Tag: Duncan Mascarenhas
New academic research closing in on the ref
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.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Vol. 39, November 2018
Psychology of Sport and Exercise is the Official Journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC). Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches.
Sport psychologists look at sports officials – and invite them in
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.
