Tag: EASS

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sport career transitions of professional Polish Mixed Martial Arts athletes by Michał Lenartowicz, Adrian Dobrzycki & Wojciech J. Cynarski.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘From the penthouse to the shithouse’: a social constructionism investigation of Rugby League players’ experiences of transitioning to retirement by Deborah Agnew, Shane Pill, Elizabeth Abery & Yvonne Georgina Ellis (open access).

The aim of the award is to facilitate the integration of outstanding graduate students and early career researchers into the European community of sociology of sport scholars. The award will be granted to a scholarly paper authored by an early-career researcher, which is deemed by a panel of judges to be of highest quality. The winning author will receive a monetary prize and will be invited to present the paper at the Annual Conference of the EASS, to be hosted by the University of Jyväskylä on 15th–18th June 2026.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘It’s not just you come into the gym and do your weight training’: a narrative exploration of muscularity’s role as identity capital by Ieuan Cranswick, David Richardson, Martin Littlewood & David Tod (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Forgive me for saying, but rugby is not a game for women:’ an exploration of contemporary attitudes towards women’s rugby union by Bethan Clargo & Michael Skey (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Why the long face? Experiences and observations of bullying behaviour at equestrian centres in Great Britain by N. Watson, N.J Thompson & J. Jooste (open access).

The aim of the award is to facilitate the integration of outstanding graduate students and early career researchers into the European community of sociology of sport scholars. The award will be granted to a scholarly paper authored by an early-career researcher, which is deemed by a panel of judges to be of highest quality. The winning author will receive a monetary prize and will be invited to present the paper at the Annual Conference of the Eass, to be hosted by the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw on 25th–27th June 2025.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Women play football, not women’s football’: the potentials and paradoxes of professionalisation expressed at the UEFA women’s EURO 2022 Championship  by Anne Tjønndal, Sigbjørn Børreson Skirbekk, Stian Røsten & Egil Trasti Rogstad.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: To pay or not to pay? Parents’ view of the commercialisation process in children and youth sports by Stefan Wagnsson, Christian Augustsson & Martina Jordan (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The effects of capital and gender on German adolescents’ favourite sports by Sebastian Gehrmann, Uta Czyrnick-Leber & Pamela Wicker.