Our annual Zeigler episode! Dean Damon Andrew joined to talk about his journey to becoming a sport management student, first thoughts about doing a PhD, becoming a faculty member at UL, and starting his career path. Then we discussed his Zeigler article (JSM): reputation of sport management, strengths and weaknesses, growth of enrollment, prominent programs, growth of faculty, and much more!

We want to creating cutting-edge research but also apply our knowledge to practitioners, but how? Sam Ehrlich joined to talk about his career journey and how he made a name for himself in research. Then, we talked about how that led to opportunities with practitioners and consulting growth.

Our next episode focused on getting a teaching institution faculty job out of a PhD program. We had Dr. Jeffrey Ward from SUNY-Oneanta joined us to talk about his experience. We first talked about his military background and how that shaped his PhD and faculty experience. Then we transitioned to the period of dissertation defense to starting at a teaching school. Going from moving locations but also the challenges of many course preps while acclimating to new school systems.

We were joined by Dr. Jason Simmons at University of Cincinnati to talk about finding your research topic early in your career. The conversation started with his initial plans for research as a doc student, how his ideas transitioned, and how he settled on sport fandom being at the core. We then talked about early feedback from his advisor to reviewer/editor feedback that shaped his perspective.

The seventh season of the State of Sport Management kicks off with an announcement that this will be our final season. A couple early thank you's (will be more later this academic year), an overview of topics we plan on covering in our final year, and a note on the passing of Laurence Chalip this summer.

Our final live episode from the 2024 SMAANZ. We had an excellent panel of Nico Schulenkorf, Sally Shaw, Per Svensson, Heath McDonald, and moderated by Alison Doherty. They talked about their research, process, SMAANZ, and advice for others.

We have our next SMAANZ live recording! A great quartet of sport management leaders (Russell Hoye, Emma Sherry, Lesley Ferkins, and James Skinner) discussed their leadership experiences, backgrounds, and advice to those interested in future leadership opportunities.

We finish up our series on applying for grants with a lovely discussion with Dr. Katie Misener talking about the Canadian side of grants. We talked about her grant application/award success at the government and organizational level. We then reviewed the differences between the Canadian/US grant application process, how she identifies grant opportunities, lessons learned, and insights she provides to faculty wanting to get into grants.

Our annual Zeigler Award episode. We were joined by the 2024 winner, Dr. Dan Mason!

We talked about how he arrived in the sport management field, his experiences as a grad student, advice he would give to grad students, the research process, and general thoughts on sport management.

We have our first live recording from the SMAANZ conference! Dr. David Shilbury provided an excellent review of the 30 years of SMAANZ and the growth of Sport Management Review since its creation in 1998.