Tag: Routledge

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: Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs by William Crossan, Jan Šíma & Michaela Kaprálková.

We are particularly interested in how social change affects the structures, practices, and cultures of sport—and conversely, how sport contributes to or resists social transformation. This includes change within sport (e.g., policy shifts, organisational reforms, or evolving norms), change through sport (e.g., activist interventions, grassroots movements), and change outside sport (e.g., broader societal shifts) that impacts the sporting realm. Discrimination, marginalisation, and exclusion remain persistent challenges, but they are also being confronted in new and creative ways that merit rigorous scholarly attention.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Semantic changes in the meaning of ‘Olympic minimum’ by Udi Carmi & Shosh Shaked.

In July 2025, Orkney hosted the XX Island Games. The sporting competition is held every two years in a variety of polities on the Atlantic Rim; their first iteration was in 1985 on Isle of Man. The 40-year history of the Island Games and the International Island Games Association (IIGA) has featured a variety of non-sovereign polities, territories, dependencies, autonomous regions, council areas, and even formerly independent nations. The Island Games, and indeed sport in the Atlantic Rim’s peripheries, are crucial towards understanding a variety of historical and contemporary phenomena which have relevance far beyond the playing field.

This new book series showcases critical scholarship on race and/or racisms in sport and welcomes contributions from emerging and established scholars from the Global South and Global North. It is multi-disciplinary in scope, platforming research from all disciplines including sport studies, business, and management; as well as work from sociology, literature, history, philosophy, geography, feminism, cultural studies, politics, media studies, leisure studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, and beyond.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Maintaining professional face: deceptive impression management in community sport coaching by Lee J. Nelson, David Shulman, Paul A. Potrac, Laura A. Gale & Ben A. Ives (open access).

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Stronger together: towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex by Monica Nelson (open access).

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: An exploration of how dominant discourses steer U.K. strength and conditioning coach education by Christoph Szedlak, Bettina Callary, Kimberley Eagles & Brian T. Gearity (open access).

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices by B. Tolgfors, D. Barker, G. Nyberg & H. Larsson (open access).

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.