State of Sport Management

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!

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 leadership, and (c) plans for SMAANZ. Roslyn Kerr was instrumental in creating our topic for this episode but couldn't make the episode time. Much thanks to her in helping during the design phase.

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 planned / social components Changes from past iterations

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.

Our next episode dives into theory with a new ESMQ article from Erik Lachance, Ashley Thompson, & Jordan Bakhsh. We discussed competing theoretical thoughts, creating new theory in/out of sport, blending theoretical approaches, proposing a new approach, and what it means for doc students/practitioners.

Kicking off our sixth season with an episode on parenting. We follow up on our previous work with Liz Sattler to give insight into parenting, particularly post-pandemic. We talk about "what to expect when you're expecting", having multiple kids, daycare, balancing your schedule, bringing your kids to work events, and much more!

The NASSM episode! We had Dr. Bri Newland lead us off by talking about NASSM governance and conference changes from the past two years, plus an overview of the upcoming schedule. Then Dr. Milena Parent took the lead on Montreal! She overviewed transportation from the airport, amenities around the conference, and events happening in Montreal that coincide with NASSM.

We welcome Dr. Chad McEvoy to talk about negotiation, particularly when considering both outside offers and a chance to stay at your current institution. We discussed the need for some institutions to consider an outside offer to re-negotiate with your current employer, salary adjustments, when to go on the market/when not to, application process, getting an offer, next steps, etc.

Our Zeigler Award Winner annual chat! The 2022 winner, Dr. Larena Hoeber, joined us to talk about qualitative research. We discussed qualitative research paradigms: her first time being exposed to paradigms, learning moments as a up-and-comer, layering our learning, advice to others, qualitative researchers she admires, and advice for reviewing qualitative research!

Candidate (soon to be Dr.!) Kerri Bodin and Dr. Teare joined the podcast to talk about knowledge translation in program evaluation. We discussed the Canadian sport context, sport-for-all compared to high performance, resources available to sport, supporting sport-for-all through knowledge translation, examples through wheelchair basketball + Baseball5, and knowledge translation without a formal partnership.

Episode 2 of our series is Robyn Smith talking about participatory research! Candidate Smith talked about different approaches and key values of participatory research, applications in diverse sport/community contexts, poor uses of PAR, reflection on her own experiences, and a mindset change for the field. We also talked about her experience as a PhD candidate and working to finish her degree, help her research stakeholders, and being a positive impact in the community.

Hummell & Huml! PhD Candidate Hummell came to talk about program evaluation in sport organizations. We discussed what is evaluation, it's importance, why programs should be considering evaluation within their decision making process, program evaluation within the sport management literature, different approaches, benefits/limitations, and why it should be prioritized. This episode is the first in a group of episodes for the Knowledge Translation Grant secured by the Brock University SMGT faculty, led by Dr. Kyle Rich. Check out more on their work at: https://www.krichsportandrec.com/iisport

We had a great time hosting, Dr. Andrea Geurin, who is the Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough, to talk about her experiences working abroad and the various differences in higher education across different systems. We talked about summers being off (or not off!), annual leave, teaching loads, semester length differences, tenure, sabbatical options, student advising, higher education bureaucracy, grading, and much more!

Doctoral student, Tiao Hu, joined the podcast to provide her perspective of choosing and pursuing a PhD as an international student. We talked about her process choosing a PhD program. Then we talked about the challenges for international students in finding housing, securing a job, reviewing school districts for children, and creating a social network. Then we talked about potential higher education barriers, such as choosing an advisor and registering for courses. We finished our discussion talking about how her PhD program has been well suited to help her, areas of weakness, and upcoming job search.