Tag: Vacancies

The available position in the field of Sport Pedagogy will focus particularly on research and development of motivating and physically activating learning and movement environments in the context of school physical education. This corresponds to two of the University of Jyväskylä’s research priorities: learning, teaching and interaction; and physical activity, health and wellbeing. The successful applicant will be responsible for research and education and the development of the field in collaboration with other teachers and researchers in the faculty.

This project offers the researcher an opportunity to undertake ground-breaking original research into the evolution of modern sports coaching as a vocation and/or profession. Here Weber’s work on the everyday meaning of profession and of coaching as a calling will be a useful heuristic tool.  The successful candidate will have unparalleled access to a private collection of coaching-related books, magazines, personal diaries, and correspondence letters amassed by a master sports coach.

At the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences we have an open temporary position as Associate Professor in Sport Management until 7 September 2026. Your work will be at our campus in Molde. We seek for imminent accession. The position is connected to our bachelor and master programmes in Sport Management, both specialized management programmes combining sport science with business administration and organisational studies.

At the Department of Sport Sciences, the contribution of sport to society is studied on the basis of problem complexes such as sport regulation and normativity, state, market and civil society relation to sport, sport’s own selection mechanisms, space and place, as well as the way societal structures and social categories, such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability, generation and social class, affect and are affected by sport and within the school subject (PE).

De Montfort University's (DMU) International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is a world-leading centre for the study of all aspects of sports history. Our members specialise in a range of themes and approaches to the history of sport, and we have a dynamic body of doctoral students whose work covers chess, the outdoor movement, women’s football, folk dance, boxing, race and ethnicity in sport, emotional histories of sport, sports diplomacy, and much more.

The Department of Sport and Social Sciences has a vacant PhD position with 25% teaching responsibilities in the field of sport marketing. There is the possibility to apply for one out of two alternative predefined PhD projects. One project will be focusing on sport marketing and the digital transformation in sport, and the second on sport marketing and sustainable development. Apply no later than December 5, 2022.

Co-funded by the University of Canberra and Sport Integrity Australia, the project will support a PhD scholar to complete a doctoral research program that will seek to identify mechanisms to reduce the insidious and increasing levels of toxic abuse online and cyber hate directed at women involved in the sport industry. In this project, we broadly define cyberbullying as hurtful messages that are threatening, humiliating, or intimidating to individuals.

As Assistant Professor of sports and body culture studies your primary tasks will be research and research-based teaching. You will teach and supervise students at Bachelor’s and Master’s level, and you will contribute to the development of the department through research of high international quality. In your daily work, you will work closely with both Danish and international colleagues. The position of Assistant Professor is a career development position in which you will receive supervision and pedagogical upgrading.

The School of Management at Massey University is offering a three-year scholarship to undertake doctoral research into either sustainable or technological innovations in sport, or sport organisational performance. While the doctoral scholarship is under the auspices of 'sport management', the topics, options and broader focus are more open and can potentially align with related interests from the sociology of sport for example.

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