Minhyeok Tak
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Minhyeok Tak, PhD
Lecturer
Loughborough University
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Dr. Minhyeok Tak is a Lecturer in Sport Management at Loughborough University. Minhyeok’s research interest is in the socio-political analysis of integrity issues in sport, including athlete safeguarding, sports gambling and match-fixing. His work has recently focused on how Safe Sport policies and practices challenge certain sociocultural norms and make institutional impacts in local contexts. His most recent research project, funded by the IOC’s Advanced Research Grant, examined institutional and cultural hindrances to cultivating safer sporting environments and unintended, perverse effects of safeguarding policies in South Korea.