The Fourteenth International Conference on Sport & Society is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. We invite proposals addressing one of the following themes or special focus:
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- 2023 Special Focus—The Impact of Professional Sport on Community
- Theme 1: Sporting Cultures and Identities
- Theme 2: Sport and Health
- Theme 3: Sports Education
- Theme 4: Sports Management and Commercialization
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Benefits of Becoming a Presenter
Our mission is to provide a safe, sustainable, and accessible way for us to come together and interact as a Research Network. We are taking on these challenges by offering a blended conference experience, with session types explicitly designed to make the most of both online and in-person social knowledge processes.
Present to a Global Audience
We pride ourselves on the global diversity of our network members. Add your voice, in-person or online, by submitting a proposal today. You will need the following: presentation type, short/long descriptions, keywords, focus, themes, and biographical information.
Also remember, you do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the time of submission. You can present both ways, or change your mode of the presentation if your preferences change.
View our Step-by-Step Guide to submitting a presentation proposal.
Robust Online Experience
For over 30 years, Common Ground has been invested in developing technologies that seek to break down barriers of access in scholarly communication. In each phase, we’ve built media platforms to support spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, before such approaches were in vogue; connected international voices, when disciplines were too often isolated in national silos; and supported an agenda of access and equality, by offering pathways and opportunities for diverse voices.
And now we propose another kind of intervention – a scholarly communication infrastructure for a blended future.
With this step-by-step guide, we walk you through the new phases pre/during/post-conference to ensure you have a productive blended conference.
Publishing Opportunities
We are working to change the way in which knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.
The International Journal of Sport and Society and Book Imprint offer pathways to transform your presentation into formal research objects. We also support a number of affordable Open Access pathways to allow maximum flexibility to support principles of open research, in a sustainable manner.
Find out more about the The International Journal of Sport and Society and Book Imprint.
Join as an Audience Member
Audience Passes are for those who want to benefit from the content, connect with presenters, and join the discussion – in-person blended and online only. You’ll gain access to all headline presentations: welcome addresses, plenary addresses, and curated thematic content — either live or from any place and in your own time. And you’ll be able to participate in innovative blended formats – Talking Circles, Garden Conversations — using the best of in-person and online capacities, and on a human scale.