Tag: Social Sciences

This Special Issue aims to showcase critical scholarship that examines gender-based violence in the organized sport context across interpersonal, institutional and structural levels. Contributions are welcome to explore gender-based violence directed toward individuals or groups of any gender and may include examinations of unequal power dynamics, gender norms and intersecting systems of oppression. By deepening our collective understanding of this important issue, we aim to identify actionable strategies for advocacy, policy reform and practice that can lead to safer sport environments.

De Montfort University's International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is open to individuals outside the UK who would be interested in applying for the British Academy International Fellowship. This programme, run jointly with the Royal Society, provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.

The focus of postgraduate education in sport sciences specializing on social sciences and the humanities lies on the various forms of sport and on their past, present and future importance to society. The education program comprises a range of areas from competitive, recreational and experience sports to sport as a school subject including outdoor education, physical recreation and ecological sustainability.

This special issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary discussions and analyses on contemporary sport, its transforming nature, and social issues connected to our way of understanding both sport and broader social life. With “rethinking sport” we want to emphasize the everchanging nature of sport. The issue welcomes contributions from a wide variety of perspectives including sociology, sport science, social work, cultural studies, gender studies, pedagogy, and more.

The rationale for this Special Issue is to contribute to knowledge with a collection of papers on socio-cultural outcomes and impacts as effects of mega-events on host communities from a multidisciplinary perspective. We will explore the methodological and conceptual challenges such work poses, and showcase opportunities and efforts for mitigating the unsustainable aspects of mega-event policies and practices.