The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which
poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society …

Over the last decade a great deal of work has examined major sport event legacies and
event leverage. Much of this work has involved Olympic studies and this paper seeks to add …

This paper examines the service dimensions required to be inclusive of people with access
needs within a major-sport event context. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of …

This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and
implementation of disability sport events. It draws insights from a major international …

Drawing on a case study of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, this article
examines the extent to which the hosting of an integrated parasport event where able …

People with disabilities are often the recipients of volunteer services but are rarely
considered as a potential volunteer resource, such as in sport events where volunteers are …

This chapter takes as its central focus the ways in which broadcast media frame Paralympic
sport and the extent to which new and emerging social media technologies and platforms …

This article presents an examination of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games'
volunteers who identified as having access needs and/or disabilities. The methodology …

Attitudes, and attitudinal change towards persons with disabilities, is an important area of
research as it can potentially enable greater understanding of the constraints that may …

The proximity of the Paralympic Games Rio 2016 opens the discussion about the possibility
of building a career in Paralympic sport. This study aims to present the characteristics and …