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With a Ph.D. in gender studies, Greta Bladh has taken an interest in what ways gender norms both enables and disables our moving bodies within sporting practices, such as within gym culture. As such, issues concerning inclusion and exclusion have been a focal point of departure, which also extends to a current project concerning public outdoor gyms in Sweden. Currently, Greta Bladh holds a position as lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in sociology at Mid Sweden University.

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.

Inger Eliasson, PhD, is an associate professor in Education at the Department of Education and Umeå School of Sport Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research focuses on behavioral processes associated with upbringing and socialization in children’s sport, children’s rights, the abuse of children in sports, and gendered and generational issues within children’s sport and sport coaching but also about team sports for older people.

Sport plays an important role in our society and all over the world and is a major part of human interests and activities. Sport excites. When we search for inspiration, it is often found in the words and achievements of coaches and athletes. For the first time in Slovenia, in partnership with Olympic Committee of Slovenia and Slovenian Tourist Board, we organize an event on the topic of sports, which connects the most diverse areas of sports and the challenges faced by athletes, coaches and others.

Joseph D Lewandowski is a writer, researcher, educator, and avid pugilist. He currently serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (USA), and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Lewandowski is also an Expert Advisor at the Legatum Institute, a globally oriented London-based think tank devoted to lifting people out of poverty by creating pathways to prosperity.

This journal publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, promote the development of this mature field within international sociology, and go beyond the traditional geographical areas of leisure studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Olympic Planning, Profit, and Participation: Towards a Children’s rights-based Approach to Sport mega-event Research? by Seamus Byrne, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen.

Klara Boije af Gennäs is a doctoral student in sport science at Malmo University since September 2021. She is part of the doctoral school Learning in Multicultural Societal Contexts. She holds a BA in Sports Coaching and a MA from Gothenburg University. Klara’s research aims to increase the knowledge on sport related injuries in adolescents. She focuses on equestrian sport injuries using an interdisciplinary research approach combining sociology, sports medicine, and media and communication.

Sara Karlén is a PhD student at the Department of Sports Sciences, Malmö University. Her dissertation project studies football supporters and the Swedish supporter culture with a focus on the visual choreographies, known as tifos, that supporters create. In the past, she has studied sports audiences during the corona pandemic with a focus on football supporters, as well as conflicts between fans and police in the Swedish football landscape. Sara has an educational background in sociology and gender studies.

Susanna Geidne is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Science and an Associate professor in Public Health with focus on Health promotion at the Division of Sport Science at Örebro University. She focuses on practice-based health promotion research with sports (in a broad sense) as an arena. This includes methodologically diverse research on for example health promoting sports clubs (HPSC).

Antti Laine works as a Senior researcher and lecturer in sport sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests focus mainly on sport media, private sport sector (e.g. ice hockey and fitness) and sport as a societal phenomenon. Dr Laine has published numerous articles and acted as an editor in academic publications.