Daryl Adair is Associate Professor of Sport Management in the Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. research has encompassed sport history, sociology, politics, media and management. His recent interests are gender relations in sport, race and ethnicity in sport, and drugs in sport. His books include Sport: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity, Embodied Masculinities in Global Sport (with Jorge Knijnik), Managing the Football World Cup (with Stephen Frawley), and Global Sport-for-Development: Critical Perspectives (with Nico Schulenkorf). Adair writes regularly for The Conversation under the column "The Bounce of the Ball".
Michael Atkinson is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research and teaching interests focus on the social experience of suffering and pain in sport cultures, invisible disabilities, the phenomenology of insomnia, animal welfare in physical cultures, and ethnographic research methods. Michael is author/editor of eleven books, is past Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal, and is currently the co-Editor of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health.
Eric Anderson is a Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester, England. He holds degrees in health, psychology and sociology and has published 25 books and 75 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Professor Anderson's research excellence has been recognized by the British Academy of Social Sciences; and he is a Full Fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research and a Chartered Psychologist.
David L. Andrews is a Professor in the Physical Cultural Studies research area in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of American Studies, and the Department of Sociology. Dr. Andrews' research interests center on contextualizing sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary society. Recent books include Making Sport Great Again?: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (2019), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (2020, edited with Joshua Newman and Holly Thorpe).
Zoë Avner is a Lecturer in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University, UK. Her current research draws on poststructuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning and coaching ethics. Her work has appeared in various journals including Sports Coaching Review and Sport, Education and Society.
Richard Bailey is based in the Centre for Academic Partnerships & Engagement at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. After working as a schoolteacher, he carried out graduate studies in Epistemology, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Anthropology. Current research includes a Europe-wide study of the relationship between physical activity and educational achievement, cross-context inclusive education, and the philosophy of the Austrian psychiatrist/Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl.
Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, having previously worked at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He serves on several editorial boards. His work focuses on the relationship between sport and politics with a particular emphasis on sport, nations and national identities. Recent edited books include the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (with John Kelly and Jung Woo Lee), Sport and Body Cultures in East and South East Asia (with Friederike Trotier), and Sport and Secessionism (with Mariann Vaczi).
Adam S. Beissel is an Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University (OH - USA). His scholarship and teaching critically examines the cultural and political economies of global sport. He is currently working on a research project exploring the political economy of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup joint hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Andrew C. Billings is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting and Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (USA). With 22 books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters, he is one of the most published sports media scholars in the world. His works typically focus on the intersection of sport, media, and issues of identity.
Raymond Boyle is Professor of Communication and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has written widely on media and sport and is the author and co-author of a number of books on media issues, the latest being The Talent Industry published in 2018. He is also co-Managing Editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
Ian Brittain is an Associate Professor (Research) in the Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University, UK. His area of research interest is sociological, historical and sports management aspects of disability and Paralympic sport. He has published seven books in this field including The Paralympic Games Explained and The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies (with Aaron Beacom) and The Palgrave Handbook on Disability Sport in Europe: Policy, Structure, and Participation - A Cross-National Perspective (with Caroline van Lindert and Jeroen Scheerder).
Daniel D. Buckley is a Lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK where he currently teaches on the Sport, Health and Exercise programmes. He is currently completing his Doctorate which aims to provide an insight into different types of therapies for people living with dementia with a particular focus on reminiscence therapy.
Michael L. Butterworth is the Governor Ann W. Richards Chair for the Texas Program in Sports and Media, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, and Director of the Center for Sports Communication & Media at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on rhetoric, democracy, and sport, with particular interests in national identity, militarism, and public memory. He is an author or editor of Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity, Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field, Sport and Militarism, Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle, Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas, and the Handbook of Communication and Sport.
Nicholas R. Buzzelli is a doctoral candidate in the University of Alabama's Communication & Information Sciences graduate program. After earning a bachelor's degree in communication from Robert Morris University (2015), Buzzelli matriculated to Kent State University (2017), where he graduated with a master's degree in magazine journalism. His primary research interests are rooted in sports journalism processes and norms and the media's coverage of race and gender-based issues in sport.
Ben Carrington teaches sociology and journalism in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His books on sport include Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora, Marxim, Cultural Studies and Sport (edited with Ian McDonald), and the Blackwell Companion to Sport (edited with David Andrews). He has written widely on topics focused on the sociology of race, gender and culture, post/colonial theory, Marxism and culture, sport studies, media studies, and youth culture and music.
Laurence Chalip is Professor and Director of the School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management at George Mason University. He was the founding editor of Sport Management Review, later edited Journal of Sport Management, and has served on editorial boards of 19 other journals. He has published and consulted widely in sport management, for which he earned the Earl F. Ziegler Award from the North American Society for Sport Management and a Distinguished Service Award from the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. He also served as the International Chair of Olympism for the IOC and the Olympic Studies Centre.
Matej Christiaens is a Lecturer of Sport and Event Management at the School of Marketing and Management, Coventry University, UK. His area of research interest sports participation, gender in sport and sports management aspects of disability. His recent work includes a book chapter titled "United Kingdom: An Inclusionary Approach to Sport" (with Ian Brittain and Christopher Brown) in The Palgrave Handbook on Disability Sport in Europe: Policy, Structure, and Participation - A Cross-National Perspective.
Jay Coakley is Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He was the founding editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal and is an internationally recognized scholar. His textbook, Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (13th edition, 2021), along with adaptations and translations, is used in universities worldwide. He co-edited Inside Sports with Peter Donnelly and the Handbook of Sports Studies with Eric Dunning. He continues to do research and consulting focused primarily on making sports more democratic and humane for people of all ages and abilities.
Cheryl Cooky is Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She is the co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (2018). Her research is published in a diverse array of journals including the Communication & Sport, Gender & Society, Journal of Sex Research, Sex Roles, Sociology of Sport Journal, among others. She is the Editor of Sociology of Sport Journal. Committed to making research accessible to general audiences, Dr. Cooky has been quoted in over 100 national and international news media outlets.
T. Bettina Cornwell is the Philip H. Knight Chair in the Lundquist College of Business and Head of the Department of Marketing at the University of Oregon. Bettina's research has recently appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing and Academy of Management Review. Her research focuses on marketing communications and consumer behavior and often includes international and public policy emphases. The second edition of her book, Sponsorship in Marketing, was published 2020 and Influencer: The Science Behind Swaying Others, with co-author Helen Katz was published in 2021.
Seán Crosson is Senior Lecturer in Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group, and Co-Director of the MA in Sports Journalism and Communication at the University of Galway. His previous publications include the monographs Gaelic Games on Film: From Silent Films to Hollywood Hurling, Horror and the Emergence of Irish cinema (2019) and Sport and Film (2013) and the collections Sport, Film and National Culture (2020) and (as co-editor) Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (2010).
Jim Denison is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, Canada. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the formation of coaches' practices through a post-structuralist lens. Along with his numerous book chapters and referred articles, he edited Coaching Knowledges: Understanding the Dynamics of Performance Sport (2007) and co-edited Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research (2003). He serves on the Editorial Board of Sports Coaching Review and was co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching (2013).
Paul Dimeo is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland. He is co-Director of the International Network of Doping Research. He has published widely on various subjects including anti-doping history and policy. His books include The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions (with Vernon Møller), Elite Sport, Doping and Public Health (with Vernon Møller, and Michael McNamee), and Drugs, Alcohol and Sport.
Kevin Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Northumbria University, UK. He is author / co-author of 5 books and over 40 research papers and book chapters. His research largely focuses on the topic of 'sport and civic responsibility', which covers a breadth of important social issues from the role of sport in social inclusion, prejudice and stigma, identity formation and maintenance, consumerism, public health, criminal justice, and education.
Guillaume Dumont is an Assistant Professor at OCE Research Center, EMLyon Business School. He studied ethnographically the work of professional rock climbers in USA and Europe, and his recent books include Professional Climbers: Creative Work on the Sponsorship Labor Market (2018).
Adam Epstein is Department Chair and Professor, Finance and Law, at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He has written four textbooks including Sports Law and has published over 60 law articles. He has received numerous teaching and research awards and has been inducted into the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) as a Research Fellow. Adam has also received SRLA's Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award. His work (with Paul Anderson) was quoted by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He also serves on several editorial boards including the Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport.
Sheranne Fairley is Associate Professor in the School of Business at the University of Queensland. Dr. Fairley's research focuses on three major streams: sport and event tourism, volunteerism, and the globalization of sport. Her books include Rebranding and Positioning Australian Rules Football in the American Market and Renegotiating the Shanghai Formula One Event (with K. D'Elia). She is Editor-in-Chief of the research journal Sport Management Review.
Brian T. Gearity is Director and Associate Professor of Sport Coaching and online sport graduate certificate programs at the University of Denver. In addition to over 50 peer-review publications, he co-edited the book Coach Education and Development in Sport: Instructional Strategies and co-authored Understanding Strength and Conditioning as Sport Coaching: Bridging the Biophysical, Pedagogical and Sociocultural Foundations of Practice. He is Editor-in-Chief for the National Strength and Conditioning Association's practitioner journal NSCA Coach, and is on the editorial board for Sport Coaching Review, International Sport Coaching Journal, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, and Strength & Conditioning Journal.
Bill Gerrard is Professor of Business Management at Leeds University Business School in the UK. He has published academic papers on the methodology of economics, Keynesian economics, sports economics and sport management. His sports-based research has included the soccer players' transfer market, measuring team quality, coaching efficiency, stadium naming rights, the sporting and financial performance of pro sports teams, and the importance of shared team experience. He is a former editor of the European Sport Management Quarterly. Bill's principal focus in recent years has been developing data analysis as an evidence-based approach to coaching in soccer and rugby union.
Heather J. Gibson is a Professor of Tourism at the University of Florida. Her works cuts across the fields of leisure, tourism and sport with a focus on understanding behavioral choices in the context of gender, life span and wellbeing. She authored some of the seminal papers in sport tourism and incorporated her focus on women and mid and later life into the study of active sport tourism. She is a former managing editor of Leisure Studies and is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Tourism Research and the Journal of Sport & Tourism, among others.
Kass Gibson is an Associate Professor at Plymouth Marjon University, UK where he teaches research methods, social theory, and pedagogy. His research uses a range of sociological theories and research methodologies to understand experiences and practices in research, public health, and physical culture. He has published in journals such as British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Public Health, Psychology of Sport & Exercise, and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, the latter of which he sits on the editorial board.
Iva Glibo is a Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Chair of Sport and Health Management, Technical University of Munich. She has an educational background in physical education and sport management. Her current work focuses on the sustainable development in international sport policy and practice with occasional detours into the area of mental health inclusion in sport, in particular youth.
Ken Green is Professor of Sociology of Physical Education and Youth Sport and Head of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Chester, UK as well as Visiting Professor at Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Physical Education Review and his books include Understanding Physical Education (2008), Key Themes in Youth Sport (2010), The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport (2016, co-edited with Andy Smith), and Sport in Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries (2019, co-edited with Thorsteinn Sigurjónsson and Eivind Skille). His main research interests revolve around physical education and youth sport.
Jennifer Guiliano holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American Studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from Miami University (2000), a Masters of Arts in History from Miami University (2002), and a Masters of Arts (2004) in American History from the University of Illinois before completing her PhD in History at the University of Illinois (2010).
Edward T. Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at Northumbria University, UK. His scholarship is focussed on the relational, (micro)political and emotional complexities of sports work. Recent and ongoing research explores how networks of social relations influence the thoughts, feelings and (inter)actions of sport professionals, and how sense is made of experiences, relationships, and the self.
Peizi Han is a PhD student in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, majoring in the sociology of sport. Having graduated from Beijing Sport University, he was awarded an MSc in Sport Management at Loughborough University. His current work focuses on sport, nationalism, national identity, and naturalization in China.
Michael J. Hartill is a Professor in the sociology of sport and director of the Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport at Edge Hill University (Lancashire, England). In addition to research articles and book chapters, Mike authored Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport: A Sociocultural Analysis (2016). He recently co-led the EU-funded project 'VOICE', enabling direct engagement between the sport sector and individuals with personal experience of sexual abuse in sport. Alongside colleagues from across Europe he is currently investigating the scale and character of abuse experienced by athletes in different national contexts.
Douglas Hartmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research and media work focuses on race, sports, social movements, and public culture. He is the author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy and Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath. Professor Hartmann also co-edits (with Mike Messner) the "Critical Issues in Sport and Society" book series at Rutgers University Press.
April Henning is Lecturer in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Henning has published widely on topics related to health and substance use in sport. Her recent book (with Jesper Andreasson) Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies focuses on doping in sport and fitness, gender, and anti-doping policy. She is a director of the International Network of Doping Research and an Associate Editor at the journal Performance Enhancement and Health.
John Horne is currently Visiting Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Waseda University in Tokyo. He is past chair of the British Sociological Association, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Research Fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He is editor of two book series, Globalizing Sport Studies (Bloomsbury Academic and Manchester University Press) and Sociological Futures (Routledge/ British Sociological Association) and the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of several books, articles and book chapters, including Understanding the Olympics (2020, with Garry Whannel) and Mega-Events and Globalization (2016, edited with Richard Gruneau).
Steven J. Jackson is a Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), he has published widely in the areas of: sport, media, and advertising, globalisation, sport and national identity, and sport and masculinity. His recent books include: Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity (with Sarah Gee), Sport Policy in Small States (with Michael Sam), and Globalization, Sport and Corporate nationalism: The New Cultural Economy of the New Zealand All Blacks (with Jay Scherer).
Ruth Jeanes is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Ruth is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the use of sport and active recreation as a community development resource, particularly to address social exclusion amongst marginalised groups. She has published over 100 scholarly journal articles and book chapters and 5 books. She has successfully gained a range of research funding for her work including two highly competitive Australian Research Council funded projects. The most recent of these is examining informal sport as a health and social resource within diverse communities.
Patrick Foss Johansen is a PhD student and part-time lecturer at Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway. His research interests adopt sociological perspectives on youth sport and leisure, youth transitions, and public health in Norway. Patrick's publications include a co-authored works on parents, children, and sport published in Sport, Education and Society and a chapter on sports participation in Norway published in the book The Business and Culture of Sports.
Lauren M. Kamperman is a PhD candidate at Durham University in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, co-funded by the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS). She is currently researching experiences of inclusion and exclusion in dual career sport systems. Lauren holds an MA in Women's Studies from the University of York, UK. She has previously worked at the Women's Sports Foundation in New York City.
Lisa A. Kihl is an associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota and the Director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations. She has research expertise on the interconnections of sport ethics, policy, and governance in fostering responsible sport organizations. She has published extensively on the topics of corruption in sport, sport social responsibility, and athlete representation. She a Research Fellow and past-president of the North American Society of Sport Management.
Tara Keegan is an early career scholar. She received her PhD in history from the University of Oregon in 2021, where she also won various research and teaching awards. Her work has been supported by such organizations as the American Historical Association, the Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Bancroft Library. She studies Native modernity, popular culture, and sports, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous running.
Sigmund Loland is Professor of Sport Philosophy and Ethics at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo (NSSS), Norway. He has published extensively on topics such as fair play and sports justice, the ethics of performance-enhancing technologies in sport and society, and epistemological issues in the sport sciences. He is a former pro-chancellor of the NSSS, former President of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), and a current member of WADA's Ethics Board.
Ryan Lucas is currently undertaking doctoral studies at Monash University, with his research focusing on the sport for development policies targeting Indigenous Australians. Ryan's research interest is drawn from his professional experience, which has predominantly focused on the management of youth development programs in remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Ryan has also previously worked in the field of international sport for development, undertaking a long-term volunteering role promoting cricket development in the Solomon Islands. Ryan's research interests include sport for development policy, organisational effectiveness in sport for development, and approaches to Indigenous youth development.
Rory Magrath is Associate Professor of Sociology at Solent University, Southampton, in the UK. He is author of Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football, and co-author of Out in Sport: The Experiences of Openly Gay and Lesbian Athletes in Contemporary Sport. He has also edited three books and authored or co-authored 25 journal articles. His research focuses on declining homophobia and the changing nature of contemporary masculinities, with a specific focus on elite sport.
Dominic Malcolm is Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. During the 2000s his research increasingly focused on sociological aspects of sport, health and medicine, and latterly turned to the social and structural dimensions of concussion and sport. In particular, he has examined the concussion-related experiences of athletes and clinicians, the relationship between concussion and wider public debates about sports safety and proposed recommendations for enhancing safeguarding practices for sports injury. He is author of The Concussion Crisis in Sport (2000) and the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
Pirkko Markula is Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies of Physical Activity at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her research interests include poststructuralist analyses of dance, exercise, and sport. She is the author of Deleuze and the Physically Active Body (2019), co-author of Qualitative Research for Physical Culture (2011, with Michael Silk), co-author of Foucault, Sport and Exercise: Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self (2006, with Richard Pringle). She is the former editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal.
Daniel S. Mason is a Professor with the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. His research examines the business of sport and the relationships between all levels of government, sports teams and leagues, and host communities. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and he has published over 100 scholarly journal articles, books, and book chapters. In 2004 he was named a Research Fellow by the North American Society of Sport Management and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sport Management.
Elspeth J. Mathie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She has over 30 years of health and social care research experience, with a focus on older people and dementia. She is co-lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Applied Research Collaboration (East of England), Inclusive Involvement in Research theme, which explores how best to involve members of the public and patients in shaping, designing and prioritising research.
Mary G. McDonald is the Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research explores inequality as related to gender, race, class and sexuality. Dr. McDonald has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. She is co-editor of three anthologies including Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge with Jennifer Sterling (2020) and Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions with Matt Ventresca (2020). At Georgia Tech, she also directs the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts' Sports, Society, and Technology Program.
Toby Miller is Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa and Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Collaborator, Murdoch University. The author and editor of over fifty books, his work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, German, Italian, Farsi, French, Urdu, and Swedish. His most recent volumes are Violence (2021), The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture (2020), How Green is Your Smartphone? (co-authored, 2020), El trabajo cultural (2018), Greenwashing Culture (2018), Greenwashing Sport (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Global Cultural Policy (co-edited, 2018).
Gyozo Molnár is Principal Lecturer in Sport Studies at the University of Worcester (UK). His current publications revolve around migration, the Olympics, gender and populist politics. His current research, with Yoko Kanemasu, has focused on the migratory and gendered aspects of Fiji rugby. He is co-editor of The Politics of The Olympics (2010), Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research (2016), Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region (2018) and co-author of the Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An Introduction (2012).
Stuart Murray is an Associate Professor in International Relations (Bond University, Australia), Global Fellow of the Academy of Sport (University of Edinburgh), and an Associate Editor of the journals Diplomacy & Foreign Policy and the Journal of Public Diplomacy. The author of thirty-two peer-reviewed publications, Stuart recently published Sports Diplomacy: Origins, Theory and Practice, the first major book on the role sport plays in international diplomacy. He is also the Founding Director of the Sports Diplomacy Alliance, a global institution that regularly advises governments, non-state actors and sportspeople on how to harness the power of sport for positive outcomes.
Adam J. Nichol is a Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University, UK and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University, UK. His research interests focus on the critical sociological study of (non)influence and (micro)political astuteness in sport.
Catherine Ordway is Assistant Professor (Sports Management), University of Canberra, Australia. She is a sports lawyer with degrees from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Investigations Management. Catherine was awarded her PhD "Protecting Sports Integrity: Sport Corruption Risk Management Strategies" in 2019. Catherine's edited book Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions was published in April 2021. Catherine is a Senior Fellow with The University of Melbourne Law School, an affiliated scholar with the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), and an Expert Consultant with SIGPA (Sports Integrity & Governance Partners).
Catherine Palmer is Professor of Sociology at the Northumbria University in the UK. Catherine's research marries empirical and theoretical insight across a range of topics including sport and alcohol, and fitness philanthropy. Her work has appeared in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport in Society, Journal of Gender Studies, Social & Cultural Geography, and Sociology of Sport Journal. She has received significant funding for her research from national and international funding bodies. Her most recent book is Sports Charity and Gendered Labour.
Andrew Parker is Professor of Sports Ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, UK where his research interests focus on the connections between sport, spirituality and social identity. Published outputs reflect these interests and have appeared in periodicals such as Practical Theology and Studies in World Christianity. He has served on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal and Qualitative Research. He is a former co-editor of the International Journal of Religion and Sport.
Elizabeth C.J. Pike is Professor and Head of Sport, Health and Exercise at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her research focuses on the potential of sport and physical activity to address issues of equality and diversity, with particular attention to improving opportunities for females and older adults in and through sport. She has more than 50 research publications, and delivered keynote presentations at international conferences on six continents. She is co-founder of the Anita White Foundation and Past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association.
Paul A. Potrac is a Professor in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University. He also holds Visiting Professorships at University College Dublin and Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research and teaching interests focus on the micropolitical, dramaturgical, and emotional demands of sports work, especially coaching and coach education.
Emma Pullen is a lecturer in the sociology of sport and sport management at Loughborough University, UK. Her research is primarily focussed on sport, social inclusion, and disability. Emma has published articles in a range of journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Katherine Raw is an Academic Course Advisor and Lecturer in Sport Development at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses upon the use and management of sport as a vehicle to foster a variety of community outcomes, including social cohesion, inclusion, health, gender equity, and diplomacy. Her work has been conducted in partnership with a number of organisations, including Tennis Australia, the NRL, Netball Australia, North Melbourne Football Club, Tennis NSW, and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Katherine's fieldwork has been completed across a range of locations both locally and internationally, some of which include Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, and Timor Leste.
Martin Roderick is Professor and Head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. His research focuses on professional athletes' lived experiences; work, identity, and wellbeing in sport; and the roles that space, and place play in mental health in sport. His books include Sport in Films (with Emma Poulton), and he serves on the editorial board of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health.
David Rowe is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath; and Research Associate, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London. His books include Popular Cultures; Sport, Culture and the Media; Sport Beyond Television (authored with Brett Hutchins); and Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship (edited with Jay Scherer). A frequent expert media commentator, David's work has been translated into nine languages. His book Global Media Sport was a 2018 Outstanding Book Selection of the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea.
Suzanne Ryder is a PhD candidate and casual lecturer in the Institute of Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne. Her ethnographic research focuses on the gender and labour relations in professional women's road cycling.
Parissa Safai is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Her research interests focus on the critical study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare including the social determinants of athletes' health. Her interests also centre on sport and social inequality with focused attention paid to the impact of gender, socio-economic, and ethnocultural inequities on accessible physical activity for all.
Michael P. Sam is an associate professor in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago. His research comprises areas of policy, politics and administration as they relate to the governance of sport. He has published widely in both sport studies and policy journals and has co-edited three books: Sport in the City: Cultural Connections (2011), Sport Policy in Small States (2016) and Case Studies in Sport and Diplomacy (2017). Mike currently serves as co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy and Politics and is the President for the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA).
Jimmy Sanderson is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management at Texas Tech University. His research centers on social and its intersection with sport, along with health and family communication in sport. He is the author of several books related to sport and social media and has authored or co-authored over 80 journal articles and book chapters.
Emma Sherry is a Professor of Management at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She is an internationally regarded expert in the area of sport for development and is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Sport for Development. She currently sits on the editorial boards of leading sport management journals, including Sport Management Review, Journal of Sport Management, and European Sport Management Quarterly. Emma publishes widely in sport management and sociology, her work focuses on sport for development, social inclusion, and access, equity and diversity in sport.
Barry Smart is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth in England. He is the author of ten books, including The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity and Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences, nine edited volumes and reference works, and over a hundred journal articles and book chapters. His work ranges across a number of fields, including critical social theory and political economy, and in the field of sports studies his focus has been on cultural and economic aspects.
Andy Smith is Professor of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK. He is Managing Editor of Leisure Studies and former founding co-editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics for whom he now serves on the Editorial Board. He is also on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and European Physical Education Review. Andy is the co-author of eight books, including the Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport (with Ken Green), and his work focuses on youth, sport, physical activity and mental health in community and professional sport and leisure.
Ramón Spaaij is Professor in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Australia. He also holds a Professorial Chair in Sociology of Sport at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on sport, diversity, social change, and violence. His books include The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics (2018), The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism (2017), Routledge Handbook of Football Studies (2016), Mediated Football: Representations and Audience Receptions of Race/Ethnicity, Nation and Gender (2015), and Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society (2014).
Emily S. Sparvero is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is the faculty director of the online Sport Management Master's program. Her research focuses on the ways in which sport assets can be leveraged to generate economic, social, and tourism benefits for host communities. Her recent work has examined the financial management of professional sport team charitable foundations and the public health impact of corporate social responsibility programs.
Jennifer J. Sterling is a Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests revolve around the disciplinary intersections of Sport Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Digital Humanities, and Visual Culture. In particular, her research explores how techno-scientific practices, including data analytics and visualization, shape understandings of active bodies and affect sporting inequalities. She teaches courses focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in sport, international sport and globalization, and techno-scientific cultures of sport.
Minhyeok Tak is a Lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. His research interests include governance issues around sports betting and institutional designs of sport development system behind integrity issues such as match-fixing, corruption and abuse. His work has been published in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practices, and Crime, Law and Social Change.
Holly Thorpe is a Professor at Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research, published in over 100 articles and chapters, focuses on informal and action sports, youth culture, gender, female athlete health, and sport for development and recovery. Her recent books include the co-edited anthology Sport, Physical Culture and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (with Joshua Newman and David Andrews), the co-authored Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement (with Julie Brice and Marianne Clark), and Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future (with Belinda Wheaton).
Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton UK. He has served as Editor of the journals Leisure Studies and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, edited or authored more than forty books/volumes, and published over 150 scholarly journal articles and book chapters. Recent interdisciplinary studies include Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football, and Populism in Sport, Leisure and Popular Culture (with Bryan C. Clift).
Travers is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. They are the author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution. In addition to a focus on transgender issues in general, they have published widely on issues related to sport, gender, sexuality and social justice. Travers is currently Deputy Editor of the journal Gender and Society.
Nick J. Watson is Chief Operating Officer of the Archbishop of York Youth Trust, UK, and Founder of the Global Congress on Sports and Christianity. Formerly, he was Associate Professor in Sport and Social Justice, York St John University, UK. Nick has also coached soccer in the US, Spain and the UK.
Sharon Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellbeing and programme leader for the BSc (Hons) Public Health and Wellbeing and MSc Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing at Wrexham Glynd?r University. Drawing predominately on the disciplines of sociology and psychology, Sharon's research expertise and interests span a number of areas, including developing active lifestyles, green exercise and wellbeing, and health inequalities and social justice.
John Williams is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, and Co-Director of the unit for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement (DICE) at Leicester, UK. He began his research career exploring fan hooliganism but has since been involved in research and writing on sports cultures, fandom, and issues of fairness and equality in sport. His books include: Offside? Women and Football (1999); Passing Rhythms (2001); Into the Red (2001); Groove Armada (2006); (with Andrew Ward) Football Nation (2009); Red Men (2010); and The Game (2018, with Stuart Clarke).
Kevin Young is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary in Canada. His research and teaching interests bridge Criminology and Sociology of Sport. He has published widely on matters relating to violence, gender, body and health, and the use of animals in sport. Kevin is former Vice President of the International Sociology of Sport Association, and he has served on the editorial boards of several recognized journals. He is also an award-winning teacher, and a regular graduate student supervisor. His recent books include Sport, Violence and Society (2nd edition, 2019).
