Tag: Meredith A. Whitley

With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).

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: Menstrual Health Education in Sport for Development: A Case Study from Zambia by Sarah Zipp & Lombe Mwambwa (open access).

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: “I Realize My White Privilege Certainly Has Contributed to This Whole Experience”: White Undergraduate Sport Management Students Engagement With Racism in a Sport-For-Development Service-Learning Course by Max Klein, Garret J. Zastoupil, Justin Evanovich.

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: Diving into a new era: The role of an international sport event in fostering peace in a post-conflict city by Jada W. Lindblom, Eric Legg & Christine A. Vogt.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: United as one: the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup hosting vision and the symbolic politics of legacy bt Adam Scott Beissel & Geoffery Z. Kohe.

The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is a refereed journal designed to advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Athletes’ perspectives of preparation strategies in open-skill sports by Devin Bonk & Katherine A. Tamminen.

The aim of the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action is to provide psychology practitioners involved in the sport industry with sound information that is immediately applicable to their work. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: When COVID-19 Struck the World and Elite Sports: Psychological Challenges and Support Provision in Five Countries during the First Phase of the Pandemic by Carolina Lundqvist, Hannah Macdougall, Yoriko Noguchi, Anaëlle Malherbe & Fabien Abejean (open access).

JGSM aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Capability Approach as a Conceptual Bridge for Theory-Practice in Sport-for-Development by Michael Dao & Tavis Smith.

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: We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’ by Hillary Kipnis.

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: The impact of sport specialisation on the lived experience and development of collegiate softball players by Matt Moore & Mariah Sullivan.