Dr. Justen O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Dillon and Risto talk with him about his co-authored article about informal sport. This was so fascinating for us we kept talking after and will release that as a separate episode on youth sport and informal sport.

Citation: "Jeanes, R., Spaaij, R., Penney, D., & O’Connor, J. (2018). Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 1-17."

Justen's Bio

Justen has research experience that utilises systems thinking, social ecology and strengths-based approaches to explore curriculum and pedoagogy associated with health, physical education, sport and lifetime physical activity. Justen also has an interest in social justice within education as well as informal forms of participation in movement. Justen is fluent in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and has expertise in designing scales for measurement.