Sport matters to billions of people. It shapes health, identity, livelihoods, and communities. But it also carries real problems (environmental, social, and ethical) that it can either reinforce or help dismantle. Sustaining Sport is a podcast about those problems, and about the people trying to do something about them.

Episodes cover climate change, governance, sponsorship, gambling, colonial legacies, athlete welfare, and whatever else seems worth a serious conversation. Guests are researchers, athletes, activists, and practitioners. The goal isn't necessarily advocacy but an honest discussion of difficult questions, on the assumption that clearer thinking is a prerequisite for better answers.

About the Person

Benjamin Mole is a Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University London, UK.

Benjamin has an undergraduate degree in International Business from the University of Edinburgh and a master's degree in Global Sustainable Development from Lund University in Sweden. He has 5 years of industry experience in renewable energy and sport for climate action, including as a former employee and current volunteer at Pledgeball, supporting research.

Based largely on the planetary boundaries literature (Rockström et al., 2009), Benjamin is concerned for the planet's future, particularly in the context of justice for marginalised regions, groups and biodiversity.

Benjamin is from South Africa and his work endeavours to establish better representation for Southern Africa, both as a source of knowledge and as an area to be protected from the potential mistakes of more ‘developed’ regions.

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