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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 Ferguson
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 Ferguson
David Ferguson23 November 2020
Community Sport DeliveryOSS News PostsSport Participation

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 Ferguson
David Ferguson20 November 2020
OSS News PostsSchool & Community AccessSport Participation

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 Ferguson
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 Ferguson
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 Ferguson
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 Ferguson
David Ferguson10 November 2020
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Irish government invests in sport to improve Covid-19 health

THE IRISH Government has agreed a funding package of £76m (85m Euros) to sport as recognition that sport in all its forms is playing a…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson2 November 2020
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School sport helps children to reach potential in classroom

TAKING part in school sport can improve a child's educational attainment, but Scotland appears to be failing to grasp this as it continues to leave…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson29 September 2020
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Community sport can prevent virus spread

ONE OF Scottish rugby's leading club coaches has called for the Scottish Government to grasp the ability of community sport to help stop the spread…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson25 September 2020
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