Publications
Our members are at the forefront of research on children’s rights in sport. Links to some of their publications are available here.
- Child labour in sport, Protecting the rights of childs athletes. 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2022
- Human rights in youth sport : a critical review of children's rights in competitive sports, Paulo David, 2004, Routledge, London
- Article 31 : the right to leisure, play and culture, A commentary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Paulo David,2006, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden ; Boston
- "Broken kids, the untold story of young athletes" (documentary 52min english)
- "Endgame, breaking the silence" (documentary 52min english) password : CHAMPIONS
- Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, pp 1–12. Sage
- Eliasson, I. (2025). ‘I Hope That Ends’: Exploring Emotional Abuse in Non-Elite Youth Sports
- Lang, M. (ed.) (2021) Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare. London: Routledge
- Lang, M. & Hartill, M. (eds.) (2015) Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice. London: Routledge
- Matthews, C. R., Barker-Ruchti, N., Coates, E., Lang, M. & Hardwicke, J. (2024) Children’s rights, human development and play: Rejecting performance-orientated youth sport. Sport, Education and Society. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2024.2385556. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2385556
- Purdy, L. & Lang, M. (2024) Imagining sport in Lithuania: Young athletes’ views on safe sport. European Journal for Sport and Society. DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2024.2335574.
- Lang, M. & McMahon, J. (2023) Child abuse in sport education contexts. In: Girginov, V. & Marttinen, R. (eds.) Routledge Resources Online: Sports Studies. London: Taylor & Francis. Available: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?context=rross&topic=448
- Lang, M. (2022) Advancing children’s rights in sport: Coaching, childhood agency and the participatory agenda. Sports Coaching Review. 11 (1), 41-63