First Gold of Summer as Parasports Celebrations Commence

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates Julie McElroy, the noted disability activist from Jordanhill in Glasgow, and her colleagues from the University of the West of Scotland research team on winning gold in the Research Impact Contribution at the Gamechanger Awards for her research project, Leveraging Parasports Events for Sustainable Community Participation; understands that this is the first comparative study of the social legacy of major sporting events, examining the impact of parasport being integrated into a mainstream sporting event; considers participation in sport to be an important issue related to disabled people, and looks forward to learning the final results of the research project following the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and the Pan American and Parapan American Games.

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SNP 24 Lab 3

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