Tag: John Toner

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Wearables, wayfinding, and data visualisations for distance running by John Toner, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Patricia C. Jackman, Luke Jones, Joe Addrison.

EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education by Håkan Larsson, Dean Barker, Jan-Eric Ekberg, Christopher Engdahl, Anders Frisk, and Gunn Nyberg (open access).

Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “It’s just been learning on the job”: becoming and developing as a ParaHockey coach by Amy Elizabeth Hardwick, Tabo Huntley, Anthony Maher & Amy Whitehead (open access).

Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, John Toner’s Wearable Technology in Elite Sport: A Critical Examination reveals how wearable devices are used to quantify athletic bodies in ways that have a number of undesirable consequences for the embodied subject. In a collective review, the research group on sport and society, RESPONSE at Nord University, finds much to commend Toner’s efforts, but the critical perspectives promised in the title was sorely and sadly missing, according to our reviewers.

Jimmy Sanderson’s Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology: Sociological Approaches (Emerald Publications) brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and digital technology. A collective of sport sociologists at Nord University, Norway has read the book as a book group, bringing many various experiences and perspectives into a rich review highlighting the book’s strong points as well as its weaknesses.

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: Understanding coach-athlete conflict: an ethnodrama to illustrate conflict in elite sport by Matthew Smith & Calum Arthur (open access).

JSEP publishes peer-reviewed research articles by leading world scholars that explore the interactions between psychology and exercise and sport performance, and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Coding Body Language in Sports: The Nonverbal Behavior Coding System for Soccer Penalties by Philip Furley, Alexander Roth.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE REBALANCING ACT: INJURED VARSITY WOMEN ATHLETES’ EXPERIENCES OF GLOBAL AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING by Lisa R. Trainor, Peter R.E. Crocker, Andrea Bundon, Leah Ferguson.

IJSEP publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. Editor’s pick from the current issue: Editor’s pick from the current issue: EXPLORING CAREER EXPERIENCES OF SWEDISH PROFESSIONAL HANDBALL PLAYERS: CONSOLIDATING FIRST-HAND INFORMATION INTO AN EMPIRICAL CAREER MODEL by Johan Ekengren, Natalia Stambulova, Urban Johnson & Ing-Marie Carlsson. (Open Access)

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers.