2023 PhD Students and Early Career Academics Research Grants awarded

The selected candidates and their chosen projects are:

1. Mathis VIERSAC (FRA)
   L'héritage des grands événements sportifs internationaux dans un pays non hôte: étude de cas des effets des Jeux Olympiques de Munich sur le sport en France Université Rennes 2 (France)

2. Caryce Chepchirchir TIROP (KEN)
   Kenya at the Olympics: Narrating the Nation through the Olympic Games and Olympism (1964-2016) Stanford University (USA)

3. James IVEY (UK)
   France, Africa, and Sport in the post-Montreal era University of California San Diego (USA)

4. Florent LEFEVRE (FRA)
   De 1968 à 1995, l’évolution au fil des années des relations entre le CIO et l’ACNOE : de l’aversion de Brundage à l’amitié de Samaranch Université de Reims (France)

5. Casper VOYLES (USA)
   Assessing the impact of the Gay Games on sexual and gender minorities within the host country and abroad Drexel University (USA)

The chosen candidates benefit from a grant which allows them to carry out their research project and, if relevant, to consult The Olympic Studies Centre’s resources in Lausanne (Switzerland). The results of their research must be submitted to the OSC at the end of 2023.

22 candidates from 15 countries and 4 continents applied

For this 24^th edition of the programme, 15 applications were submitted by doctoral students and 7 by early career academics.

Background of the programme

The PhD Students and Early Career Academics Grant Programme is one of the two research programmes that has been organised by the OSC, aiming to support Olympic-related academic research since 1999. It contributes to promote the presence of Olympic studies in the universities by reaching out to the next generation of professors.

What is the selection process?

The grant holders were selected by a committee of academic experts renowned for the quality of their research linked to Olympism and/or their involvement in Olympic studies. The selection committee for the 2023 edition of the programme comprised the following members: Mahfoud Amara (Qatar University, Qatar), Dikaia Chatziefstathiou (Canterbury Christ Church University, Great Britain), Marion Keim (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Sigmund Loland (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway), Hisashi Sanada (Tsukuba University, Japan), Tracy Taylor (RMIT University, Australia) and Paul Wylleman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) as well as OSC representatives.

Other research grant opportunities

University professors, lecturers and research fellows who have completed their doctorate and who currently hold an academic/research appointment covering the period of the grant are eligible to apply to the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme.

This programme aims to promote advanced research by established researchers with a humanities or social sciences perspective in priority fields of research, which are identified annually by the IOC.

The full list of research projects funded by The Olympic Studies Centre since the creation of its grant programmes in 1999 is available here.

For more information on The Olympic Studies Centre and its programmes and services, visit its website or contact studies.centre@olympic.org. To discover the full OSC’s collections including 38,000 publications and 1.5km of IOC historical archives, visit the Olympic World Library.

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