www.sportdevelopment.info

Sports development is an equivocally contested term.

It can mean the development of sport for sports sake and equally the use of sport and physical activity opportunities for the development of society - sport as a social instrument.

Our Document library contains a variety of Sports Development related publications and  our Ruff guides are designed to introduce you to a Sports development topic area with directional signs to publications that may help on your research or interest journey. Whether you are a student, a practitioner, policy maker or just interested; we may have something for you.

This new site replaces our old one at sportdevelopment.org.uk. Launched in September 2009 we have updated our resources and, we hope, made it easier to find sports development related publications by bringing what we find into one place. By putting these documents together we have been able to suggest relationships between them so that students and practitioners are able to better understand a topic area. We are grateful to the academic experts that have provided Ruff Guides that introduce topics and provide a platform for students' research.

We are directly linked to over 100 Universities, Colleges, Schools and Sports organisations Worldwide principally in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Eire, with growing links in the "Global South".  We have over 200 academic members, 2000+ students, 1500 PE teachers and 3500 sports development industry colleagues as members.

The HE Academy says: sportdevelopment.info has been totally rewritten and upgraded and has become the invaluable resource for all students studying Sports Development. It is fast becoming the first place students and staff researching the subject area go for information. Excellent new ‘Ruff guides’ to the subject area have been provided.