Towards ‘youth boards’ in nonprofit sport organisations: a youth focused citizen social science for inclusive sport services: YOUTHMOVE
lourim | Louvain-la-Neuve, Mons
Description of the project
With ongoing migration waves, new questions arise about the integration of migrants, especially migrant youth with dual cultural identities. Failing to recognise the value of these identities and experiencing double consciousness can lead to stigmatisation, (self-)exclusion, and conflict within communities. These dynamics already shape young people's sport and physical activity patterns, as they tend to join separate clubs, pursue ethnopluralist forms of involvement, or seek cultural capital through sport. The project YOUTHMOVE aims to create a youth board model that enables young people to act as agents in nonprofit sport organisations (local clubs and federations) and to promote culturally diverse sport services. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the project will empower youth agency through citizen social science, using both conventional and digital methods (e.g. digital storytelling and crowdsourcing). It will analyse young people’s participation and non-participation in sport organisations at both personal and societal levels and test a youth board model that includes them directly in decision-making processes. In this way, the project will support more inclusive and culturally diverse sport environments that bring young people into sport organisations.
Research team
Project researcher: Selçuk Açıkgöz
Supervisor: Géraldine Zeimers
Project research assistants: (TBA)
