’re Black”: Safeguarding Athletes against Abuse and Other Inequities in Global Sport
Mega Sporting Events and Human Rights: The Responsibility of Business
Melbourne, Australia
Panel: Protecting Rights of Workers and Athletes
Paravolley Webinar
Virtual
Safeguarding – It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
HBCU Tech22 Conference
Virtual
“Trust Your Instincts With Emerging Technology: How to find peers and foster collaboration by allowing your perceptions to lead (not your discipline)”
SIGGRAPH 2022
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Immersive Media and Virtual Accessibility in Healthcare (Panel)
Meeting the Moment
Virtual
Advancing the Conditions for Safety, Equity, and Joy in Sports
Canterbury Christ Church University Postgraduate Research Forum
Kent, UK
Neurobiology of experienced and witnessed trauma in sport
International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Lisbon, Portugal
Adaptive fitness anytime, anywhere (Podium), Move a muscle, change a life (Podium), A novel portable and cost-efficient wheelchair training roller for persons with disabilities in economically disadvantaged settings (Podium)
Games for Change Festival
Virtual
Developing and Evaluating a Wheelchair VR Locomotion Interface
(Project Brief)
July 13-16, 2022
British Journal of Sports Medicine Live!
Brighton, UK
Safeguarding in Para Sport (Podium) Female Athletes
May 25, 2022
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
Austin, TX
Sports Medicine for All: Research Summit on Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
April 8-13, 2022
Safe Sport International
Virtual
Keynote Lecture: Athletes’ Perceptions of their Human Rights in Sport
April 1-3, 2022
13th International Congress of the Iranian Sport Science Research Institute
Tehran, Iran
Prioritizing Athlete Safety and Wellbeing in Sport: The Current State of Play in Global Athlete Safeguarding
March 8, 2022
International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference
Monaco
Symposium presentations:
#MeToo Sport: The Prevention of Non-Accidental Violence in Sport Settings, It’s Not Just About One Bad Apple.
Sports Injury Prevention and Harm Reduction in the Global South: Socioecological Considerations for Contextualized Research, Policy and Practice
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC)
Virtual
December 2, 2021
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
Virtual
December 14, 2021
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR)
Nashville, TN
November 11-14, 2021
Sports Physiotherapy Association of Zambia
Virtual
November 9, 2021
Ministry of Sports Colombia
Virtual
November 8, 2021
Centre for Sport and Human Rights
Virtual
Symposium: Safeguarding Victims and Survivors of Abuse throughout the Investigation and Remedy Process
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October 5, 2021
FIMS World Conference of Sports Medicine
Athens, Greece
Symposium presentations:
‘At the Heart of Gold:’ Understanding the culture of intentional injury (abuse) in global sport
The Art and Science of Monitoring and Evaluating Abuse Prevention Programs in International Sport
September 23-26, 2021
BMJ Talk Medicine
Why SportsEquity e-Edition is a must read for all working in SEM.
September 24, 2021
European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations
Virtual
The challenge of the decade for sports medicine
“It is time to acknowledge the threat that the abuse of athletes poses to our field and take responsibility”
Time: 19:00 -20:30 Central European Time
July 28, 2021
Foundation for Global Sports Development
Virtual
Panel: See it, Stop it — Tackling Abuse in Amateur Sports
June 16-17, 2021
ISPRM 2021 Congress
Panel: Sports
Symposium (Task Force on Physical Activity for Persons with Disabilities): Impact of COVID-19 on Health-related lifestyle behaviors in persons with disabilities worldwide
June 12-15, 2021
IPSCAN Conference
Podium Presentations:
Leveraging the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework to strengthen safeguarding in youth sport (Authors: Tuakli-Wosornu, Macleod)
Athletes’ perceptions of intentional injury (abuse): the impact of sociocultural context (Authors: Rutland, Suttiratana, Vieira, Janarthanan, Amick, Tuakli-Wosornu)
Safeguarding Reimagined: Centering athletes’ rights and repositioning Para sport to chart a new path
(Authors: Kirby, Tuakli-Wosornu)
June 7-11, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Human Research Engineering Laboratories State of the Science Symposium:
Social Determinants of Health Disparities in Rehabilitation and Reintegration panel.
May 26th, 2021
5th Annual Steadman Philippon Research Institute Injury Prevention Symposium
Vail, Colorado (Virtual)| Oral Presentation
Podium presentation: Intentional Injury (Abuse) Prevention: The State of Play in Athlete Safeguarding.
April 28-29, 2021
Sports, Medicine & Health Summit 2021
49th German Sports Medical Congress of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention Sports Medicine and Health Summit, Hamburg (Virtual).
Panel presentation: ‘At the Heart of Gold’
April 20-24, 2021
30th Annual American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Conference.
Podium presentation: The Athletes’ Rights Survey: A Step Towards Intentional Injury (‘Abuse’) Prevention in Sport.
April 13-18, 2021
Armies of Enablers
Deconstructing sexual abuse of athletes and bystanders who perptuated a culture of turning a blind eye.
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January 29, 2021
Centre for Sport and Human Rights
Sports and Rights:
Children, Sport, & COVID-19 ep1
January 8, 2021
ShePower Sport Webinar
Bullying in Women’s Sport:
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt
December 10, 2020
Challenging Taboos to Keep Sport Safe
IOC Athlete Safeguarding Webinar Series for ANOCA:
Background and Research
October 22, 2020
University of New South Wales Human Rights Institute Webinar
The Human Rights of Athletes
August 4, 2020
International Olympic Committee Webinar
“Responsibility Mapping – Role of an International Federation, National Federation, National Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee”
November 8, 2019
The Rebound Film Screening & Discussion
October 23, 2019
SELY Soft Launch
October 18, 2019
Camp Rising Sun
July 23, 2018
