Illustrating the Wheelchair Basketball Journey
9 October 2024
Written by: gathomas
A project aiming to highlight the experience of disabled young people as they get involved with Wheelchair Basketball has been launched by lecturers at the University of Lincoln and Loughborough University.
Wheelchair BB Stories is an illustration and information project from Dr Lesley Sharpe, Lecturer in Sports Sociology at the University of Lincoln, alongside Prof. Vicky Tolfrey and Dr Janine Coates from Loughborough University.
The project aims to highlight, through illustration, three critical aspects of disabled young people’s early encounters with wheelchair basketball: Discovery, Benefits and Participation.
All illustrations in the project have been done by Dr Lesley Sharpe and have been designed to be shared across social media and offer an interactive pathway to discover more and hopefully signpost and encourage further participation in the sport.
Speaking about the project, Lesley said:
‘As a team we are conscious that the ways in which we disseminate our research findings, particularly through traditional academic research journals and books, does not always resonate for, or can be inaccessible to the young people we research with.
“We wanted to create a novel social media focussed project that could use our collective findings to represent, promote and signpost disabled young people to connect with wheelchair basketball opportunities.”
The Wheelchair BB Stories project is funded by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and supported by British Wheelchair Basketball.
You can see more on Instagram or by visiting https://linktr.ee/wheelchairbbstories
