Tag: event studies

The proposed book emerging from the workshop aims to be the first scholarly volume to present a collection of critical and interdisciplinary studies of the SEA Games using frameworks, approaches, and methods from the social sciences and humanities. Approaching the SEA Games from multiple perspectives (national, historical, institutional, cultural, and political) the volume will ask how the event has collectively been constituted, contested, and transformed as a Southeast Asian sporting institution and practice.

The Centre for Culture, Sport and Events at the University of the West of Scotland is pleased to announce our next FREE ONLINE SEMINAR, which will take place on the 4th of November 2026 at 2pm UK time. The theme for this seminar is “Beyond Access: Rethinking Accessibility at Major Sport Events”, featuring Sophie Fusco McKeown and Dr Liz Carlin.

The «Journal of Global Sport Management» invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Sustainability in Global Sport: Environmental, Social, and Economic Futures and Governance”. This special issue invites submissions that critically examine sustainability across the event lifecycle, moving beyond rhetorical commitments toward meaningful, lasting, and actionable outcomes. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to furthering academic dialogue on sustainability within the global sport landscape across environmental, social, economic, and governance dimensions.

This Competition Funded PhD Project will implement a longitudinal mixed-methods approach (literature reviews, netnographies, content analysis, interviews, focus groups, surveys) to investigate EURO 2028's impact on the North East of England. The project offers an exceptional opportunity to develop research skills through a high-impact study with potential for multiple publications and international collaboration, leveraging established partnerships with institutions in Spain as that nation prepares to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

Building on the “spatial turn” in social sciences, this issue positions Olympic-related infrastructure as socio-technical systems that structure social relations, redistribute opportunities, and mediate power between stakeholders. The planning of the Olympic Games is increasingly shifting away from a monocentric model, resulting in networked venues, multi-city clusters, and diversified legacies.

This presentation, drawing together the findings of several projects on sport mega-events, human rights, and social movements argues that we are currently witnessing what Neil Stammers’ calls the paradox of institutionalisation with regard to safeguarding human rights at sport mega-events. This paradox explains how the incorporation of policies and procedures related to human rights can result in rights becoming a tool of power, not a challenge to it.

This event, following the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, brings together actors working on local and global scale to consider the future of mega-events. In particular, the debate will focus on some of the challenges associated with contemporary mega-events and why change is necessary. We will then move into a discussion of radical solutions for how they should change in the future – including whether such events should continue to exist at all. Finally, we will discuss the role of civil society in pushing for this change and how we can all contribute to developing more sustainable mega-events.

The Athens Journal of Sports is an Open Access quarterly double blind peer reviewed journal, which considers papers from all areas of sports and related sciences. Many of the papers published in this journal have been presented at the various conferences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Foreign Players in the Greek Football League: Evidence from the 2023-24 Regular Season by Gregory T. Papanikos.

JPRTLS provides a critical focus on a variety of policy debates relating to the tourism, leisure and events sectors. Such policy debates will encompass economic, social, cultural, political and environmental perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Public valuation of social impacts. The comparison between mega and non-mega sporting events. by Krystian Zawadzki.

Christian Tolstrup Jensen, PhD, is a sports historian affiliated with Malmö University where he currently works as a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Sport Sciences. His current research focuses on sports events, but his interest in sport studies is varied and wide: Danish and Scandinavian sport history ranging from Norwegian ice hockey to Danish football; youth history and culture, and especially the history of the scout movement. An ongoing project revolves around sport events and their role and position in the Nordic countries.