Welcome to the Peter Harrison Centre Website

The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport in 2009.

In 2008 the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) celebrated its re-launch with a new set of Aims and Objectives and established two new strands of research on:

• Sport Science - led by Dr Vicky Tolfrey
• Sport Culture and Policy - led by Dr David Howe

2009 is a busy and exciting year for the PHC, as the Centre continues to develop the foundations of research and expertise that were laid down in 2008.

In 2008 the Peter Harrison Centre began its visiting scholar program. The inaugural visiting scholar was Dr Sean Tweedy from the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Tweedy's research interests are in classification and disability sport and he has held the CONROD Research Fellowship in Physical Activity and Disability in the school of Human Movement Studies at his University since 1997. He was the guest of the Centre from 18th to 24th January 2009. The week was extremely productive and a number of projects were discussed with group members of the PHC. Click here to read the full article by Dr Vicky Tolfrey on Dr Sean Tweedy's visit.

The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport would like to express its gratitude to the Peter Harrison Foundation and the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University who have supported the research centre from its initial conception through to the re-launch of its second phase.

Website photographs courtesy of Nik Diaper from the English Institute of Sport and Loughborough University.