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Creating more active neighbourhoods for older people

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

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Dementia and sport in the spotlight

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

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New inclusive sport of ‘Cibleball’ goes global

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

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Closure of facilities poised to increase sporting divide

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

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OSS increases research expertise

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

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IAIN MORE: An Appreciation

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

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Scotland’s great outdoors providing paths to healthy Covid recovery

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