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Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community (2014-2018)

Abstract

The Paralympic Games are fast approaching their Olympic cousins in popularity and profile as an international sporting spectacle. Yet little is known about disability sport since its introduction into Australia in the 1950s. The project will analyse the birth, development and maturation of the Paralympic movement; and it will show how sport has challenged the disadvantages faced by people with disabilities and contributed to shifting patterns of social perceptions of disability. This complex and motivating story will be created by a new community of practice that connects historians, Paralympians, specialist online writers and editors, and the broader community.

Experts

Professor Murray Phillips

Centre Director of Centre for Sport and Society
Centre for Sport and Society
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Murray Phillips
Murray Phillips

Associate Professor Gary Osmond

Affiliate of Centre for Sport and Society
Centre for Sport and Society
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Gary Osmond
Gary Osmond