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The Sport Panel will look at sport at both the elite level and at the grassroots community level, as part of a top-to-bottom examination of Australian sport and will look for better ways to run, promote and manage sport in Australia.
In recognising the importance of sport and the significant emerging challenges to Australia’s sustained success in elite sport, the Australian Government released the directions paper Australian Sport: Emerging Challenges, New Directions, on 6 May 2008. The paper outlines the need for widespread and continuing reform of Australia’s sporting system.
On 28 August 2008, the Minister for Sport, Kate Ellis, announced the appointment of an independent expert panel that will investigate ways of ensuring that Australia’s sporting system remains prepared for the challenges of the future.
The Independent Sport Panel is calling for submissions from organisations and individuals with an interest in identifying new direction in two key areas: management of elite sport and increasing community participation and physical activity.
Submissions may be lodged on the website from 3 October 2008. The closing date for submissions will be 7 November 2008.
For further information contact Sport Panel support at spsupport@health.gov.au.
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April 15-18, 2009
William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Call for Papers
The College Sport Research Institute welcomes the submission of abstracts for its 2nd annual Scholarly Conference on College Sport to be held on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. The conference’s mission is to: “Provide students, scholars, and college-sport practitioners with a public forum to discuss relevant and timely intercollegiate-athletics issues.”
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect college-sport research on the history of intercollegiate athletics, social-cultural college-sport issues, legal theory or the application of law to college-sport issues, business-related issues in college sport, or special topics related to current college-sport issues. The research should have reached a fairly complete stage of development, and the abstract should provide enough detail about the research, so the reviewers have sufficient information to judge its quality. Abstracts proposing teaching-related sessions on college-sport issues will also be considered, as long as the abstract provides sufficient detail to judge the quality of the proposed session.
Abstracts will undergo a multi-person, blind-review process to determine acceptance.
Abstracts submitted to CSRI should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
Abstracts should NOT be submitted prior to Friday, October 3, 2008 and MUST be received no later than Friday, January 16, 2009 (11:59p.m. EST). Submissions received after this date and time will not be considered for acceptance.
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