State of Sport Management

We have our next SMAANZ live recording! A great quartet of sport management leaders (Russell Hoye, Emma Sherry, Lesley Ferkins, and James Skinner) discussed their leadership experiences, backgrounds, and advice to those interested in future leadership opportunities.

Our annual Zeigler Award episode. We were joined by the 2024 winner, Dr. Dan Mason!

We talked about how he arrived in the sport management field, his experiences as a grad student, advice he would give to grad students, the research process, and general thoughts on sport management.

We have our first live recording from the SMAANZ conference! Dr. David Shilbury provided an excellent review of the 30 years of SMAANZ and the growth of Sport Management Review since its creation in 1998.

Coming back from SMAANZ and wanting to complete an interview with the newly-minted Distinguished Service Award, Geoff Dickson. He talked about being a "late starter", experiences being a faculty member while finishing his PhD, the power of networking, his George Cunningham story about being a writer, living in NZ + AU, and golf!

We were joined by Dr. Laurence Chalip, founding editor for Sport Management Review, to talk about the establishment and early years of SMR. We talked about the planning, recruitment of authors/reviewers, establishing a footing, what changed over time, and uniqueness for the journal. We also talked about the beginning of SMAANZ and the relationship with the journal.

Are you interested in applying for grants? Is your faculty position pushing for more grant activity? Then check out this episode with David Pifer (FSU) and Chris Mcleod (UF) talk about their recent grant application experiences with both private and federal grants.

We have a new episode on the experience of going from a sport management doc student to becoming a faculty member outside of sport management!

Dr. Keevan Statz at Benedictine College joined us to walk through his experience. He talked about his experience choosing a doc program, his plans during PhD work, networking approach, conference attendance, job search process, and explaining his background to non-sport folks.

We had two great guests join us to talk about evaluating teaching. Sarah Wymer and Kim Encel walked us through how we can evaluate and self-evaluate our teaching abilities. We started with some low-hanging fruit then moved to move advanced ideas. We finished up with talking about how to take advantage of university resources and outside resources!

Welcome the Sherry and Schulenkorf Show! Emma Sherry and Nico Schulenkorf joined us to talk about Sport for Development (SFD). We discussed SFD going from upstart area to adolescence, important findings over the past 10 years, importance of SFD within Australasia footprint, difficulties of performing SFD research, and future areas/context.

Our annual Zeigler podcast episode! This year's winner was Marijke Taks, who joined us to talk about her career journey. She talked about her PhD experience, transitioning to Canada, balance work and family, and her research along the way.

In the second part of our conference costs discussion, Dr. Kyle Rich joined us to provide perspective. We discussed his conference, benefits of running a smaller or larger conference, location value/cost, and the changing dynamics within the conference model.

The first part of our conference costs short series. Dr. Nels Popp walks us through the rising conference costs. We talk about conference site selection, hotel/host costs, conference experiences, and survey insights.

Really excited for this episode. With the huge push of AI happening this year, we brought in Dr. Yiran Su to talk about the intersection of AI and sport management. Our episode focused on academic (teaching + research) and practitioner impact. We talked about ChatGPT, Zoom, and other tech platforms!

We've talked before about collaboration on a research project, but now we want to talk about solo authorship. Dr. Elizabeth Delia at UMass joined to talk about her past experience working on solo papers: deciding on projects, writing sections, reviewer feedback, project management, and advice she would give to others.