Informal Sport & the Urban Commons

Establish the extent to which informal team sport fosters social resilience and social capital among new migrants and how does it lead to positive social outcomes beyond the sporting field.

The research aims to understand how informal sport shapes and responds to modes of inclusion and exclusion of migrants and what kinds of urban citizenship emerge from informal sporting participation.

Through international comparison, the research aims to understand how different traditions and trends in the design and use of the built environment and public spaceshape opportunities for informal sporting participation.

Understand the ways in which regulation, urban governance and privatisation of leisure spaces impact access to informal sport and leisure and the benefits that accrue from participation in these activities.