New university studentship will make a governance audit of sports organisations
Loughborough University has announced that a new Graduate School Studentship will look closer into the governance of selected sports governing bodies. The research will add to the theoretical debates on the development and implementation of governance processes in international sports organisations.
The project is an offshoot of Play the Game’s EU project ‘Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations’(AGGIS), which has been carried out in cooperation with the European Journalism Centre and six European universities including Loughborough University.
The studentship project will focus its research on the different models for measuring levels of good governance. Researchers will review and compare governance measuring models and assess their validity, reliability and overall usefulness.
One of the models that the researchers will examine is the ‘Sports Governance Observer’, a tool developed as a part of the AGGIS project that can be used to measure transparency, democracy and accountability in international sports organisations.
Professors Barrie Houlihan and Borja Garcia of Loughborough University have issued a call for potential candidates that might be interested in applying for the studentship, which has the provisional title ‘A governance audit of sports organisations’. This is only a first call in order for the professors to identify candidates that feel will have a chance in the university-wide selection process and can be put forward by them to the University selection committee.