Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025 (360G-Wellcome-227393_Z_23_Z)
Sports sponsorship by the addictive industries of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling pressurises health services and damages lives. While tobacco sponsorship is no longer legal, sports fans are nevertheless still routinely exposed to sponsorship by the alcohol and gambling industries. The health dangers of this involvement are pressing. Marketing is shown to directly impact the behaviours of those vulnerable to health harms, prompting unplanned betting in nine out of ten people experiencing gambling problems. Similar impacts have been recorded for tobacco and alcohol use. This important project will be the first to systematically map and analyse professional sport sponsorship from a historical perspective. As such, it works towards Wellcome’s strategic goals by uncovering historical precedents as a means to mobilise better health outcomes. Stimulated by the 2021-22 UK governmental gambling review (that includes an examination of sponsorship), three leading experts within history and the social sciences analyse the tobacco, alcohol, and gambling industries’ relationships with five professional sports (football, rugby, cricket, formula one, tennis). From the first sports sponsorship deals of the mid-1960s to 2025, we scrutinise the involvement of sport and industry in sponsorship and interrogate what the production of health-harming behaviours means for sport, industry, and the interested public.
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Grant Details
| Region | East Midlands |
| Award Date | 2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Internal ID | 227393/Z/23/Z |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2030-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2024-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Amount Awarded | 1696710 |
| Financial Year | 2022/23 |
| Lead Applicant | Prof Anna Greenwood |
| Grant Programme: Title | Discovery Award |
| Applicant Surname | Greenwood |
| Approval Committee | DSV Interview Panel |
| Other Applicant(s) | Prof Alex Mold, Prof Heather Wardle |
| Recipient Org: Country | United Kingdom |
| Recipient Org: City | Nottingham |
| Has the grant transferred? | No |
| Research conducted at multiple locations? | Yes |
| Total amount including partnership funding | 1696710 |