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.

Coming back from SMAANZ and wanting to complete an interview with the newly-minted Distinguished Service Award, Geoff Dickson. He talked about being a "late starter", experiences being a faculty member while finishing his PhD, the power of networking, his George Cunningham story about being a writer, living in NZ + AU, and golf!

Our final pre-SMAANZ conference recording was joined by Hans Westerbeek and Adam Karg to talk about the future of sport. We discussed the concept and creation of EASM and SMAANZ, how those initial plans have shaped our current direction, important topics and consideration for where the sport management field is going, and their favorite SMAANZ moments.

https://www.routledge.com/International-Sport-Business-Current-Issues-Future-Directions/Westerbeek-Karg/p/book/9780367312824?srsltid=AfmBOor5vQ3U7xFaqPaCUi0LNUwnGAF5i2E4WQnkUa1kGXg0xqLARzVI

Following up from our conversation with McLeod/Pifer on the faculty side of applying for grants, we interviewed Clair Green-Schwartz to talk about the admin support of the grant application process. Clair works at University of Cincinnati as the CECH Impact Accelerator Research Director. We talked about the trickiness of the grant application process, the value of university support for faculty grant work, biggest components where faculty need help, and how they've adjusted their faculty support over the years.

We were joined by Dr. Laurence Chalip, founding editor for Sport Management Review, to talk about the establishment and early years of SMR. We talked about the planning, recruitment of authors/reviewers, establishing a footing, what changed over time, and uniqueness for the journal. We also talked about the beginning of SMAANZ and the relationship with the journal.

Are you interested in applying for grants? Is your faculty position pushing for more grant activity? Then check out this episode with David Pifer (FSU) and Chris Mcleod (UF) talk about their recent grant application experiences with both private and federal grants.

We have a new episode on the experience of going from a sport management doc student to becoming a faculty member outside of sport management!

Dr. Keevan Statz at Benedictine College joined us to walk through his experience. He talked about his experience choosing a doc program, his plans during PhD work, networking approach, conference attendance, job search process, and explaining his background to non-sport folks.

We had two great guests join us to talk about evaluating teaching. Sarah Wymer and Kim Encel walked us through how we can evaluate and self-evaluate our teaching abilities. We started with some low-hanging fruit then moved to move advanced ideas. We finished up with talking about how to take advantage of university resources and outside resources!

We continue our SMAANZ collaboration with an episode on Women in Sport!

Our guests for this episode include Sarah Lieberman and Sally Shaw to go over (a) the rise of women's sports (sports, levels, contexts), watershed moments, implications of sport management + research, (b) preparing sport management students for leadership in sport (curriculum design, mentoring, and advocating for leadership, and (c) plans for SMAANZ.

Roslyn Kerr was instrumental in creating our topic for this episode but couldn't make the episode time. Much thanks to her in helping during the design phase.