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Author:   James Skinner ,  Terry Engelberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781138588325

ISBN 10:   1138588326
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   15 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: New problems, new challenges: embracing innovative approaches to sport research 1. Using qualitative methodology to better understand why females experience barriers to regular participation in adventure sport in Scotland 2. Stories and stakeholders: how to explore the paradox of commercialism in sports 3. Opportunities to interpret: a methodological discussion of insider research, perceptions of the researcher, and knowledge production 4. Finding the missing voices of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): using a ‘Participatory Social Interaction Research’ methodology and anthropological perspectives within African developing countries 5. Negotiating insider–outsider status in ethnographic sports research 6. Social validation: a motivational theory of doping in an online bodybuilding community 7.Valuing the lived experience: a phenomenological study of skiing 8. Doing descriptive phenomenological data collection in sport psychology research 9.Understanding implementation and change in complex interventions. From single- to multi-methodological research on the promotion of youths’ participation in physical education 10. Using transdisciplinary research to examine talent identification and development in sport 11. A mixed methods approach to compare elite sport policies of nations. A critical reflection on the use of composite indicators in the SPLISS study 12. Event history analysis of longitudinal data: a methodological application to sport sponsorship 13. A case study of Twitter as a research tool

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James Skinner is a Professor of Sport Business, Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University, London, UK. His research interests are in leadership, culture, change and innovation in sport, doping in sport, sport and social capital and research design and methods for sport business. Terry Engelberg is an Associate Professor: Department of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Terry has previously conducted seven major studies on anti-doping in Australia and a project on detecting doping, funded by the inaugural International Olympic Committee.

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