by Colm Kearns | Aug 22, 2024 | Uncategorised
The TOHIF project has started a podcast! Over the course of 8 episodes, the imaginatively named, TOHIF Podcast, will give listeners a succinct overview of the problem of online hate in football; how it happens, why it happens and what efforts are being made to stop...
by Colm Kearns | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorised
As Euro 2024 enjoys its first week of high-stakes football, thoughts will have returned to how the last one ended. One of the abiding memories of the Euro 2020 final was the vile racist abuse black English players received following the team’s penalty shootout loss...
by Colm Kearns | May 29, 2024 | Uncategorised
Fair Game UK held its annual conference at AFC Wimbledon’s Plough Lane on 21 May. Among the attendees were TOHIF’s Colm Kearns and Dan Kilvington. Fair Game UK is an organisation aimed at ensuring football is governed with fairness, openness and transparency. Their...
by Colm Kearns | Mar 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
The TOHIF team have successfully facilitated a series of interactive workshops at Sky Sports News (SSN). These workshops, building on from our wider research with sports journalists, were designed to explore the experiences of sport media personnel working in a...
by Colm Kearns | Feb 14, 2024 | Uncategorised
Throughout January and February 2024, TOHIF team members visited Sky Sports Studios in London to deliver three workshops on the risks and impacts of online harms for sports journalists. The workshops featured the TOHIF team speaking to a wide range of Sky staff, from...
by Colm Kearns | Dec 15, 2023 | Uncategorised
The “take the knee” protest during Euro 2020 was a symbolic act of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, signalling, primarily, a call for an end to racial injustice. Aside from the competition on the pitch, the decision by specific national teams to...
