State of Sport Management

Dr. Carlos Gomez Gonzalez joined us to talk about experimental design. We focused on his 2024 SMR publication (Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance) on how his research team used a unique methodological approach to collect data and present results through experimental design.

Dr. Chris Green joined us to talk about Laurence Chalip and his impact on the sport management field.

For this episode we welcomed Dr. Pamela Wicker to the podcast to talk about her role at Sport Management Review and the reviewer shortage. We discussed her role as editor, the process of finding reviewers, how editors decide on reviewers, the reviewer shortage (crisis?), and the consequences of that shortage.

Our annual Zeigler episode! Dean Damon Andrew joined to talk about his journey to becoming a sport management student, first thoughts about doing a PhD, becoming a faculty member at UL, and starting his career path. Then we discussed his Zeigler article (JSM): reputation of sport management, strengths and weaknesses, growth of enrollment, prominent programs, growth of faculty, and much more!

We want to creating cutting-edge research but also apply our knowledge to practitioners, but how? Sam Ehrlich joined to talk about his career journey and how he made a name for himself in research. Then, we talked about how that led to opportunities with practitioners and consulting growth.

We were joined by Dr. Jason Simmons at University of Cincinnati to talk about finding your research topic early in your career. The conversation started with his initial plans for research as a doc student, how his ideas transitioned, and how he settled on sport fandom being at the core. We then talked about early feedback from his advisor to reviewer/editor feedback that shaped his perspective.

The seventh season of the State of Sport Management kicks off with an announcement that this will be our final season. A couple early thank you's (will be more later this academic year), an overview of topics we plan on covering in our final year, and a note on the passing of Laurence Chalip this summer.

Our final live episode from the 2024 SMAANZ. We had an excellent panel of Nico Schulenkorf, Sally Shaw, Per Svensson, Heath McDonald, and moderated by Alison Doherty. They talked about their research, process, SMAANZ, and advice for others.

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.