âQi Wang
PhD student at the University of Birmingham
Research interest: Event legacy; sport governance; women's sport participation; sport policy; event leveraging; qualitative research
Current research
My research focuses on participation legacies of major sporting events and post-event leveraging, with a particular interest in how events can be used to support long-term sport participation and wider social impact. My PhD examines how mass winter sport participation has been sustained after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, from different perspectives including governance, policy, stakeholder networks and the sport industry.
I am also involved in research on the Commonwealth Games Legacy Enhancement Fund, commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority, which evaluates the long-term social impact of Birmingham 2022 on local communities.
More recently, I have been developing an interest in women’s sport participation.
Publications and Projects
Book chapter
Chen, S., Xing, X., & Wang, Q. (2025). The Chinese model of sport: Empowered and restrained in the new era. In B. García & V. Smokvina (Eds.), The European sports model: Myth or reality? Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032665153-16
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Research project
Commonwealth Games Legacy Enhancement Fund Evaluation
Contributed to a research project evaluating the long-term social impact of Birmingham 2022 in local communities across the West Midlands. Commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority. https://cloudcdn.wmca.org.uk/documents/wmca/pdf/final-evaluation-of-cwglef_clean.pdf
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Conference presentation
Wang, Q.
Post-event Leverage for Building Grassroots Sport Participation: What’s Happening Now After the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
European Association for Sport Management Conference, 2025. https://easm2025.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/EASM-Conference-2025-Abstracts.pdf