Tag: qualitative research

Qualitative research in sport and exercise is firmly established and continues to expand at a rapid pace. It is increasingly celebrated for what it can offer within and beyond the academy in terms of understanding people’s perceptions, experiences, and meanings that they attribute to sport, physical activity, exercise and leisure. ​This conference is dedicated to promoting cutting edge empirical inquiry, advancements in qualitative methods, and debates about methods, theory, and practice and as they relate to conducting and learning from qualitative research in sport and exercise. 

There is a mini mountain of textbooks dedicated to research methods. They talk about how preparation is key to successful data collection. In the process they feed into the almost universal narrative that a successful data collection process will result in the gathering of a database that exactly matches what was planned. The impression that develops is that fieldwork must be perfect, that imperfections are failures, The result is seen in theses and methods sections in journal articles where no failures are apparent. Yet the reality is that fieldwork is often messy.

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: “Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces by Andrew Carter, Michael Dao, Adam Alexander & Vicky Gomez.

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: “What does skateboarding mean to you?” An exploratory study of Brazilian skateboarders’ developmental experiences by Guilherme H. Costa, Jill Kochanek & Karl Erickson.

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: Pleasure and danger: a running-woman in ‘public’ space by Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (open access).

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: “Is Everybody Comfortable?”#xd; Thinking Through Co-design Approaches to Better Support Girls’ Physical Activity in Schools by Michelle O’Reilly, Gareth Wiltshire, Nikki Kiyimba & Deirdre Harrington (open access).

The Journal of Teaching in Physical Education is pleased to announce a call for manuscripts for a special issue entitled “Emergent, Novel, and Non-Traditional Qualitative Research Methods: Beyond the Interview.” This special issue will highlight new and exciting forms of qualitative research that aim to answer important questions for the field of physical education while reconceptualizing qualitative data collection and analysis.

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: Fitness v fatness? Bodies, boundaries and bias in the gym by Charlotte Ross (open access).

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: All roads lead to Rome? Talent narratives of elite athletes, musicians, and mathematicians by Jannika M. John & Ansgar Thiel.

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: ‘I’m glad I can walk, but sometimes it’s so challenging that it’s an inconvenience to myself and others’: physical activity experiences among individuals with spinal cord injury who ambulate by Sarah Lawrason, Jennifer Tomasone, Kenedy Olsen & Kathleen Martin Ginis.