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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.

This special issue will highlight emerging opportunities and critical challenges posed by AI in sport, offering implications that extend beyond the sport sector. Through empirical studies, theoretical explorations, and case-based insights, the special issue will offer a comprehensive and timely contribution to both scholarship and industry. Contributions will be solicited through a targeted call for papers, outreach to leading researchers, invitations to authors of recent relevant publications, promotion via academic listservs, and, where appropriate, by encouraging collaboration with industry practitioners.

The Sports Innovation Journal (SIJ) brings together researchers and practitioners dedicated to publishing research that informs the development of innovative ideas to move the sports industry forward through collaboration, access, and relevancy. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Application of an Advanced Risk Analysis Evaluation Tool of Sports Integrity in an International Sports Competition: A Quantitative Case Study by Richard McLaren, Diana Tesic, Martin Dubbey (open access).

Interested scholars and practitioners are invited to submit sport business research proposals for consideration as either an oral (15 min) or poster presentation. Completed research studies are invited as well as works in progress, to be completed by the conference date. The conference will be held in the Bahamas aboard Royal Caribbean's "Independence of the Seas." The ship will sail from the Port of Miami on Friday, February 21, with stops in Coco Cay (Saturday) and Nassau (Sunday), returning to Miami on Monday, February 24.

The Sports Innovation Journal (SIJ) brings together researchers and practitioners dedicated to publishing research that informs the development of innovative ideas to move the sports industry forward through collaboration, access, and relevancy. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Applied Improvisation in the Sport Management Curriculum by Mandy Barefoot, J. Michael Martinez, Hannah Sensenbrenner Morrow (open access).

The Sports Innovation Journal announces a call for papers for a special issue on innovations in engaged learning in sport management, tourism, recreation, live entertainment, and related fields led by guest editors Elizabeth Gregg, Jessica Braustein-Minkove, and Heather Alderman. Engaged learning is an active process by which knowledge and understanding are acquired through participation, inquiry, involvement, and direct experiences (IGI dictionary).

The Sports Innovation Journal (SIJ) brings together researchers and practitioners dedicated to publishing research that informs the development of innovative ideas to move the sports industry forward through collaboration, access, and relevancy. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The International Student-Athlete Experience: A Research Study Into the Transition Process of ISAs, From Their Home Country Into Life as an NCAA Student-Athlete by Ioanna Charitonidi, Anastasios Kaburakis.

As social entrepreneurship continues to evolve in the sport industry, there is a need for conducting and disseminating research to further this emerging area, as well as educate those unfamiliar with the importance of this concept. The goal of this call is to publish research that identifies the characteristics and models of social entrepreneurship and how those concepts apply to the sport industry.

Recent years have seen drastic developments in terms of digitalisation in sports. The use of digital technology in sports affects how sports teams are organized and managed, how we gain access to sports information and design new sports equipment. Digitization has also created new sports, such as e-Sports, which have major consequences for the perception of what sports are and how sports are practiced.

The Sports Innovation Journal (SIJ) brings together researchers and practitioners dedicated to publishing research that informs the development of innovative ideas to move the sports industry forward through collaboration, access, and relevancy. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: 'Actually, Esports Is Sport: A Response to Parry’s (2019) Misguided View by Michael L. Naraine.