State of Sport Management

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.

Our next episode focused on getting a teaching institution faculty job out of a PhD program. We had Dr. Jeffrey Ward from SUNY-Oneanta joined us to talk about his experience. We first talked about his military background and how that shaped his PhD and faculty experience. Then we transitioned to the period of dissertation defense to starting at a teaching school. Going from moving locations but al...

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.

We finish up our series on applying for grants with a lovely discussion with Dr. Katie Misener talking about the Canadian side of grants. We talked about her grant application/award success at the government and organizational level. We then reviewed the differences between the Canadian/US grant application process, how she identifies grant opportunities, lessons learned, and insights she provides...

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!

Our final pre-SMAANZ conference recording was joined by Hans Westerbeek and Adam Karg to talk about the future of sport. We discussed the concept and creation of EASM and SMAANZ, how those initial plans have shaped our current direction, important topics and consideration for where the sport management field is going, and their favorite SMAANZ moments. https://www.routledge.com/International-Sport...

Following up from our conversation with McLeod/Pifer on the faculty side of applying for grants, we interviewed Clair Green-Schwartz to talk about the admin support of the grant application process. Clair works at University of Cincinnati as the CECH Impact Accelerator Research Director. We talked about the trickiness of the grant application process, the value of university support for faculty gr...

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...

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!

We continue our SMAANZ collaboration with an episode on Women in Sport! Our guests for this episode include Sarah Lieberman and Sally Shaw to go over (a) the rise of women's sports (sports, levels, contexts), watershed moments, implications of sport management + research, (b) preparing sport management students for leadership in sport (curriculum design, mentoring, and advocating for leadershi...

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 new episode includes Jonathan Robertson, Ashleigh-Jane Thompson, and Kevin Filo as guests as we walk through the collaboration between State of Sport Management and SMAANZ! Topics covered include: Brief discussion on past conferences (what is SMAANZ?) Differences between SMAANZ, NASSM, EASM Importance of 2024 conference Conference theme SoSM/SMAANZ Collab SMAANZ Research Fellowship Events plan...

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.