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Brian Wilson
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Latest papers
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods.
International review for the sociology of sport · 2023 · senior author
Female youths' perceptions of smoking in popular films.
Qualitative health research · 2007
Latest funding
- $34,596
Cycling Towards Change: Advancing Mobility Justice, Gender Equity, and Sustainable Development through Bicycles
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $44,284
Partnering for the Planet: Co-Creating Gender-Just Climate Solutions through Sport for Development and Peace
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $80,382
Wheels of Change? Exploring 'Bicycles for Development' for Women and Girls in the (Post-)Pandemic Contexts of Canada, Uganda and Nicaragua
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods.
Szto C, Wilson B
Female youths' perceptions of smoking in popular films.
Jetté S, Wilson B, Sparks R
Cycling Towards Change: Advancing Mobility Justice, Gender Equity, and Sustainable Development through Bicycles
Principal investigators: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.
Keywords: bicycles; mobility justice; gender equity; knowledge syntheses & mobilization; virtual networking; policy advocacy
Partnering for the Planet: Co-Creating Gender-Just Climate Solutions through Sport for Development and Peace
Principal investigators: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.
Keywords: feminist climate justice; sexual and gender-based violence; sport for development and peace; decolonial feminism; climate change activism; partnership; participatory action research; gender inequality; equity; transnational network
Wheels of Change? Exploring 'Bicycles for Development' for Women and Girls in the (Post-)Pandemic Contexts of Canada, Uganda and Nicaragua
Principal investigators: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.
Keywords: bicycles for development; gender-based violence; social entrepreneurship; environmental sustainability; COVID-19; sport; gender and development
Real Utopian experiments in environmentalist sport: a focus on golf
Principal investigators: Wilson, Brian S.
Keywords: environment; culture; politics; sport; leisure; tourism; management; sustainability; physical activity
Cycling against poverty: researching a sport for development movement and an object in/for development
Principal investigators: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.
Keywords: bicycles for development; sport for development; new materialism; multi-sited ethnography; postcolonial feminism; community-based research; Canada; Nicaragua; Uganda
Fostering sport-for-peace journalism and a role for sociologists of sport
Principal investigators: Wilson, Brian S.
Keywords: peace; conflict; violence; mass media; journalism; sport
Corporate environmentalism and the Canadian golf industry: examining industry responses to social, cultural, economic, and political pressures related to the environment
Principal investigators: Wilson, Brian S.
Keywords: consumer culture; sport; recreation; tourism; public policy; environment; political economy; organizational change
Connected youth: a study of youth-driven social movements, globalization, and community in the age of the internet
Principal investigators: Wilson, Brian S.
Keywords: youth culture; media; social movements; internet; globalization; community
Tobacco marketing, anti-smoking programmes and adolescent smoking culture
Principal investigators: Sparks, Robert
Keywords: tobacco control; youth culture; peer culture; tobacco marketing; anti-smoking campaigns
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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