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Dr. Derrick Charway

@derrickocharway.bsky.social
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Dr. Derrick Charway is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH). His research includes diversity and cultural issues in sport, health in digital times, public policy, sustainability, and sport for development and peace.

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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Traversing complex landscapes in Pakistan | 22 | Exploring the potenti
This chapter explores the role of community-based Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) initiatives in Pakistan in the context of rising violent extremism (VE).
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Youth Sports Development in Ghana | 13 | v2 | Policies, Collaboration,
This chapter critically analyses the fragmented landscape of youth sports development in Ghana and its impacts on participation, accessibility, and equity. We
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Frontiers | Sport for development sector and climate change adaptation in Zambia—theories of strategic choice
The World Economic Forum Annual Report 2023–2024 warned of the devastating impact that climate change will have on human health by 2025, claiming that 14.5 m...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New Research, don't skip! doi.org/10.1177/0193...
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Unequal Road: Agency, Aspiration, and Migration in the Sporting Journeys of Ghanaian Female Athletes - Derrick Charway, Vida Korleki Nyawornota, Bright Baffour Antwi, Lydia Amoah, Nana Yaw Oppong-Yebo...
Challenging conventional narratives of migration in sports, this study delves into the lived experiences of Ghanaian female student-athletes navigating the intr...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Frontiers | Advancing social cohesion and violence prevention through sport-based interventions
Sport for development and peace, particularly its intersection with violence prevention and deradicalization, has garnered increasing scholarly and policy in...
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idrottsforum.bsky.social @idrottsforum.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW ARTICLE ALERT “Disability sport profile of Ghana: evolution, policies, politics and participation barriers”, by Derrick Charway, Dennis Osei-Nimo Annor, and Davies Banda, available online and open access in Front. Sports Act. Living. www.frontiersin.org/journals/spo...
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Frontiers | Disability sport profile of Ghana: evolution, policies, politics and participation barriers
The profile analyses the landscape of disability sport in Ghana, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary challenges. Alongside legislative advancem...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Disability sport profile of Ghana: evolution, policies, politics and participation barriers doi.org/10.3389/fspo...
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Frontiers | Disability sport profile of Ghana: evolution, policies, politics and participation barriers
The profile analyses the landscape of disability sport in Ghana, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary challenges. Alongside legislative advancem...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sustainable Development Goals through Sport: An Analysis of Policy Implementation in Ghana nih.brage.unit.no/nih-xmlui/ha...
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Brage NIH: Sustainable Development Goals through Sport: An Analysis of Policy Implementation in Ghana
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Football leadership and public value in Ghana www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Football leadership and public value in Ghana | 12 | Embedded Multi-Le
This chapter is about how the national football association of Ghana worked to restore its legitimacy within the Ghanaian society. It addresses the importance
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
By Derrick Charway, Davies Banda, Bella Bello Bitugu, Iain Lindsey
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A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Sport as a Tool for Development in Afr
This chapter presents a novel comparative analysis of distinctive features of government-led policy implementation using sport as a tool for development in
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Leave No One Behind? Analysing Sport Inclusion Policy‐Implementation for Persons With Disabilities in Ghana | Article | Social Inclusion www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...
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Leave No One Behind? Analysing Sport Inclusion Policy‐Implementation for Persons With Disabilities in Ghana | Article | Social Inclusion
Derrick Charway, Francis Asare, Allan Bennich Grønkjær
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers - Derrick Charway, Åse Strandbu, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers - Derrick Charway, Åse Strandbu, 2024
Despite numerous international and national policy documents promoting girls’ and women's empowerment and participation in community sports, the actual acc...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Full article: Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap
The global optimism for sport as ‘an important enabler of sustainable development’ by the United Nations appears in many countries’ policy documents. In Ghana, sport is linked to the social dimensi...
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Dr. Derrick Charway @derrickocharway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Full article: Country profile of Ghana: sport, politics and nation-building www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Country profile of Ghana: sport, politics and nation-building
The profile gives an overview of the changing trends of sport policies adopted in Ghana and highlights how past political upheavals made it difficult to have stable sport development strategies. Cu...
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Bright B. Antwi @yawbaffour.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New ethnographic study on the digital self-tracking in Ghana. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The fitness boom and the pursuit of body ideals: domesticating the use of smartwatches in Ghanaian fitness spaces
This study explores the use of smartwatches within fitness spaces in Ghana. As part of the fitness boom, the pursuit of body ideals has become increasingly intertwined with digital self-tracking, h...
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