Publications
Animal mayhem games and nonhuman-oriented thinking Ghent University
Volunteering at the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games Vrije Universiteit Brussel
of sport mega-events as a leverageable resource in realizing
long-term impacts for individual volunteers. However, previous
research has provided limited evidence of the realization of anticipated
impacts in the post-event period. This study focuses on the
long-term impacts of Olympic and Youth Olympic volunteering in
terms of memory, ...
Documentation games: A comparison between three games to support participatory design teams to document their design process Hasselt University
Volunteers’ Collective Memory of Youth Olympic Games: Macro-Level Contextual Understandings Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Knowledge about macro-level context differences in volunteering is critical. By adopting the notion of collective memory, consideration is given to how macro-level context constructs the volunteers’ memory of the experience at a sport mega-event such as the Olympic Games. A case study of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games was selected. Thematic analysis of three focus groups reveals that volunteers’ memories are regulated by Confucian ...
The Legacy of the Olympic Games: A Review KU Leuven
Editorial Academic Games KU Leuven
Management practices matter: Understanding volunteers’ memories at the Youth Olympic Games. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Purpose: This study aims to understand the memories of Youth Olympic Games (YOG) volunteers long after their participatory experiences and how the volunteer managerial practices constructed those memories. Methodology: Focus groups were used in combination with document analysis to further investigate how the volunteer management practices at the Nanjing 2014 construct the current volunteer memory of YOG experience. Three focus groups with a ...