The Sport in Society seminars
The Sport, Diversity and Social Change research group collaborates with internationally renowned academics. A few times per year, we organize public seminars and give the floor to sport sociology colleagues from all over the world to present and discuss their work.
Check the list below for upcoming seminars and speakers. All seminars are held at the Victoria University Footscray Park campus and are free for everyone to join.
Please register your attendance at the seminars by sending us an email and receive more information about the speaker and the seminar.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND SEMINARS
Building women's cycling
This presentation is aimed at cycling key stakeholders but is open to the broader cycling community and anyone interested in being part of the movement to enhance women's cycling. It outlines the research and outcomes from a report developed with Cycling Victoria and draws on a range of interviews with key people involved in women and girls cycling. The aim of the report was to investigate the barriers of women's participation in cycling and resulted in developing recommendations for how to enhance women's cycling in the future. The presentation is very open and feedback from interested parties is encouraged and welcomed. The responses and discussion from this event will shape the final report.
Verity Trott is an APR/AMSI Intern and a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her research is situated within the School of Culture and Communication. Our SDSC Research Group member dr Fiona McLachlan has been involved in the research project as a mentor.
Date and time: Wednesday 21 March 2018
Location: Theatre 2, Alan Gilbert Building
University of Melbourne
Victoria University, University of Melbourne & Cycling Victoria
Presentation research findings
Diversity and inclusion in junior sport
Professor Ramón Spaaij from Victoria University, Dr Ruth Jeanes, Monash University, and Professor Karin Farquharson from University of Melbourne will present their research findings from the first large-scale Australian study of diversity and inclusion in junior sport at the CMY symposium 'Building youth sport to be welcoming for all'. Click here for more information and registration.
Date and time: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Location: QV Women's Building 4th floor
210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Victoria University, Monash University, Melbourne University & Center for Multicultural Youth
Presentation research findings
PREVIOUS SEMINARS
Public lecture and HDR workshop
Dr Jacco van Sterkenburg is an internationally recognised research leader in the field of diversity and race relations in sport media, sport organisations and sports coaching. In his public lecture, Jacco used a cultural studies perspective to reflect on race and ethnicity in sport media as well as in sport coaching and leadership. In a half-day HDR workshop, Jacco shared his experiences in designing and conducting research projects and grant applications on diversity and race/ethnicity in sport.
Date: January 2018
Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
JACCO VAN STERKENBURG
Meredith Nash is senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania and visited the Sport, Diversity and Social Change research group in December 2017. Meredith is an interdisciplinary research leader in the fields of sociology of gender, health sociology, and human geography. Her work focuses on the gendered body as a way of understanding the relationships between people, place, politics, and culture.
Date: December 2017
University of Tasmania, Australia
MEREDITH NASH
Madeleine Pape’s research explores the intersections of gender, governance, and biomedicine. In this seminar Madeleine presents her project titled 'Cultures of Ignorance and the Reproduction of Binary Sex in International Sport'.
Date: December 6th, 2017
University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
MADELEINE PAPE
Rebecca Olive is a Lecturer in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on power, ethics and pedagogy with a focus on women and action/lifestyle sports, including social media, and on issues of method and praxis. In this seminar, Rebecca presents her most current work titled 'Sand in my pockets: Affective research, theory and practice'.
Date: September 15th, 2017
University of Queensland, Australia
REBECCA OLIVE
Dr Belinda Wheaton is Associate Professor in Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, NZ. Belinda is best known for her extensive research on the politics of identity in action/lifestyle sport. This seminar will be a presentation entitled 'Informal and lifestyle sport: an untapped potential for sport and social policy?'.
Date: August 28th, 2017
University of Waikato, New Zealand
BELINDA WHEATON
Dr Samantha-Jayne Oldfield is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, and is a core member of the university’s International Sport and Leisure History group (SpLeisH). Her presentation for this seminar is called 'England Netball: An Origins Story?'.
Date: July 28th, 2017
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
SAMANTHA-JAYNE OLDFIELD
Dr Murray Phillips is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland. His research interests cover the historical and contemporary dimensions of sport, and he is a Chief Investigator on a ARC Linkage-funded digital history project on the Australian Paralympic Movement. Today Murray presents 'Sport History as Public History: Paralympics and Storytelling in the Digital Age'.
Date: March 31th, 2017
University of Queensland, Australia
MURRAY PHILLIPS
Dr Rona Brodie is a professor at Dawson College located in Montreal, Quebec. In this seminar Rana discusses her projects entitled 'Pedagogical models in physical education classes'.
Date: April 2017
Dawson College, Canada
RONA BRODIE
Professor Thiel has been a full Professor for Sport Science since 2004, with a focus on Social and Health Sciences, at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (since 2010 as Director of Institute of Sport Science). He has led research projects in the areas of sociology and psychology in sports, health and the body, and the sociology of organisations. Professor Thiel will present on ‘The biopsychosocial health of young elite athletes – the GOAL study’.
Date: October 14th, 2016
University of Tubingen, Germany
ANSGAR THIEL
In September 2016, Professor Annelies Knoppers was a Visiting Professor at ISEAL. During her visit, she gave a public lecture on ‘What you (don’t) see: Learning about social categories through sport’, a seminar on 'Making professional bodies visible in sport organizations/research', and a workshop on writing/publishing in the sociology of sport and sport management.
Date: September 2016
University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
ANNELIES KNOPPERS
Christine Dallaire is full professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ottawa University in the United States. Christine studies sports and physical activity from a sociocultural perspective, with a particular focus on Canadian society and francophone communities. Her main area of research is the role of sport in the discursive construction of francophone and Canadian identities among youth.
Date: September 2016
University of Ottawa, US
CHRISTINE DALLAIRE
This edition of our 'Meet the Ethnographer' seminar series featured Dr Jorge Knijnik (Western Sydney University), one of the most original and prolific ethnographers of (Australian and Brazilian) sport. Jorge spent two weeks at our Sport in Society Research Laboratory to work on his current ethnography of football fandom and multiculturalism. In this seminar, Jorge discussed his ethnographic and auto-ethnographic work on sport in society.
Date: September 24th, 2015
Western Sydney University, Australia
JORGE KNIJNIK
In this instalment of our ‘Meet the Ethnographer’ series, Dr Bo Paulle demonstrates the application of social theory to his considerable ethnographic experience. Of special interest for HDR students is Bo’s ability, not only to theorize his data, but to use theory to inform on how to make changes to the field. Bo will be presenting work from his outstanding book, Toxic Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which is based on six years of teaching and research in two schools in the South Bronx and in Southeast Amsterdam. Dr Paulle takes us into the intimate embodied experiences of students and teachers and how they cope with chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression.
Date: December 3, 2015
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
BOWEN PAULLE
In January/February 2016, Professor Kevin Hylton was a Visiting Professor at ISEAL. During his visit he gave a public lecture on 'Understanding ‘Race’, Racism and Whiteness within Sporting Organisations'. He also hosted a half-day research training workshop designed for staff and HDR students to critically engage with their research design from the perspective of critical race theory (CRT). This approach to deconstructing research design allows the opportunity to uncover inherent biases, blind spots and forms of racism that often go undetected. Further, the workshop also provided opportunities to develop inclusive and equitable teaching and research strategies.
Date: January/February 2016
Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
KEVIN HYLTON
A discussion and review of a draft paper by Dr Brent McDonald titled ‘If it weren’t for rugby I’d be in prison now’: Pacific Islanders, Rugby and the production of (un)natural spaces’.
Date: August 19th, 2016
Victoria University, Australia
BRENT MCDONALD
This seminar explores pressing and emergent challenges in studying the often secretive dynamics of global sport governance with a particular focus on those related to corruption and transparency. It suggests that established anthropological and sociological approaches to multi-sited ethnography offer guidance in terms of how to empirically observe and analyse the transnational relationships that inform domains of sport governance.
Date: February 11th, 2016
Australian National University
