Tag: Clare MacMahon

Managing and Developing Sports Officials: Officiating Excellence, edited by Tom Webb, David J. Hancock, Pamm Phillips & Jacob K. Tingle (Routledge), offers an evidence-based guide to the development, management, and retention of sports officials. Our reviewer is Stuart Carrington, whose 2019 book Blowing the Whistle: The Psychology of Football Refereeing places him well for the job. And he is quite satisfied with this crucial contribution to the literature around sports officials that more than meets its aim.

IRSEP is the first scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes critical reviews of research literature in sport and exercise psychology. Typically, these reviews evaluate relevant conceptual and methodological issues in the field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Extraversion in sport: a scoping review by Mark S. Allen, Erin A. Mison, Davina A. Robson & Sylvain Laborde.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Last and fast? – A gender-specific analysis of effort gains in swimming relay events across Olympic Games and World Championships during the past 20 years by Claudia Braun, Sebastian Fischer, Xiao Qiu, Julia Limmeroth, Armin Kibele.

The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP) publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The journal’s Editors and Editorial Board encourage researchers and scholars worldwide to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: PROSOCIAL AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN SPORT by Maria Kavussanu & Ali Al-Yaaribi.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. Editor’s pick from the current issue: WHAT’S A COACH TO DO? EXPLORING COACHES’ PERSPECTIVES OF BODY IMAGE IN GIRLS SPORT by Catherine M. Sabiston, Kristen M. Lucibello, David Kuzmochka-Wilks, Alyona Koulanova, Eva Pila, Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, Drew Maginn.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.

Bente Skogvang, herself a seasoned football referee as well as an accomplished sports scholar, reviews Sports Officials and Officiating: Science and Practice by Clare MacMahon and colleagues (Routledge). This book, she concludes, is a welcome contribution to the literature in an understudied sphere of sports.

Anne Tjønndal, sport scientist and coach, finds much to appreciate in a new anthology from Routledge, Developing Sport Expertise: Researchers and coaches put theory into practice edited by Damian Farrow, Joseph Baker & Clare MacMahon.