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Sport Sector
The NWUA sport sector agenda covers three key areas of interest:
Sport Industry Sector
This aspect of the NWUA sport agenda is focused on facilitating strategic
academic engagement with the regional sport industry sector across the
research, innovation, skills and knowledge transfer agendas. Iain Adams,
University of Central Lancashire, is the Sport Academic Advisor to NWUA, with
this expertise supplemented by an electronic network of wider academic
expertise.
Key areas of engagement include working with the
NWDA
sector manager to facilitate HE sector input into the developing Regional
Sports Strategy, and providing HE representation on the
Sport & Leisure Sector Skills & Productivity Alliance (SALSPA),
facilitating HE sector input into identifying and addressing the higher level
skills needs of the regional sector.
Sport England Regional Agenda
NWUA also has an interest in the
Sport England North West
agenda, with a focus on working to understand and maximise the contribution of
the HE sector to the sport participation, physical activity and workforce
development agendas. NWUA works in close liaison with the regional
University and College Sport
Chair and sport professionals across the member institutions to facilitate a
coherent and complementary HE approach to the Sport England regional
agenda.
2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games
NWUA also has a role in ensuring the HE sector in the region is aware of
emerging opportunities associated with the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games
and, where appropriate, facilitates collective HE engagement. Within this
context NWUA, on behalf of the fifteen member institutions, is engaged at both
a national and regional level with 2012 Games structures. At the regional level
NWUA provides HE representation on the North West Steering Group for the 2012
Games, which is part of the
LOCOG
Nations & Regions structure; through this group NWUA is working to identify
and exploit opportunities for a North West HE sector contribution to the
regional legacy framework. At a
national level NWUA engages with
Podium, the national FE and HE unit for the
2012 Games. To facilitate communication, dissemination and engagement across
the North West HEIs a NWUA 2012 Network has been established.
Sector Research Capability Mapping
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