Health and Human Performance
Dan Connaughton Research Group
Led by Dan Connaughton · Sport Management
What we study
The Connaughton Lab studies risk perception and management in sports and physical activity, focusing on legal and policy issues. Their research includes analyzing risk management practices and injury prevention strategies.
What working here is like
- Reading, writing & theory
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Implementation Constraints and Risk Management Practices Related to Automated External Defibrillators in Sport/Recreation Programs
Research funded by the American Heart Association on defibrillator use in sports programs.
Florida Bicycle Safety and Risk Management Project
A project funded by the Florida Department of Transportation to improve bicycle safety.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Application of machine and deep learning techniques on sport non-fungible token tweets: exploration of perceived values and risks
2025 · International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
Uses AI to study how fans perceive values and risks in sport NFTs through social media posts.
- The effects of a sport team's involvement regarding corporate social responsibility on fans' pride and intention to donate: The moderating effects of urgency with involvement
2024 · International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
Investigates how urgency and fan involvement in CSR affect pride and donation intentions.
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- Charity running event for homelessness: the framing effects on prosocial behavioral intentions
2024 · European Sport Management Quarterly
Examines how different charity event messages influence donations and plight information.
- Youth Sport Coaches’ Perceptions of Sexually Inappropriate Behaviors and Intimate Coach-Athlete Relationships
2023 · Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
Surveyed 200 U.S. youth coaches to understand their views on sexually inappropriate behaviors and intimate relationships with athletes.
- Towards an inductive model of customer experience in fitness clubs: a structural topic modeling approach
2023 · European Sport Management Quarterly
Uses Yelp reviews to identify customer experience themes in fitness clubs.
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