Peter Harrison Awarded CBE by the Queen for Services to Charity

The PHC is delighted to learn that Peter Harrison has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours’ list, for charitable services through the Peter Harrison Foundation. The exciting news that Mr Harrison has been made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) was released on the 12th June 2010.

Peter Harrison has been a great supporter of Disability Sport for many years.  In 2004, the Peter Harrison Foundation awarded a grant to a team at Loughborough University to establish a Centre for Disability Sport.  In 2005 the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport was launched and the Foundation has continued to pledge its support.

Peter Harrison has also had a considerable impact on wheelchair basketball and his funding has enabled the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) to set up a Junior League. 

To see the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2010 see:  http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_188464

To find out more about the charitable work done by Peter Harrison please visit the Foundation’s website at: http://www.peterharrisonfoundation.org/index.htm

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The Director of the Centre is Dr Vicky Tolfrey, and the Deputy Director is Dr David Howe.

Mission:

To improve knowledge about Paralympic sport and to promote the substantial health and quality of life benefits that can be gained through participation in disability sports.

The Centre's Aims are to:

Generate and extend the knowledge in disability sport through applied research.

Assist in the development of evidence-based practice in disability sport.

Ensure that significant research findings are translated into practical outputs and guidelines that help inform disability practitioners attached to sports both in the UK and Internationally.

Enhance the national focus for disabled sport.

Ensure that information and support is provided through a website, newsletters and seminars.

The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport in 2010.

The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) has two strands of research that are incorporated into the Centre’s Aims and Objectives. Research focuses on:

• Sport Science - led by Dr Vicky Tolfrey - with research assistants John Lenton and Christof Leicht
• Sport Culture and Policy - led by Dr David Howe - with Associated staff Dr Brett Smith

Summer Newsletter 2010 - latest edition published 6 July 2010

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The PHC is pleased to announce the following Research Grants, Projects and Collaborations: 

• Dr Brett Smith has been awarded a grant by the Canadian Health Research Institute (CHRI) to carry out research on 'Advancing methods and frameworks for understanding gender, disability, and transition to adult life'. The purpose of the study is to develop a conceptual framework and methods for analysing the intersecting effects of disability, gender, and emerging adulthood on physical, social and psychological health of disabled young men. For further details about the project please click here.

• The PHC is collaborating with the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association to help deliver testing and monitoring services as part of their World Class Performance Sports Science and Medicine Strategy. The squad for the World Championships held in Birmingham later this year has just been announced. To see who has been selected follow this link: http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-mens-team-for-world-championships/

• The PHC is pleased to announce that they are soon to be working with Dr Scott Drawer, Head of Research and Innovation at UK Sport on a Showcase project. Further details will be found in the next newsletter.

• The PHC is collaborating with Chris West (PhD student) at Brunel University and are conducting a study in May with the wheelchair rugby squad.

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.  The PHC has also received excellent news that the Foundation has agreed to fund the PHC until February 2013. The implications of the continued funding will be fully discussed in the Winter Newsletter 2009.

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