Research Methodologies for Sport Scholarship

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Introduction: New problems, new challenges: embracing innovative approaches to sport research James Skinner and Terry Engelberg 1. Using qualitative methodology to better understand why females experience barriers to regular participation in adventure sport in Scotland Sarah Morton 2. Stories and stakeholders: how to explore the paradox of commercialism in sports Hans Erik Naess 3. Opportunities to interpret: a methodological discussion of insider research, perceptions of the researcher, and knowledge production Melissa C. Wiser 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 Holly Collison and David Marchesseault 5. Negotiating insider-outsider status in ethnographic sports research Danielle Sarver Coombs and Anne C. Osborne 6. Social validation: a motivational theory of doping in an online bodybuilding community Brendan Hutchinson, Stephen Moston and Terry Engelberg 7.Valuing the lived experience: a phenomenological study of skiing Kerensa Clark, Lesley Ferkins, Liz Smythe and Uma Jogulu 8. Doing descriptive phenomenological data collection in sport psychology research Lisa O'Halloran, Martin Littlewood, David Richardson, David Tod and Mark Nesti 9.Understanding implementation and change in complex interventions. From single- to multi-methodological research on the promotion of youths' participation in physical education Sine Agergaard, Silke Dankers, Mette Munk and Anne-Marie Elbe 10. Using transdisciplinary research to examine talent identification and development in sport Kristine Toohey, Clare MacMahon, Juanita Weissensteiner, Alana Thomson, Chris Auld, Anthony Beaton, Matthew Burke and Geoff Woolcock 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 Veerle De Bosscher 12. Event history analysis of longitudinal data: a methodological application to sport sponsorship Jonathan A. Jensen and Brian A. Turner 13. A case study of Twitter as a research tool Ben Corbett and Allan Edwards