How has the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown changed the nation's enthusiasm for and attitude to jogging? That is the question being asked by University of…
David Ferguson11 January 2021
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
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
By DAVID FERGUSON Sport activity in Scotland is continuing to become the preserve of more affluent people and more distant from those living in deprived…
David Ferguson18 September 2020
THE OSS hosted a series of six fortnightly webinars in response to the lockdown imposed across Scotland to deal with the spread of the coronavirus…
David Ferguson26 June 2020
Former defenders make up the highest percentage of coaches in professional football, and goalkeepers provide the lowest, according to the latest CIES Football Observatory Report. The CIES…
David Ferguson22 June 2020
What is the emotional culture at your club - fun-loving or apathy? Are there too many paid 'professionals' in Scottish sport? How do sports cope…
David Ferguson10 June 2020
On Global Running Day, appropriately, OSS has discovered research that suggests that more people have spent lockdown running and more youngsters across the UK are…
David Ferguson3 June 2020
Nearly 1,000 people from across Scotland and further afield joined the latest OSS webinar, on 'School Sport and PE', and many took confidence from hearing…
David Ferguson27 May 2020
