The Inclusive Sport and Physical Activity Research Group is a collective of passionate, supportive, community-oriented individuals, all working towards developing meaningful, ethically responsible, high-quality interdisciplinary research within and around the broad area of Inclusive Sport and Physical Activity.

Professor Győző Molnár leads the research group which consists of three key research themes: (1) Gender, Identity and the Body (led by Dr Christian Edwards); (2) Inclusive Sports (led by Dr Emma Richardson) and (3) Politics of Sport (led by Professor Győző Molnár).

Together these themes build a focused, contemporary and highly relevant research agenda based on collaboration and interdisciplinary practice, to integrate research scholarship in and beyond the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Worcester.  

Researchers, practitioners and students in this group bring unique critical and global insights, knowledge(s) and experience regarding sport, exercise, physical activity and related areas, but have a shared vision of serving marginalised, disenfranchised and excluded communities.

Our Vision

The vision of the Inclusive Sport and Physical Activity Research Group is to serve
marginalized, disenfranchised and excluded communities through excellent research, practice and teaching. This will be done by providing ethically responsible and culturally sensitive critiques of practice, existing inequities and inequalities, and creating opportunities for participation and empowerment through sharing our work within academic and non-academic communities.

By critiquing research and practice embedded in traditional Western-based power imbalances, highlighting of powerlessness, challenging inequities and inequalities, and creating opportunities for participation, reflection and empowerment, the Inclusive Sport and Physical Activity Research Group work to not only extend, translate and transfer knowledge, but to have a direct and positive impact on the communities they wish to serve.