RECENT Scotland women's football manager Shelley Kerr, political and finance expert Geoff Aberdein and leading European researcher Geoff Nichols have joined the Observatory for Sport…
David Ferguson15 January 2021
The OSS will launch a first major research project into sport and disability in Scotland in 20 years when it partners up with Scottish Disability…
David Ferguson18 December 2020
The Observatory for Sport in Scotland is helping a housing organisation to investigate and trial interventions that could create more healthy and active neighbourhoods. The…
David Ferguson4 December 2020
DEMENTIA has attracted global headlines in 2020 with famous sports people such as Sir Bobby Charlton and Roy Laidlaw revealing diagnoses, and a number of…
David Ferguson23 November 2020
Boccia has become one of the most popular games in the UK with its ability to enable people of all abilities to enjoy sporting competition,…
David Ferguson20 November 2020
By RYAN BROWN (OSS Research Assistant) So after a week when Scotland celebrated winning a football match that took the country's men's team to a…
David Ferguson18 November 2020
THE VALUE of sport is most obvious not in sport itself but in wider society, across health and wellbeing, education and the economy. And no-one knows…
David Ferguson16 November 2020
THE OSS board and staff were saddened by the death of key adviser, inspiration and guiding light, Iain More, after a long and courageous battle…
David Ferguson15 November 2020
New research analysing Covid risks around hill-walking and mountaineering could provide the Scottish population with a key route out of the pandemic. Levels of outdoor…
David Ferguson10 November 2020
