WHAT IS DAISI
Under Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European Commission funds research and innovation projects to boost top researchers’ careers through mobility and innovative doctoral and postdoctoral training. The Doctoral Training Network in Sport Ethics and Integrity (DAiSI) has been selected under the Horizon Europe 2022 call and kicked off on 1st of October 2023.
The Doctoral Training Network in Sport Ethics and Integrity (DAiSI) is an interdisciplinary network of research institutions and non-governmental organisations in the field of sport ethics and integrity. It will form a new generation of doctoral candidates (DCs) that are capable of understanding, developing, and critiquing the complex ethico-legal challenges in sporting contexts around the globe.
Research objectives:
- Conceptualise sports integrity in a coherent and complex model, drawing from multiple disciplines and stakeholders’ standpoints, identifying and classifying specific threats to sport integrity to be adopted across the DN and establishing a “paradigm” for the field;
- Investigate 17 specific threats to sports integrity and their causes at macro (Organisational integrity: national and international), meso (Competition integrity), and individual (Personal integrity) level, laying the argumentative and evidentiary bases for public policy makers and sports organisations to deal more consistently and effectively with these and related threats;
- Develop, justify, and disseminate a holistic and strategic interdisciplinary methodology drawing together disciplinary traditions, theories, and research findings to form a paradigm for all future integrity research;
- Develop evidence-based policy recommendations for governmental and sport ruling bodies governance development and reform, helping them deal more effectively with the scandals and other threats to the integrity and values of sport that undermine its societal function and legitimacy.
The network comprises of 5 prestigious universities and 8 leading international bodies, which include:
EMPOWERING INNOVATIVE RESEARCH
We examine the problems, identify published and novel solutions, deliver multi-disciplinary research and work with stakeholders to improve policy and guidelines to prevent future harms to sportspersons and organisations.
The network provides extensive training and interdisciplinary doctoral education to 17 selected doctoral researchers, recruited impartially from around the world. Every thesis contributes to a coherent programme of research, which takes a three-dimensional approach, at the individual, competition and organisational levels (each of which has its own ethical, legal and social challenges).
TAKING SPORTING INTEGRITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Our researchers will graduate from the programme with a joint doctorate from at least two leading universities, as well as having gained real-world experience and skills that make them immensely attractive to employers.
Building on the world leading Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sport Ethics and Integrity (www.maisi-project.eu).
OUR SPONSORS
This project DAiSI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe by the granting Authority REA (the European Research Executive Agency) under Grant Agreement No 101120342; from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number: EP/Y031687/1].
