Research Methodologies for Sports Scholarship

Herausgeber: Skinner, James; Engelberg, Terry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces innovative research methods and approaches can be applied to the sport discipline. It was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590895
• ISBN-10: 0367590891
• Artikelnr.: 60043544

Autorenporträt

James Skinner is a Professor of Sport Business, Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University, London, UK. His research interests are in leadership, culture, change and innovation in sport, doping in sport, sport and social capital and research design and methods for sport business. Terry Engelberg is an Associate Professor: Department of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Terry has previously conducted seven major studies on anti-doping in Australia and a project on detecting doping, funded by the inaugural International Olympic Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New problems, new challenges: embracing innovative approaches
to sport research 1. Using qualitative methodology to better understand why
females experience barriers to regular participation in adventure sport in
Scotland 2. Stories and stakeholders: how to explore the paradox of
commercialism in sports 3. Opportunities to interpret: a methodological
discussion of insider research, perceptions of the researcher, and
knowledge production 4. Finding the missing voices of Sport for Development
and Peace (SDP): using a 'Participatory Social Interaction Research'
methodology and anthropological perspectives within African developing
countries 5. Negotiating insider-outsider status in ethnographic sports
research 6. Social validation: a motivational theory of doping in an online
bodybuilding community 7.Valuing the lived experience: a phenomenological
study of skiing 8. Doing descriptive phenomenological data collection in
sport psychology research 9.Understanding implementation and change in
complex interventions. From single- to multi-methodological research on the
promotion of youths' participation in physical education 10. Using
transdisciplinary research to examine talent identification and development
in sport 11. A mixed methods approach to compare elite sport policies of
nations. A critical reflection on the use of composite indicators in the
SPLISS study 12. Event history analysis of longitudinal data: a
methodological application to sport sponsorship 13. A case study of Twitter
as a research tool