Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence
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"Iconoclast" | Prof Applied Policy Sciences | Senior Pro VC (Research, Enterprise & Bus Devt) @CanterburyCCUni | Strategic Dir @spear_News | Ed @JnlSportTourism
CanterburyChristChurchUniv. UK
Joined October 2010
Thank you #EASM2023 for the keynote invitation to discuss sport & climate change - a recording will be available soon @EASMBoard celebrates 30yrs in 2023, & I've been coming for 27yrs, since #EASM1996 in Montpellier - it was a fantastic honour to be asked: I hope I did you proud
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We're celebrating our best ever Knowledge Exchange Framework #KEF4 results with 2 top 20% rankings in Research Partnerships & Public & Community Engagement, supporting the University's prominent role in Kent & Medway & meaningful partnerships @ResEngland
https://t.co/IGXhb9u5iZ
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Canterbury Christ Church University is celebrating its strongest-ever performance in Research England’s latest Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
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Just two weeks ago from the Plenary Platform at @EASMBoard, I asked “Does Sport Care Enough about #ClimateChange?” https://t.co/0rzze7Z7Sq Clearly, in @FIFAcom’s case, the answer is “NO!” This 👇 is a ludicrous (and wholly hypocritical) decision. #EASM2023
‼️In My Opinion: "FIFA’s announcement to host the 2030 World Cup across 3 continents is at odds with their commitments to cut emissions." 📝University of Sussex researcher, Freddie Daley, says asking fans to fly around the world by plane is wrong.
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Couldn’t agree more, @IainLindsey - what these people share is that, in comparison to the general population, they are “freaks” with abnormal abilities and experiences about as far removed from the challenges of those who are inactive as it is possible to be.
Nonsensical (once again) that achievements in the completely abnormal field of elite sport is basis for selection to a taskforce on physical activity Rather, it's input from people with lived experiences of challenges of physical INactivity & inequalities that's really needed.
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Thanks @danroan - the problem is structural rather than the emissions of this or that event... & carbon emissions of everyday sport participation (due to sheer volume of travel generated) dwarf that of even the largest sport event or league. Sport needs a transformational rethink
@ProfMikeWeed @ProfRob_Wilson @EASMBoard To be fair professor in here we do make the point that by Fifa's own estimation, the 2026 World Cup will be the most emitting tournament it has ever staged https://t.co/4vkRJLtTLr
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Sport presented as the victim, @ProfRob_Wilson & @danroan when really its the villain - as I showed at @EASMBoard's #EASM2023 this AM, sport's carbon footprint exceeds that to be expected of a sector of its size by at least 50% - part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Here’s one for @ProfMikeWeed. Could climate change impact the 2026 World Cup? Or should the question be; could the 2026 World Cup impact climate change. ‘Sport is sport washing itself’. Very timely piece after todays keynote address at #EASM23 @EASMBoard.
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The @EASMBoard organisers have videoed the #EASM2023 keynotes, and will be making them available next week. I'll post a link in my feed when they're available.
@diti121688 @ProfMikeWeed The last few slides here highlight Mike’s main points - sport is responsible, needs to do much more and the suggestions need to be radical #EASM2023
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“Thinking the unthinkable”. What does sport look like if it takes climate change seriously? @ProfMikeWeed @ #easm2023
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“I hate sport!”. The keynote of @ProfMikeWeed on sport and climate change @EASMBoard questions sport researchers’ premise that sport is always doing good. #EASM2023
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Five years on from my last @EASMBoard keynote at @EASM2018, why is #CallingBullOnSport still necessary? Find out about the things sport doesn’t want to take responsibility for in my #EASM2023 keynote at 9am tomorrow (Friday) morning.
Some questions I’ll be exploring in Friday morning’s @EASMBoard keynote: (i) Does sport disproportionately impact climate change? (ii) Can sport combat climate change? (iii) What is sport’s appetite for change? #EASM2023
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Some questions I’ll be exploring in Friday morning’s @EASMBoard keynote: (i) Does sport disproportionately impact climate change? (ii) Can sport combat climate change? (iii) What is sport’s appetite for change? #EASM2023
‘It’s done! Friday morning’s @EASMBoard Keynote is all ready …and would you like to guess the answers to the questions? It’s not too far from “NO” and “NOT ENOUGH” #EASM2023
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‘It’s done! Friday morning’s @EASMBoard Keynote is all ready …and would you like to guess the answers to the questions? It’s not too far from “NO” and “NOT ENOUGH” #EASM2023
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That’ll be around half the current recommended weekly number of active minutes (77 vs 150) - much more achievable, and 10% of early deaths saved is a huge public health gain. So why do ‘expert groups’ insist on persisting with a completely ineffectual 150mins/week recommendation?
An 11-minute daily walk could stop 10% of early deaths – study
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👉"Sitting in this Presentation will shorten your life by a minute!" 👉"Bacon & sausages at breakfast might as well be 3 cigarettes!" 👉"For women, getting fat is as dangerous as terrorists!" ? Or is that hysterical moralistic scaremongering ? 👇FIND OUT👇 https://t.co/JwwmbbczZC
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A podium finish (3rd place) for the @CanterburyCCUni SMT+ team at @CCCUSport’s Vice Chancellor’s Christmas Challenge🎄🎅🏅🏅🏅🤾♀️🤾🤾♂️ As always, a fantastically well organised event for our Uni community to make us #CCCUproud Here’s the team selfie - we’re ‘flushed’ with success!
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