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
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
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 Ferguson2 November 2020
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 Ferguson29 September 2020
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 Ferguson25 September 2020
