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Sport in Society, Volume 28, 2025, Issue 4 | Football vs. ice hockey in the European sport landscape

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs by William Crossan, Jan Šíma & Michaela Kaprálková.

Call for Papers | “Post-Qualitative Inquiry in Sport & Movement Studies”, Special Issue of Journal of Sport & Social Issues | Call ends August 29, 2025

We welcome proposals for papers that put PQI (or related approaches) into practice in theoretically and/or empirically innovative ways; engage with creative more-than-human methods and/or modes of representation; and/or engage critically with the potential of such approaches for sport and movement studies. We are particularly interested in papers that expand current ways of doing more-than-human research in sport and movement studies, and/or that advance such theory-method approaches in grounded, contextualized ways.

Call for Participation | Sport, Innovation and Social Change, PhD Course, Nord University, Bodø, November 17–21, 2025. Registration opens August 2025.

This PhD course will provide PhD students with in-depth knowledge about social scientific approaches to the study of sports, with particular focus on contemporary challenges and technological innovations, as well as ethical and methodological issues. The course covers the following topics and lectures: Innovation and technology in sport, governance and social change, interdisciplinary methods and critical inquiry, innovative and creative research dissemination. The course adopts a cross-disciplinary, social scientific approach to explore new frontiers of sport organisations and research areas within sport.

Sport in Society, Volume 28, 2025, Issue 3

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Placing community at the heart of community sport development: introducing the community sport development framework (CSDF) by Kate Mori, Haydn Morgan, Andrew Parker & Iain Lindsey (open access).

Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Volume 15, 2024 | Open Access Journal

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Does responsibility fall on the players or the sporting context? A study of the use of injury-prevention programmes in Swedish elite floorball clubs by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen & Staffan Karp (open access).

Sport in Society, Volume 28, 2025, Issue 2 | Surfing and Skateboarding

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology by Jim Donaghey & Slaine Browne (open access).

Call for Papers | “Sport, Justice and Belonging: Critical Analysis and Worldmaking”, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Annual Conference | Seattle/Vancouver/Virtual, November 5-8, 2025. Call...

This is a crucial time for our field. The Sociology of Sport analyzes the relationship between sport and structures of power, domination and social control and contributes to world-making via engagements with activists and social movements. NASSS as an organization has a long history of critically interrogating the bases of inclusion/exclusion in sport and beyond, examining the role of sport in normalizing the social structures of the nation, hierarchies based on race/gender/sexuality/ability/citizenship etc., and colonialism and postcolonialism in all its variations.

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 60, 2025, No. 2

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran by Saeed Shamshirian and Vidar Halldorsson (open access).

Sociology of Sport Journal, Volume 42, 2025, Issue 1

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Better to Have Played Than Not Played? Childhood Sport Participation, Dropout Frequencies and Reasons, and Mental Health in Adulthood by Laura Upenieks, Brendan Ryan, Chris Knoester

European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 22, 2025, Issue 1

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).