The Centre's Mission is:

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 and leisure.
• Ensure that significant research findings are translated into practical outputs and guidelines that help inform disability practitioners and medical practitioners attached to sports/ rehabilitation centres both in the UK and Internationally.
• Enhance the national and International focus for disabled sport and leisure.
• Ensure that information and support is provided through the PHC website, newsletters and seminars/workshops.

The key objectives of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC), are to improve knowledge and understanding of Paralympic sport.  As well as researching high performance disability sport, the PHC will promote the substantial health and quality of life benefits that can be gained through participation in grassroots disability sports.

This will be achieved through educational initiatives and applied collaborative research projects coordinated by experts from the sports and social sciences within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS) at Loughborough University.

As key PHC staff have focused their research interests on Paralympic Sports, the centre will work closely with the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and other partners, such as the International Network for the Advancement of Paralympic Sports through Science (INAPSS), that has been established to extend the work of the International Paralympic Committee. During the INAPSS meeting of December 2007 it was decided that the PHC for disability sport was accepted as a satellite center. As a satellite center, the PHC will be invited to participate in ongoing INAPSS projects.

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Website photographs courtesy of Nik Diaper from the English Institute of Sport, Loughborough University, John Lenton and other PHC staff.