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JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Te Papa Tākaro o te Tuakiri: The Field of Identity in Indigenous Māori Rugby by Jack Nelson, Anne-Marie Jackson, Chanel Phillips, Danny Poa & Te Kahurangi Skelton.

The purpose of WLJ is to stimulate and communicate research, theory, and critical thought in all areas that address leisure, including play, recreation, the arts and culture, sport, health and fitness, and travel and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Soccer matches as a serious leisure activity: the effect on fans’ life satisfaction and psychological well-being by Mehmet Ertaş.

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: New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case by Karin Book, Susanna Hedenborg & Karin Andersson (open access).

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer, book review by Ron Palenski.

Yet another volume in Routledge’s World Association for Sport Management Series has been published, International Sport Business Management: Issues and New Ideas, edited by James J. Zhang, Brenda G. Pitts & Lauren M. Johnson. We asked Hans Lundberg, Senior Lecturer in organization and entrepreneurship at the School of Business and Economics, Linnæus University, for a review. He is not impressed by this book, rather the opposite, although he manages to find a couple of bright spots among the contributions.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a 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: THE SPORTS WORLD IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 by John Nauright, Sarah Zipp & Young Hoon Kim.

JIIA encourages and supports interdisciplinary and interuniversity collaborative college-sport research, serves as a research consortium for college-sport researchers from across the United States, and disseminates college-sport research results. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ENGAGING COLLEGE ATHLETES IN AND THROUGH GRADUATE STUDY: ACADEMIC TRAJECTORIES AND IMPLICATIONS by Siduri Heserlig.

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘WE HAVE THE TIME TO LISTEN’: COMMUNITY HEALTH TRAINERS, IDENTITY WORK AND BOUNDARIES by Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Rachel Williams, Geoff Middleton, Hannah Henderson, Lee Crust & Adam Evans.

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. Open to all qualitative approaches, QRSEH aims to be eclectic in content. It will publish refereed articles covering the diverse landscape of qualitative research.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.