The Centre brings together sport philosophers, sport ethicists, MAISI students, doctoral students, visiting scholars and associated members to promote collaborative research on contemporary ethical and conceptual issues in sport.
The mission of the centre is:
- to promote collaborative research on contemporary ethical problems in sport.
- to contribute to public discussion and policy development at national and international levels;
- to develop research outputs of high quality;
- to participate in national and international sports ethics projects.
The team focuses on applied sports philosophy and applied sports ethics, especially topics such as the categorization of athletes in sport (sex, age, weight, dis/ability), issues in parasport, contemporary problems in female sport, ethical problems in the use of social media by athletes, corruption in sport, sport and technology, democratic governance of sport organizations, moral education and theory of Olympism, body ecology and the quality of athletes’ experiencing in sport, and ethics of the outdoors and martial arts/combat sports.
Irena P. Martínková
Jim Parry
Klara Daďová
Michal Vágner
Whitney Bragagnolo: |
Sport Integrity Responsibilities of Mega Event Bidding Hosts & Owners |
Jacob Giesbrecht: |
Social Media and Freedom of Expression in Sport |
Olivia Howe: |
Oppression versus Empowerment: A Philosophical Analysis of Female Participation in Sport |
Breana McCoy: |
Towards Democratic Sports Systems – Examining the Concept of Stakeholder Democracy |
Qian Wang: |
Temporality and embodiment of the human being in contemporary sport and movement practices |
Anna van Dijk: |
Towards Sustainable Paralympic Games |
Ladislav Mravec: |
Threats to sport – gambling, match-fixing and corruption |
Petr Kříž: |
Phenomenological understanding of the body, movement and pain, and its consequences for practice |
Matyáš Kubů |
Gender a pohlaví ve sportu a v tělesné výchově – inkluze transgender osob do sportovního prostředí (Gender and sex in sport and physical education – inclusion of transgender people in the sport environment) |
Michal Zapala: |
Filosofické a etické nahlížení hodnot ve sportu skrze vzdělávací proces (Philosophical and ethical view of values in sport through educational proces) |
Theo Poliopoulos: |
Doctoral candidate in Univ of Peloponnese, Greece (co-supervisor J. Parry) 2017-2022 (PhD. awarded) Good governance in football organisations from an ethical perspective and a proposal for Greek football’s reformation |
Damien Parry: |
Doctoral candidate in Univ of Canberra, Australia (co-supervisor J. Parry) 2021-present The inclusion/fairness dichotomy: Understanding the tension between inclusion and fairness within sport |
Neslihan Feliz |
(Turkey) 2022-23, post-doc |
Mateus Ludwiczak |
(Poland) 2022-23, doctoral placement |
Alberto Reppold |
Professor, UFRGS Porto Alegre, Brazil |
(Book project collaborator) |
Pete Allison |
Penn State University, USA |
(Book project collaborator) |
Miroslav Imbrisevic |
Heythrop College, University of London, UK |
(Co-author) |
Simon Robinson |
Professor, Leeds Met Univ, UK |
(Co-author) |
Lynley Anderson |
Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand |
(Co-author) |
Taryn Knox |
University of Otago, New Zealand |
(Co-author) |
Marcus Campos |
Post-doctoral fellow, KU Leuven |
(Co-author) |
Catherine Ordway |
Assoc Prof at University of Canberra, Australia |
(Co-supervisor, Co-author) |
Kostas Georgiadis |
Prof at University of the Peloponnese, Greece |
(Co-supervisor) |
Mike McNamee |
Professor at KU Leuven and Swansea Uni, Belgium/UK |
(Co-author and MAiSI director) |
Angela Schneider |
Professor at Western Uni, Canada |
(Prague MAiSI teacher) |
Sigmund Loland |
Professor at NIH Oslo, Norway |
(Prague MAiSI teacher) |
Silvia Camporesi |
Assoc Prof at Kings College, London, UK |
(Prague MAiSI teacher) |
Andy Harvey |
Assoc Prof at Swansea, Wales, UK |
(Prague MAiSI teacher) |
Cesar Torres |
Professor, SUNY Brockport, USA |
(Prague MAiSI teacher) |
Collaborative Teaching 2020-2022
MAOS, University of the Peloponnese, Greece - Master’s Degree Programme in Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Organization and Management of Olympic Events. Teaching Unit M1.4 - Philosophy and Ethics
MAHPA, University of Foro Italico, Rome, Italy - Master’s Degree Programme in Health and Physical Activity. Teaching on Research Methodology module.
International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, Greece – teaching at various sessions: Postgraduate Session, Main International Session, and Session for NOCs and NOAs.
Projects
Collaboration (teaching and admin) on the Erasmus Mundus MA in Sports Ethics and Integrity (2017-2025), alongside 5 partners: KU Leuven, JGU Mainz, UPF Barcelona, UoPeloponnese, Swansea, UK. Funded by a €7million EU grant.
Research collaboration within the Cooperatio project (funded by Charles University) on fundamental ethical problems of contemporary sport, from the perspective of analytic philosophy
Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK) funded projects 2022-2023
Whitney Bragagnolo: |
Power, Sex & Corruption in Sport |
Breana McCoy: |
Towards Democratic Sports Systems – Examining the Concept of Stakeholder Democracy |
Qian Wang: |
What does the body mean to us? Merleau-Ponty's concept of Embodiment in understanding esports and traditional Chinese movement practices |
Post-GAUK funded project 2022-2023
Olivia Howe: |
The Impact of Coercive Sex Segregation in Women's "Basket" Sports |
Strategic partnership projects of Charles University with University of Melbourne 2018-2022
2024
Martínková, I. & Wang, Q. (2023). A phenomenological perspective on embodiment in sports and esports. In A. Hofmann, M. Reeves & P. Camara (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Esports. London: Routledge. (in print)
2023
2022
Martínková, I. & J. Parry (2022). Mixed Martial Arts is not a Martial Art. In Holt, J. & Ramsay, M. (Ed.), The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon (pp. 4-16). London: Routledge.
2021
Parry, J. (2021). Esports Will Not Be at the Olympics. Journal of Olympic Studies 2 (2), 1–13.
Quay, J., I. Martínková & J. Parry (2021). Phenomenological Human Science Via Phenomenological Philosophy: A Phenomenomethodological Approach to Education Research. In E. Creely, J. Southcott, K. Carabott and D. Lyons (Eds.), Phenomenological Inquiry in Education: Theories, Practices, Provocations and Directions (pp. 52-67). London: Routledge.
2020
Parry, J. & P. Allison (Eds.) (2020). Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education. London: Routledge.
Reppold, A., I. Martínková & J. Parry (Eds.) (2020). PE & Sport Research in Brazil and the Czech Republic. Porto Alegre: UFRGS Press.
2019
2018
Robinson, S. & J. Parry (2018). The impact of corruption on individual athletes, teams, and organisations. In L. A. Kihl (Ed.). Corruption in Sport: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (pp. 91-109). London: Routledge.
Andrieu, B., J. Parry, A. Porrovecchio, O. Sirost (Eds.) (2018). Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure. London: Routledge.
Martínková, I. & J. Parry (2018). Heidegger, sport and body ecology. In B. Andrieu, J Parry, A. Porrovecchio, O. Sirost (Eds.), Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure (pp. 136-149). London: Routledge.
2017