Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach by Sara Hoy, Carolina Lunde, Håkan Larsson, Örjan Ekblom, Björg Helgadóttir & Gisela Nyberg (open access).

SVEBI-konferensen 2025 ägde rum i Örebro den 26-27 november och arrangerades av Örebro Universitet på uppdrag av Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning (SVEBI). Det var 50-års jubileum för konferensen som arrangerades för första gången just i Örebro 1975. Temat för konferensen var övergångar och förändringsprocesser inom idrottsutbildning, idrottspraktiker och idrottsorganisationer. My Blomberg och Daria Mezerdzhi, doktorander i idrottsvetenskap vid Malmö universitet, rapporterar från konferensen.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom by Dhwanil Shah and Anthony Lamont Williams.

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: After 50 Years of Sports Media Scholarship, the Academy Takes Notice by Christopher E. Etheridge, Steve Bien-Aimé (open access)

Journal of Sport & Social Issues< brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue:: What Can the Running Body Do? The Running Machine's Affective Possibilities and the Limits of Language by Jean Ketterling and Bridgette Desjardins (open access).

Since the 2000s, a growing number of states have been mobilizing their diplomats on sporting issues and sport for diplomatic purposes, to the extent that the concept of ‘sports diplomacy’ has become established in a prescriptive, if not forward-looking, sense in the international public sphere. Unlike the often-speculative analyses of many experts, this conference aims to examine the relationship between diplomats, diplomacies, and sport by analyzing sources (archives, interviews, etc.), with a focus on its forms, practices, and the actors who shape them. 

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The correlates of women’s versus men’s football participation in Europe: gender insights and policy implications by Paul Downward & Pamela Wicker (open access).

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education by Øyvind F. Standal, Vegard Faanes Aaring & David Kirk (open access).

Stillingen er knyttet til faggruppen for fysisk aktivitet og funksjonshemming ved Institutt for lærerutdanning og friluftslivsstudier. Stipendiaten skal bidra til å utvikle forskningsprosjektet «Mennesker som Oss», som undersøker holdninger og verdier relatert til inkludering av mennesker i ulike kontekster for fysisk aktivitet (e.g., rehabilitering, paraidrett, psykisk helsevern). Dette prosjektet retter seg mot skole- og kroppsøvingskonteksten, med fokus på barn og unge med funksjonshemming.

The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related information from sports law experts around the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women’s football and the fundamental right to occupational health and safety: FIFA’s responsibility to regulate female specific health challenges by Ella Pauline Limbach.

The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is a refereed journal designed to advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Special Olympics athletes’ experiences of mental health and help-seeking by Jeemin Kim, Chloe Ellard, Katherine A. Tamminen & Kelly P. Arbour-Nicitopoulos (open access).

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Narrative Storytelling as a Fan Conversion Tool in the Netflix Docuseries Drive to Survive by Caroline Soble and Mark Lowes (open access).

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The anthology Martial Arts in Latin Societies, edited by Augusto Rembrandt Rodríguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Piedra and George Jennings (Routledge), is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. We asked martial arts expert Anna Kavoura for a review, and her thorough reading and critical analysis is a clever companion to this sprawling collection of martial arts practices and national and cultural contexts within the Latin societies and the Philippines. Not without its flaws this is still an insightful and timely addition to the expanding body of martial arts scholarship.

Det vitenskapelige arbeidet må dreie seg om barn i norsk idrett i tida etter 1970. Barneidrettens plass i det norske samfunnet er et underbelyst tema i idrettshistorien. Norges idrettsforbund (NIF)s ulike og reviderte barneidrettsbestemmelser i perioden fra 1976-2027, og særforbundenes og særkretsenes tilknyttede retningslinjer for sin barneidrett, trenger å bli behandlet i sin helhet, og i en bredere samfunnskontekst. Også historisk orienterte studier av barneidrett og konkurransearenaer utenfor den organiserte rammen av NIF, kan tenkes i dette PH.D.-arbeidet.

In The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture (Routledge), Tomasz Jacheć examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. In his review, Brian Hillman notes that the author uses the framework of the “hero’s journey” from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and makes good use of the “mytheme” concept. Our reviewer concludes that Jacheć’s effort is an exemplary academic engagement with popular culture.

To offer a comprehensive overview of the current and perceived future state of sports journalism competition, Nicholas Buzzelli’s latest offer, Normalizing the Sports Journalism Niche: Coexisting in a Modern News Landscape (Peter Lang) examines how various disseminators of written sports information are able to coexist in the modern sports journalism ecosystem by catering to the niche. Rosarita Cuccoli finds that the book provides valuable insights into the evolving nature of sports journalism as viewed by people from different subsets of sportswriting.

The sport-media relationship is a long-standing and symbiotic one. Sport delivers key audiences while media coverage fosters sport’s popularity and development. Rosarita Cuccoli’s new book Sports Journalism in Society (Bologna University Press) is about the media’s role and responsibility in selecting what becomes news when covering sport. Nicholas R. Buzzelli, well versed in sport media studies, concludes that Cuccoli offers journalists and journalism scholars a framework for deciding how sports journalism and sport sociology should further intersect moving forward.

idrottsforum.org’s weekly newsletter gives you the past week’s on-site activities in your mailbox every Monday morning, in the form of a letter with a link to a web page presentation of new publications. Click below to access that page, which also offers you a chance to subscribe to the Monday morning mail in case you’re not already a subscriber. And do friends and colleagues a great favor by telling them about this invaluable and totally free service.

The Beautiful Game Reimagined: Women’s Soccer in Brazil, edited by Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães, Tiago J. Fernandes Maranhão & Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda (Common Ground) challenges long-held notions of the country’s enduring football heritage by highlighting the influential and rapidly evolving sphere of women’s soccer. Jonny Hjelm finds a few flaws in the editorial work, which are however overshadowed by the strengths: the breadth of the subject, the intersectional perspective and some really good chapters coalesce to create valuable knowledge of women’s football in one of the major football nations.

I anställningen ingår forskning och undervisning. Arbetsuppgifterna kopplat till forskning innebär att du driver publiceringar och forskningsmedelsansökningar i samarbete med seniora forskare inom ämnesområdet för anställningen. I forskning ingår även att du samverkar med externa aktörer, arbetar för internationalisering, och att du aktivt deltar i utvecklingen av forskningen inom ämnet. Idrottsvetenskap är ett tvärvetenskapligt ämne med egna begrepp, teorier, metoder och modeller. Det är därför avgörande att du har kunskap inom ämnet.

Politics, Social Issues and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and Molly Yanity (Routledge) takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand and is one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Christian Tolstrup Jensen appreciates that the book takes a broad view on women’s football with a global perspective. He also notes that the Cup in fact plays a very limited role in many chapters.

This PhD position is linked to the RESPONSE research group and its ongoing research profiles and invites studies of working life in sport and organisational aspects of sport. The professionalisation of sport in various national and international context has made sport an increasingly integral part of the labour market, with a growing presence of paid roles and commercial actors within the voluntary sector. This PhD position offers the opportunity to explore how shifts in the relationships among public, private, and voluntary actors impact working conditions and organisational practices in the sport field.

We welcome articles that consider women’s roles as athletes, coaches, officials, administrators, investors, athletic therapists, journalists, fans and even legislators. Submissions may focus on any chronological period and any geographic region and may centre amateur, community, professional and/or elite level of play. We are particularly interested in submissions offering critical analyses on how sexuality, age, race/racism, nationalism, feminism, or faith might have shaped women’s opportunities and experiences in basketball, including the organizational power of the gender binary itself.

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