Getting the Nation Moving: The Festival Effect

The Olympic and Paralympic Games can be used to encourage people to think about becoming more active. 1. Can the Olympic Games encourage physical activity among those who don't like sport? 2. how can the Games be promoted as being 'beyond sport' when they are an elite sport competition? 3. Does an emphasis on exercise and trying to persuade people to get healthy put some people off participating

Measuring an Olympic and Paralympic Effect on Sport Participation

An Olympic and Paralympic effect on sport participation has never been robustly measured. 1- Is it possible to find out whether Olympic and Paralympic Games have caused sport participation changes? 2- Can national surveys tell us if sport participation changes are due to the Games? 3- Can thinking about what might have happened without the Games help us to find out if there has been a Games effect on participation

Live Sites: Bringing Places to People

Live Sites can bring national festivals alive in local communities and promote community wellbeing 1- How can Live Sites help promote an inclusive ‘family model’ of community? 2- What strategies can bring places to people through Live Sites to promote community wellbeing? 3- How can local partners ensure Live Sites are seen as benefitting communities rather than commercial interests

The Games in Schools: PE & Cross Curricular Impacts

School-based initiatives are the most effective way to use the Games to engage and excite children and young people. 1- Can short school based initiatives have a longer-term impact on sport participation, learning and behaviour? 2- Are there Olympic and Paralympic themes beyond sport that can engage and excite children and young people? 3- Is it realistic to try to use the Games to get children and young people who don’t like sport to play more

A UK-Wide Legacy? Leveraging the Olympic and Paralympic Values.

The Olympic and Paralympic values can be used to help develop a UK-wide legacy. 1- Are the 2012 Games just about legacies in London, or can the rest of the country also benefit from the Games? 2- Why do politicians prefer to talk about UK-wide economic legacies rather than social and cultural legacies? 3- How valuable and important are social, cultural and health legacies in comparison to economic legacies

How Will We Know if the Games Benefit Young People?

The only effective way to find out if the Games benefit young people is to ask them. 1- Is it possible to find out whether the Olympic and Paralympic Games have benefitted young people? 2- Should Games organisers and politicians tell us more about how they are going to measure whether they have delivered their promises? 3- Why is using London 2012 to benefit young people important? Isn’t organising Games that people enjoy watching enough

Understanding Olympic Tourism Flows

The Olympic and Paralympic Games provide few direct tourism benefits outside the host city. 1- How valuable and useful are pre-Games predictions of Olympic tourism impacts that might take place? 2- Does it matter that the host city gets tourism benefits, but the rest of the host country often loses out? 3- How can Games hosts be persuaded to measure and account for negative and neutral tourism impacts

Paralympic Narratives- Perceptions of Disability

The Paralympic Games have the potential to change popular perceptions of disability. 1- Is the specific legacy potential of the Paralympic Games taken seriously by politicians and Games organisers? 2- Could stories about the Paralympic Games and disabled athletes have a negative impact on disabled people? 3- Is it asking too much of the Paralympic Games to change people’s attitudes towards disability

Inspiring Sport Participation: The Demonstration Effect.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games can inspire some people to play more sport. 1- Are politicians and Games organisers telling the whole story about sport participation legacies? 2- Is getting people who are already interested in sport to play more a good enough legacy? 3- Do the Olympic and Paralympic Games put some people off playing sport