Dr. Melanie Lang
Assistant Director Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport, Department of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, UK.
Research, consultancy and training/education in athlete welfare, safeguarding, child protection, children's rights and gender-based violence in sport and leisure contexts. PhD (sociology). Ambassador for Freedom From Abuse.
Currently leading projects on the effectiveness of peer-led abuse education (funded by the International Olympic Committee Research Centre) and the prevalence of child abuse in sport (funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme).
Member of the Council of Europe/ European Union pool of experts on sexual violence in sport, see: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/pss/researchers-/-academics, the NSPCC Sport England Child Protection in Sport Unit Research Evidence Advisory Group, and the UK Coaching Safeguarding Talented and Elite Children Research Group.
Editor of 'The Handbook of Athlete Welfare' (Routledge, 2021), 'Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice' (Routledge, 2015), and 'Bullying and the Abuse of Power' (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010).
Phone: 01695 584302
Address: Social Sciences Department
Creative Edge
Edge Hill University
St. Helen's Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
Research, consultancy and training/education in athlete welfare, safeguarding, child protection, children's rights and gender-based violence in sport and leisure contexts. PhD (sociology). Ambassador for Freedom From Abuse.
Currently leading projects on the effectiveness of peer-led abuse education (funded by the International Olympic Committee Research Centre) and the prevalence of child abuse in sport (funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme).
Member of the Council of Europe/ European Union pool of experts on sexual violence in sport, see: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/pss/researchers-/-academics, the NSPCC Sport England Child Protection in Sport Unit Research Evidence Advisory Group, and the UK Coaching Safeguarding Talented and Elite Children Research Group.
Editor of 'The Handbook of Athlete Welfare' (Routledge, 2021), 'Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice' (Routledge, 2015), and 'Bullying and the Abuse of Power' (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010).
Phone: 01695 584302
Address: Social Sciences Department
Creative Edge
Edge Hill University
St. Helen's Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
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The book is divided into two parts. Part One critically analyses current child protection and safeguarding policy and practice in sport across a range of countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, China and Germany, providing a global context for current policy and practice. This represents the most comprehensive review to date of the landscape of child protection and safeguarding in sport and provides a starting point for critical international comparisons. Part Two explores a range of issues related to child protection and safeguarding in sport, including many not covered in previous books, such as emotional abuse, injury and over-training. While in many instances the impetus for policy in this area has arisen from concerns about sexual abuse, the second part of this book therefore opens up a broader, more holistic approach to child and athlete welfare.
By bringing together many of the leading researchers working in child and athlete protection in sport from around the world, this book is important reading for all advanced students, researchers, policy-makers or practitioners working in youth sport, physical education, sports coaching, coach education or child protection.
Publications by Dr. Melanie Lang
Co-authored with Dr Joanne McVeigh, Edge Hill University
abuse in English sport is significantly underreported but that reports per
annum increased over the period.
leads athletes to submit to intensive training protocols and coaches to perform according to norms dictated by discourses of child safety. For athletes, submitting to these normalised training protocols increases risk of short and long-term injury and psychological harm. Meanwhile, working in a climate where discourses of child safety position every act of childadult touch as suspicious leaves coaches feeling resentful, angry and constrained and denies them and their swimmers one of the most fulfilling, rewarding relationships available: that between a coach and an athlete.
The book is divided into two parts. Part One critically analyses current child protection and safeguarding policy and practice in sport across a range of countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, China and Germany, providing a global context for current policy and practice. This represents the most comprehensive review to date of the landscape of child protection and safeguarding in sport and provides a starting point for critical international comparisons. Part Two explores a range of issues related to child protection and safeguarding in sport, including many not covered in previous books, such as emotional abuse, injury and over-training. While in many instances the impetus for policy in this area has arisen from concerns about sexual abuse, the second part of this book therefore opens up a broader, more holistic approach to child and athlete welfare.
By bringing together many of the leading researchers working in child and athlete protection in sport from around the world, this book is important reading for all advanced students, researchers, policy-makers or practitioners working in youth sport, physical education, sports coaching, coach education or child protection.
Co-authored with Dr Joanne McVeigh, Edge Hill University
abuse in English sport is significantly underreported but that reports per
annum increased over the period.
leads athletes to submit to intensive training protocols and coaches to perform according to norms dictated by discourses of child safety. For athletes, submitting to these normalised training protocols increases risk of short and long-term injury and psychological harm. Meanwhile, working in a climate where discourses of child safety position every act of childadult touch as suspicious leaves coaches feeling resentful, angry and constrained and denies them and their swimmers one of the most fulfilling, rewarding relationships available: that between a coach and an athlete.
established partnership links with several sporting and non-sporting organisations, all of whom firmly believe in the development of young disabled people as sporting advocates.