Tag: CfP Conference

This one day conference will be held on 8th March 2017 as part of the International Womens Day celebrations. The conference will appeal to a range of stakeholders in womens sport from governing bodies, policy makers, sports administrators, sports development roles, education and academics, coaches, participants and anyone interested in developing and promoting sport.

The Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sheila Scraton’s book, Shaping Up To Womanhood: Gender and Girls’ Physical Education. Keynote speakers include Professor Emerita Sheila Scraton.

For the first time ever, the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union (Sport&EU) moves to Scandinavia for its 12th Annual Conference, which will be hosted on 29 and 30 June 2017 by the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences in Molde University College, Norway. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

This one-day conference will examine the history/histories of tourism and leisure during the summer months in Scotland. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words, and must be submitted by Friday, 30 January 2017. A £15 fee will be charged by the conference organisers for attendance.

In our sessions, we will discuss the role of sport in promoting health and stimulating integration and cohesion, and questions whether sport can and/or should be used in- strumentally in strategies of social engineering. Sport is central to contemporary society; our sessions are critical spaces to consider how and why.

In 2017 the ethnography symposium takes as its theme the question of politics and ethnography in “an age of uncertainty”. We invite you to join us in Manchester for the 12th International Ethnography Symposium. For the first time the conference is hosting a series of specialist streams that address the theme of politics from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

This conference will be an opportunity to take our prosopographical perspective further, with an emphasis on figures from these forgotten groups. As this panel is meant to understand the position of women within major sporting institutions, it will welcome biographies, as well as network presentations or collective biographies of women.

We would like to invite you to join us for the 11th Annual conference of the Sport and Politics Study Group, as part of the Political...

The popularity of data driven decision-making in sports has impacted consumer engagement by trickling down to the fans, particularly true of young adults. There are now entire websites dedicated to the research and analysis of sports statistics and how they relate to predicted team/player performance. Another major category of analytics in sports revolves around marketing-oriented applications.

Our aim is to bring together sport and exercise psychology researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on social justice and praxis, marginalized communities, participants lacking scholarly attention, or that falls outside the positivist mainstream of sport psychology. The symposium is organized by Vikki Krane (pictured).