Enhancing the Capacity of Victorian Community Sport to Tackle Racism
Research project
Enhance the Victorian sport sector’s capacity to address racism in community sport and embed anti-racist practices in administration and delivery.
Project Overview
Community sport performs a vital role in Australian society and contributes to physical and mental health, social inclusion and economic outcomes.
Despite its well-established value, community sport can also be a site where discrimination and exclusion occur. Racism is a pervasive form of discrimination that exists within Australian society and permeates community sport.
Experiencing racism has a profoundly harmful impact on the health of individuals targeted, as well as the local community in which the individual lives, studies, works or plays.
There has been very little data on the prevalence of racism in community sport and the experiences of those who have been impacted by racism in this context.
It is within this context that the research project Enhancing the Capacity of Victorian Community Sport to Tackle Racism was developed. Funded by a VicHealth Impact Research Grant, the research team consists of researchers from Monash, Melbourne and Victoria Universities.
The project has been undertaken in partnership with CMSport (Centre for Multicultural Youth) and Rob Hyatt (Koorie Heritage Trust). Its overarching aim is to enhance the Victorian sport sector’s capacity to act on and address racism in community sport, and embed anti-racist practices across sport administration and delivery.
