Programme for Play the Game 2024

Challenging traditions: Sports governance in the Global South

11.45
Room: Olav Tryggvason
Chair: Eze Alloysius

• Enhancing football governance in Africa ‐ challenging traditional structures    
  Brian Wesaala, founder & CEO, The Football Foundation for Africa, Kenya
• Incidence of institutional design, in the state of governance of national sports organizations   
  Julie Hortencia Gómez Solano, professor, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Colombia
• Citizen participation in the construction of public policy governance and legitimacy in sports   
  Ana María Arias Castaño, professor, Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales (UDCA), Colombia
• How FIFA's non‐interference policy enables autocratic rule: A case study of the Kenya football federation
  Steffany Ndei, masters in sports ethics and integrity, KU Leuven, Belgium
• AI‐Driven Capacity Enhancement: Empowering African Member Associations for Greater Independence   
  Mazin Eltayib Abusin, president, Sudan Youth Sports Authority, United Kingdom
• Panel debate, Q&A   
    

Doping: ‘It might be out of your body, but it is always on your mind’    

11.45
Room: Tavern
Chair: Martin Dubbey

• Professor Richard McLaren and chief investigator Martin Dubbey discuss a game changing approach to anti‐doping, utilising cutting voice risk analysis technology.
• Panel debate, Q&A
  
  

The impact and legacy of mega sporting events

11.45
Room: Munkholmen/Kristiansten
Chair: Rasmus K. Storm

• Does international sporting success and major event hostships affect people’s willingness to fight?    
  Rasmus K. Storm / Tor Georg Jakobsen, head of research / professor, Play the Game / NTNU Business School, Denmark / Norway
• The illusive pursuit of socio‐economic impacts and outcomes from publicly funded sport events   
  Marijke Taks, professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
• London 2012: Fifteen years of managing impressions of the sporting legacy
  Spencer Harris, professor, Colorado University Colorado Springs, United States
• 2014 Fifa World Cup: The sporting legacy in Brazilian stadiums   
  Sabrina Furtado, researcher, Inteligência Esportiva Research Inst., Brasil
• Equity Unleashed: Optimizing funds allocation in sport through Olympic Solidarity   
  Christoph Jankowski, manager, Warsaw School of Economics | NOC POL, Poland
• Panel debate, Q&A    
  
  

Addressing imbalances, reinventing systems

11.45
Room: Sverreborg
Chair: Troels Rasmussen

• The overlooked power imbalances of sport    
  Henrik H. Brandt, manager, Sports Hub Denmark (IdrætsPlatformen), Denmark
• Towards a sound elite sports eco system: A case study in the Netherlands   
  Koen Breedveld, lector, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
• Empowering the athlete voice to improve sport governance
  Kelsey Sloan, global sports fellow, The Boarding School/Harvard Global Sports Initiative, USA
• The new good story of sports? Critical discourse analysis of state sports administration's and central organisations' documents   
  Samuli Oja, researcher, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Finland
• Panel debate, Q&A 
  
  

Matchfixing and sports manipulation: Athlete perspectives

11.45
Room: Austrått
Chair: Andy Brown

• Build trust to motivate reporting of match fixing    
  Corentin Segalen/Anna Semenova, primary coordinator of the MotivAction project/Project and policy officer, Autorité nationale des Jeux (French Gambling Regulatory Authority)/EUAthletes, France/Russia
• Age manipulation in athletics: Challenges, consequences, and investigative strategies   
  Sanchita Aidasani, sports integrity analyst, Athletics Integrity Unit, Monaco
• Explaining elite athletes' corruption behaviours: A comparative analysis of doping and match fixing   
  Rocco Porreca, senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
• Athlete‐centred integrity education for sport: Raising the quality and making a difference   
  Andrew Harvey, chair of the board, Gamechanger360, United Kingdom
• Panel debate, Q&A    
  
  

Social protection of athletes: Trapped between governmental responsibility and associational autonomy

11.45
Room: Brattøra
Chair: Ivana Pranjic

Session organised by the German Sport University Cologne                

• Sport integrity and decent work for athletes – the ILO approach
  Kirsten‐Maria Schapira‐Felderhoff, senior multilateral cooperation specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO), Switzerland/Germany
• Implementing athlete‐specific social protection measures in European countries: what's in for governmental and elite sport actors?
  Lorenz Fiege, research associate/PhD candidate, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
• Preserving values, ensuring welfare: the association's perspective on athlete support    
  Sönke Schadwinkel, executive director, European Olympic Academies (EOA), Germany
• Ensuring social protection and granting fair employment relations: Offers and constraints from an athlete’s perspective
  Jürgen Mittag, head of the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
• Panel debate, Q&A 

ClearingSport: Sharing knowledge on sports crime from different perspectives

14.15 
Room: Olav Tryggvason
Chair: Chiel Warners/Grit Hartmann

Lectures and hybrid workshop on the why, how and what in making an alternative agency against sports crime. Interventions will alternate with Q&A.                

• Getting to a sports anti-corruption agency: the path of least resistance    
  Alex Phillips, consultant/administrator, Independent/WFRF, Switzerland
• Delineation and economic ‘guesstimates’ of the dark side of sport
  Wladimir Andreff, honorary professor, Ministry for sports & University Paris 1, France

Short interventions on specific perspectives:                

• A journalistic approach to the costs of sports crime    
  Grit Hartmann, freelance journalist, Germany
• How investigating finances via government and financial industry could help combat corruption in sport    
  Thomas J. Mangine, instructor, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS), United States
• Sports crime as seen from a European police perspective (title tbc)   
  Arthur Whitehead, international liaison officer, Kingston University, United Kingdom
• Why the effort for independent oversight shouldn’t be limited to the West    
  Eze Alloysius, executive director, PLAYYA Nigeria, Nigeria
• Panel debate, Q&A including members of the ClearingSport Advisory Group (present and remotely)                
  
  

How to fix and get away with it

14.15 
Room: Tavern
Chair: Peter Forsberg

• How to fix a club football friendly and get away with it
  Steve Menary, freelance journalist, United Kingdom 
• The facilitators helping sport promote illegal gambling
  Andy Brown, editor, Sports Integrity Initiative, United Kingdom
• Sporting integrity and legal pluralism
  Cem Abanazir, lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom/Turkey
• Gambling addiction among Nigerian youths: The silent killer!
  Cosmas Ezoke, student, MAiSI, Nigeria
• Manipulation of competitions in Brazil: Underestimated damage
  Paulo Marcos Schmitt, integrity consulting, NOC Brazil CBC FPF, Brazil
• Scouting for amateurs. How data companies target Belgian and European lower‐league games    
  Samindra Kunti, reporter, Josimar, Belgium
• Panel debate, Q&A
  
  

Steps towards prevention of abuse in sport

14.15 
Room: Munkholmen/Kristiansten
Chair: Tine Vertommen

• Safeguarding in sport: The need to protect athletes from institutions
  Sanchita Aidasani, sports integrity analyst, Athletics Integrity Unit, Monaco
• Challenging the norm(alised violence): Boundaries of coaching in sport
  Zoe Elizabeth John, lecturer in criminology, Swansea University, United Kingdom
• Volunteering and safeguarding: Ethical perspectives. Youth volunteer coaches and the prevention of harassment and abuse
  Ophélie Delobel, MAiSI Alumni, Ethics of Sport and Integrity, Belgium
• Safeguarding in esports?
  Tsubasa Shinohara, human rights officer, Swiss Esports Federation, Switzerland
• You are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem. A critical policy analysis of the IOC's safeguarding policies in the case of iran
  Zohreh Abdollahkhani, PhD research fellow, University of South Eastern Norway, Norway
  
• The importance of centering the voices of athletes with lived experiences of abuse in prevention efforts    
  Julie Ann Rivers‐Cochran, executive director, The Army of Survivors, United States
• Panel debate, Q&A
  
  

The long way to sustainability in sport

14.15
Room: Sverreborg
Chair: Rikke Rønholt

• Wild Wild(fire) West: How climate change is changing sports 
  Madeleine Orr, assistant professor, University of Toronto, Canada
• Playing with dual purposes: A study of professional football player's engagement in environmental activism
  Frida Austmo Wågan, PhD student, Nord Universitet, Norge
• Rewiring the greening of host cities: Birmingham 2022 and the prospects for social sustainability development
  Seth Kirby, senior lecturer in sport management, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
• Solar panels don't score goals ‐ The long way to a sustainable Bundesliga   
  Maximilian Rieger, editor, Deutschlandfunk, Germany
• Constant inconsistencies? Sport sponsorship meets sustainability   
  Ian Mengel, board member, PLAY!YA, Germany
• Winter athlete's footprint   
  Hanne Marie Brevik/Anne Rognerud, Head of sport reporting/Senior sports reporter; Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), Norway
• Panel debate, Q&A             
  
  

Protect and promote: The athlete perspective in anti‐doping

14.15
Room: Austrått
Chair: Faraz Shaehlei

• Protecting the precarious athlete: How athlete working conditions legitimise substance misuse in elite sport
  Daniel Read, researcher, Loughborough University London, United Kingdom
• The impacts of doping sanctions on athletes: The need for institutional support and continued research
  Byron Juma, PhD candidate & Jules Woolf, assistant professor, University of Illinois‐Urbana‐Champaign, USA
• Protecting ‘Protected Persons’: Legal and ethical issues impacting mandatory anti‐doping investigations into athlete support personnel
  Marcus Mazzucco, adjunct lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada
• Promoting athlete participation in anti‐doping education ‐ case study of a good‐practice approach
  Marc Wonneberger, head of section 'Fight Against Doping‘, Federal Institute of Sport Science, Germany
• Social media use in doping prevention and enforcement
  Genevieve Birren, professor, SUNY Cortland, United States
• From athlete voice to athlete agency: fostering athlete collaboration in service to clean sport
  Allison Wagner, director of athlete & international relations, USADA, United States
• Panel debate, Q&A
  
  

Women's sports: Participation, experiences and leadership

14.15
Room: Brattøra
Chair: Poul Downward

Session organised by Loughborough University London

• Womens participation in football in Europe    
  Paul Downward, professor, Loughborough University London, United Kingdom
• Online experiences of female athletes    
  Lauren M. Burch / Andrea N. Geurin, senior lecturer / professor,  Loughborough University London, United Kingdom
• Developing female leaders in and through sport    
  Jacqueline Mueller, lecturer, Loughborough University London, United Kingdom
• On the cost of wearing white shorts in women's sport    
  Alex Krumer, professor, Molde University College, Israel
• Panel debate, Q&A