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Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence

@profmikeweed

"Iconoclast" | Prof Applied Policy Sciences | Senior Pro VC (Research, Enterprise & Bus Devt) @CanterburyCCUni | Strategic Dir @spear_News | Ed @JnlSportTourism

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šŸ‘‰"Sitting in this Presentation will shorten your life by a minute!" šŸ‘‰"Bacon & sausages at breakfast might as well be 3 cigarettes!" šŸ‘‰"For women, getting fat is as dangerous as terrorists!" ? Or is that hysterical moralistic scaremongering ? šŸ‘‡FIND OUTšŸ‘‡ youtube.com/watch?v=OHcOiF…

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A podium finish (3rd place) for the Canterbury Christ Church University SMT+ team at Christ Church Sport & Active Health’s Vice Chancellor’s Christmas ChallengešŸŽ„šŸŽ…šŸ…šŸ…šŸ…šŸ¤¾ā€ā™€ļøšŸ¤¾šŸ¤¾ā€ā™‚ļø As always, a fantastically well organised event for our Uni community to make us #CCCUproud Here’s the team selfie - we’re ā€˜flushed’ with success!

A podium finish (3rd place) for the <a href="/CanterburyCCUni/">Canterbury Christ Church University</a> SMT+ team at <a href="/CCCUSport/">Christ Church Sport & Active Health</a>’s Vice Chancellor’s Christmas ChallengešŸŽ„šŸŽ…šŸ…šŸ…šŸ…šŸ¤¾ā€ā™€ļøšŸ¤¾šŸ¤¾ā€ā™‚ļø
As always, a fantastically well organised event for our Uni community to make us #CCCUproud 
Here’s the team selfie - we’re ā€˜flushed’ with success!
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That’ll be around half the current recommended weekly number of active minutes (77 vs 150) - much more achievable, and 10% of early deaths saved is a huge public health gain. So why do ā€˜expert groups’ insist on persisting with a completely ineffectual 150mins/week recommendation?

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ā€˜It’s done! Friday morning’s EASM Keynote is all ready …and would you like to guess the answers to the questions? It’s not too far from ā€œNOā€ and ā€œNOT ENOUGHā€ #EASM2023

ā€˜It’s done!
Friday morning’s <a href="/EASMBoard/">EASM</a> Keynote is all ready
…and would you like to guess the answers to the questions?
It’s not too far from ā€œNOā€ and ā€œNOT ENOUGHā€
#EASM2023
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Some questions I’ll be exploring in Friday morning’s EASM keynote: (i) Does sport disproportionately impact climate change? (ii) Can sport combat climate change? (iii) What is sport’s appetite for change? #EASM2023

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Five years on from my last EASM keynote at EASM Conference 2018, why is #CallingBullOnSport still necessary? Find out about the things sport doesn’t want to take responsibility for in my #EASM2023 keynote at 9am tomorrow (Friday) morning.

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ā€œI hate sport!ā€. ⁦⁦⁦The keynote of ⁦Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence⁩ on sport and climate change ⁦EASM⁩ questions sport researchers’ premise that sport is always doing good. #EASM2023

ā€œI hate sport!ā€. ⁦⁦⁦The keynote of ⁦<a href="/ProfMikeWeed/">Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence</a>⁩ on sport and climate change ⁦<a href="/EASMBoard/">EASM</a>⁩ questions sport researchers’ premise that sport is always doing good. #EASM2023
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The EASM organisers have videoed the #EASM2023 keynotes, and will be making them available next week. I'll post a link in my feed when they're available.

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Sport presented as the victim, Prof. Rob Wilson āš½ļøšŸ’· & Dan Roan when really its the villain - as I showed at EASM's #EASM2023 this AM, sport's carbon footprint exceeds that to be expected of a sector of its size by at least 50% - part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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Thanks Dan Roan - the problem is structural rather than the emissions of this or that event... & carbon emissions of everyday sport participation (due to sheer volume of travel generated) dwarf that of even the largest sport event or league. Sport needs a transformational rethink

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Couldn’t agree more, Iain Lindsey - what these people share is that, in comparison to the general population, they are ā€œfreaksā€ with abnormal abilities and experiences about as far removed from the challenges of those who are inactive as it is possible to be.

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Just two weeks ago from the Plenary Platform at EASM, I asked ā€œDoes Sport Care Enough about #ClimateChange?ā€ x.com/profmikeweed/s… Clearly, in FIFA’s case, the answer is ā€œNO!ā€ This šŸ‘‡ is a ludicrous (and wholly hypocritical) decision. #EASM2023

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