Sport Study Group Past Events

The group holds business and research meetings at the annual conference,and organizes, with a host institution, at least one research workshop each year.

Through the group´s membership of UK Sport´s International Conference Committee, several members per year are supported to attend international conferences such as those of the International Sociology of Sport Association, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, and the Sport Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Critical Issues in Sport and Physical Education:
BSA, Sport Study Group Postgraduate Forum hosted by Brunel University, Uxbridge
Date: 2nd September 2005

The aim of this forum is to help establish a postgraduate research community, presenting students with the opportunity to develop an appreciation of current postgraduate research within sport and the social sciences.

Postgraduate students will be provided with the opportunity to:

Deliver presentations to peers within a supportive, non-threatening environment.
Network and share ideas with other postgraduate students within the field.
Foster social relationships with other postgraduate students

The BSA Sport Study Group welcome theoretically informed papers from postgraduate research students working in fields of sport sociology, physical education, coaching, anthropology, pedagogy or related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

Sport and the Body

Organised in conjunction with the Centre for the Sociology of Sport (CSS) University of Leicester & Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society (WCSS) University of Warwick

Friday, 6th May 2005

Venue: University of Leicester

Speakers:

Chris Shilling, ‘Body Worlds and Sporting Worlds: On the ontology and classification of the Sports and Fitness Field’ (Portsmouth University)

Alex Twitchen, ‘From the bodies of warriors to athletes: the transformation of racing-drivers between 1950 and 2000’ (University College Chichester)

Emma Rich, ‘Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Role of Physical Education’  (Loughborough University)

Lee Monaghan, ‘Everyday Fatness, Fitness and Sport: reframing male embodiment in the somatic society’ (Newcastle University)

Annual Regional Seminar, on ´Drugs, Sport and Society´ to be held at University College Chester, 11th February 2005
 

SPORT, DISABILITY AND THE BODY

Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society (WCSSS) (University of Warwick, UK)
Centre for the Sociology of Sport (CSS) (University of Leicester, UK)

Friday 27th February 2004
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

BSA Sociology of Sport Study Group
Annual Regional Seminar
HEALTH, ILLNESS AND SPORT
16th May 2003
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

´Sport and Journalism´ (University of Brighton, November 2003

Sporting Icons: Celebrity, Media and Popular Culture
Date: 7th February 2003.
Venue: University of Leicester

University of Surrey Roehampton (on consumer lifestyles and new sports) Autumn 2000, and University of Ulster (Jordanhill / Belfast)for February 9-10 2001, on history and politics.