Written by Dr Dominic Malcolm In 2021 concussion in sport began to be taken seriously in British politics. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has staged two concussion virtual summits and appointed its first Ministerial Adviser. The DCMS…
Dr Tom Phillips (Lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia) has published an engaging new article in The Conversation entitled 'Why it's time the UK took wrestling seriously'. As well as mentioning Health and Wellbeing project partner Wrestling…
Following the publication of the APPG’s Report into Professional Wrestling, wrestling was front page of some of the UK’s leading newspapers and media outlets. You can follow the ongoing conversations on the APPG’s twitter handle @appgwrestling @appgwrestling
Concussion has become a contentious topic in global sport, with footballers attributing brain injury to heading the ball and legal cases being brought against rugby union authorities. Initial data analysis would suggest that in wrestling too concussion is a serious…
We have recently completed the interviews for the Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling project. We have spoken to wrestlers, promoters and referees. Thank you to everyone who has so generously contributed to this project. It has been so encouraging…
British MPs Alex Davies-Jones and Mark Fletcher led the All Party Parliamentary Group for professional wrestling with the express aims of promoting, supporting and raising awareness of professional wrestling; working with the industry to improve it and to build confidence;…
Loughborough University released the following press release about the Health and Wellbeing project: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2020/september/study-aims-to-improve-wrestlers-health-wellbeing/