Lediga platser | Professor i Management, inriktning mot idrott och hälsa, till Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH | Ansök senast den 7 december 2025 Som professor i management vid GIH blir du en central kraft i att bygga en forskningsmiljö och etablera ett forskningsområde som bidrar till ny kunskap om organisering, ledning och utveckling av hälsa...

Som professor i management vid GIH blir du en central kraft i att bygga en forskningsmiljö och etablera ett forskningsområde som bidrar till ny kunskap om organisering, ledning och utveckling av hälsa och idrott.
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International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching - Volume 20, Number 6 Table of contents for International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 20, 6

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International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, Volume 20 Issue 6, December 2025
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Here’s why morning exercise feels so hard It’s not just down to being a night owl or an early bird. There’s a large body of evidence to show most of us are stronger and faster later in the day.

HERE’S WHY MORNING EXERCISE FEELS SO HARD
By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia
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Frontiers | Reviving the forgotten: breathing life into urban wastelands through skateboarding and decolonial placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya Skateboarding in Nairobi, Kenya, offers young people ways of asserting subjectivity, reimagining the city through movement, care, and shared presence. Based ...

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“Reviving the forgotten: breathing life into urban wastelands through skateboarding and decolonial placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya”, by Athanasios Tsipis & Sepandarmaz Mashreghi, available online and open access.
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Timing Is Everything: An Analysis of the Relative Age Effect in a Professional Football Club The Relative Age Effect (RAE) refers to the advantage that athletes born earlier in the selection year have over their later-born peers. This study an…

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“Timing Is Everything: An Analysis of the Relative Age Effect in a Professional Football Club”, by José Coto-Lousas, Jacob Sierra-Diaz, Pablo Saiz-González, and Sixto González-Víllora, available online ahead of print in Football Studies.
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The future of rugby league in Australia, NZ and the Pacific is here – and it’s brown As the Pacific Cup finals play out this weekend, the Pasifika influence on rugby league – on and off the field – has big implications for the trans-Tasman game.

THE FUTURE OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA, NZ AND THE PACIFIC IS HERE – AND IT’S BROWN
By Phil Borell, University of Canterbury, and Dion Enari, Associate Professor, Ngā Wai a Te Tūī (Maori and Indigenous Research Centre), UNITEC Institute of Technology
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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance Volume 96, Issue 9 of Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Volume 96, Issue 9 (2025)
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Senaste nyhetsbrevet från Idrættens Analyseinstitut
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International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 18, 2025, No. 3 | Politics, Sport, and Communication: A Global Perspective The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. T...

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The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: “CRIMINALS” AND “KILLJOYS”: AN EXPLORATORY NEWS MEDIA MAPPING OF THE ENVIRONMENT-SECURITY POLITICS AT THE OLYMPICS by Adam Ehsan Ali, MacIntosh Ross, jay johnson.
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Vacancy | Dean / Manutaki, School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | Application due November 23, 2025 We are seeking a visionary and strategic leader to become our new Dean / Manutaki for the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences. Renowned for its excellence in teaching, research, ...

We are seeking a visionary and strategic leader to become our new Dean / Manutaki. Renowned for its excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement, the School wants a leader who brings academic credibility, strategic vision, and a collaborative spirit.
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Tidiga urval utmanar rättvisan i idrottsgymnasiernas antagning Att bli antagen till idrottsgymnasium kan avgöra en ung idrottares framtid. Men till många skolor görs urval redan innan den officiella antagningen ens har börjat. Hur rättvist är systemet – och vad f...

NY ARTIKEL PÅ IDROTTSFORSKNING.SE
”Tidiga urval utmanar rättvisan i idrottsgymnasiernas antagning”, av Filip Andersson, Linnéuniversitetet (open access).
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Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health Volume 17, Issue 6 of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, Volume 17, Issue 6 (2025)
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The role of English public schools and classicism in the development of modern sports Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between ...

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Hans Bolling, in his review of Andy Carter’s «Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914» (Peter Lang), calls it an excellent book.
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Game rules, sport rules, review rules – how hard can it be? Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules – of which there are only five kinds. Indeed, rules are the one and only ...

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A review of «The Rule Book» (MIT Press) by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola by our somewhat reluctant reviewer Bo Carlsson, sport law expert who claims no knowledge of game rules, but his review says otherwise.
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International Journal of Sport Finance, Volume 20, 2025, Issue 2 IJSF serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics. The mission to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of rese...

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The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: REFERENCE POINTS, LOSS AVERSION, AND SPORT: TEXT ANALYSIS OF FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHT COMMENTS by Eunsoo Park, Yoonji Ryu, Wonseok Jang, Gyemin Lee, Hyunwoong Pyun (open access).
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Journal of Sports Economics, Volume 26 Issue 8, December 2025
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“Women, sport and social inclusion in Saudi Arabia”, by Kyra Margarete Angerer, available online and open ccess ahead of print in International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
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Call for Papers | “Contested Perspectives on Doping & Anti-Doping”, 2026 INDR Conference | Aarhus University, Denmark, August 20–21, 2026. Call ends May 1, 2026 The International Network for Doping Research (INDR) will host its 2026 conference at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 20 and 21 August 2026. The conference welcomes s...

The conference welcomes scholars who examine doping, enhancement, and anti-doping in their varied cultural, social, political, ethical, and scientific dimensions.
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The International Sports Law Journal, Vol. 25, 2025, Issue 3 | The Evolution of Lex Olympica The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related inf...

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The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: INTEGRATING THE OLYMPIC TRUCE INTO INTERNATIONAL LAW: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN CASE by Antonio Du Marco (open access).
Click below for full ToC with links to abstracts.
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How the physics of baseball explains Blue Jay Kevin Gausman’s signature pitch With the Toronto Blue Jays on the cusp of a World Series title, pitcher Kevin Gausman’s mastery of the splitter is not just athletic skill, it’s a brilliant application of physics.

HOW THE PHYSICS OF BASEBALL EXPLAINS BLUE JAY KEVIN GAUSMAN’S SIGNATURE PITCH
By Patrick Clancy, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
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Running ‘super shoes’ may make you faster – but at what cost? Researchers are questioning whether the very features that are meant to boost performance may actually increase the risk of running-related injuries.

RUNNING ‘SUPER SHOES’ MAY MAKE YOU FASTER – BUT AT WHAT COST?
By Joel Fuller and colleagues at Macquarie University and University of South Australia.
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Call for Papers | “Beyond the Game: The Economics, Governance, and Social Aspects of Esports”, Special Issue of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal | Call ends December 31, 2025 In recent years, the growth of esports industry has been driven by the development of computers, the internet, media, and live streaming. Moreover, esports have become a vital and popular aspect of vi...

Due to the tremendous growth of esport industry, many scholars have investigated diverse area related to esport. However, significant theoretical and practical gaps exist that necessitate further scholarly and industry attention in the realm of esport.
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International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training
Volume 30 (2025): Issue 6 (Nov 2025)
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International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Volume 23, Issue 6 of International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Volume 23, Issue 6 (2025)
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Ambitious coaching textbook focusing the female athlete The knowledge base in sports physiology, exercise science and medicine is largely based on research conducted on men. Den kvinnelige idrettsutøveren [The female athlete], edited by Øyvind Sandbakk, Gu...

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«Den kvinnelige idrettsutøveren» [The female athlete], edited by Ø. Sandbakk, GS Solli & H. Staff provides practical recommendations in training, health and performance for the female athlete. Review in English and Swedish by Gunn Nyberg.
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That Was The Week That Was, October 27 — November 2, 2025 idrottsforum’s weekly newsletter gives you the past week’s on-site activities in your mailbox every Monday morning, in the form of a letter with a link to a web page presentation of new publications. ...

EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!
idrottsforum’s weekly newsletter gives you the past week’s on-site activities in your mailbox every Monday morning, in the form of a letter with a link to a web page presentation of new publications.
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Kinesiology Review, Volume 14 (2025): Issue 4 (Nov 2025): 2025 American Kinesiology Association Leadership Workshop: Faculty Success in Higher Education
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Call for Papers | Panel on the History of Bicycle and Cycling in Asia | Lahore University, Pakistan, September 25–27, 2026. Call ends December 5, 2025 Our proposed session explores how the bicycle as an unassuming yet transformative technology, reshaped mobility, governance, and everyday life across diverse Asian contexts. We invite contributions th...

We invite contributions that investigate the social and cultural dimensions of cycling, from its regulation and circulation to its roles in shaping class, gender, and aspiration.
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The diversity of organised grassroots football in Denmark 2024: A follow-up study focusing on age, gender, ethnicity and sexuality This follow-up study by Søren Bennike, Claes Madsen and Adam B. Evans presents quantitative measures of diversity amongst 10,945 respondents, including club members (players), club boards, coaches, ed...

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This study by Søren Bennike, Claes Madsen and Adam B. Evans presents quantitative measures of diversity among 10,945 respondents, including club members (players), club boards, coaches and educated licensed referees.
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“Sexual harassment and abuse in the equine sector”, by Susanne Johansson, Nina Sølvberg, Åse Strandbu, Lovisa Broms & Susanna Hedenborg, available online and open access ahead of print in International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
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