Associate Professor Popi Sotiriadou completed her Doctorate on the topic of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, looking at legacies generated from elite athlete success to empowering community participation. Her work offers insights on the significance of gender, disability and indigenous people inclusion and engagement to boosting international affairs through sport as well as the infusion of technological advancements and disruption in sport systems globally from mass participation, and major events, to managing high performance sport.