Brett Smith - Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN SPORT AND EXERCISE

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise. The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer an in-depth survey of established and emerging qualitative methods, from conceptual first principles to practice and process.

Written and edited by a team of world-leading researchers, and some of the best emerging talents, the book introduces a range of research traditions within which qualitative researchers work. It explores the different methods used to collect and analyse data, offering rationales for why each method might be chosen and guidance on how to employ each technique successfully. It also introduces important contemporary debates and goes further than any other book in exploring new methods, concepts and future directions, such as sensory research, digital research, visual methods and how qualitative research can generate impact.

Cutting-edge, timely and comprehensive, the Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is an essential reference for any student or scholar using qualitative methods in sport and exercise-related research.

Brett Smith, PhD, is Professor of Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on disability, sport and physical activity. He is also interested in qualitative inquiry and its possibilities for social change. Brett is Associate Editor of Psychology of Sport and Exercise and serves actively on seven editorial boards, including the Sociology of Sport Journal and Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology. He is co-author of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product . He is also co-editor of the Routledge book series on Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity . Brett is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health .

Andrew C. Sparkes, Ph.D. and professor, is currently with the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests are inspired by a continuing fascination with the ways that people inhabit and experience their bodies differently over time, and in a variety of contexts. To explore such experiences he draws on life history, ethnography, auto-ethnography and narrative approaches. Andrew is co-author of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product , and co-editor of Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications , both published by Routledge.

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH IN SPORT
AND EXERCISE

Edited by Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes

First published 2016
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Names: Smith, Brett (Brett M.), editor. | Sparkes, Andrew C., editor.
Title: Routledge handbook of qualitative research in sport and exercise / edited by Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes.Other titles: Handbook of qualitative research in sport and exercise
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge international handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016012313| ISBN 9781138792487 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315762012 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sports sciencesResearchMethodology. | ExerciseResearchMethodology. | Qualitative researchMethodology.
Classification: LCC GV558 .R679 2016 | DDC 796.01/5dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016012313

ISBN: 978-1-138-79248-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76201-2 (ebk)

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Brett Smith, Ph.D., is Professor in Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Prior to that, he was Professor in Qualitative Health Research in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. His research focuses on disability, sport and physical activity. He is also a methodologist in qualitative inquiry. Bretts research has been published widely in leading journals, such as Social Science and Medicine , Health Psychology , Sociology of Health and Illness and Qualitative Research . His research has also been communicated in numerous invited keynotes and the media, as well as to policymakers, the Houses of Parliament, all-party parliamentary groups, clinical reference groups, The Royal Society of Medicine, sport organisations, disability user groups and health professionals around the world. Brett serves on the Disability Rights UK Get Yourself Active national steering group, and on seven editorial boards, including the Sociology of Sport Journal and Qualitative Research in Psychology. He is Associate Editor of both Psychology of Sport and Exercise and Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology, co-author (with Andrew Sparkes) of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product (2014), and co-editor (with Michael Giardina) of the Routledge book series on Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity . Brett is also honoured to be the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health .

Andrew C. Sparkes, Ph.D. and professor, is currently with the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests revolve around the many ways that people inhabit and experience their bodies differently over time in a variety of contexts. Recent work has focused on interrupted body projects (e.g. spinal-cord injury) and the narrative reconstruction of self; ageing bodies in sport and physical activity contexts; sporting auto/biographies and body-self-culture relationships; and sensual ways of knowing and being in sport, physical activity and leisure. To explore such experiences he draws on autobiographical, life history, ethnography, auto-ethnography and narrative approaches. Andrew is co-author of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product (2014), and co-editor of Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications (2015), both published by Routledge. He is Editor of the British Sociological Association Auto/Biography Yearbook. Andrew feels privileged to serve on the advisory boards of the following journals: Sport, Education and Societ y; Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health ; and the Qualitative Research Journal . He is on the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Aging Studies ; The Sport Psychologist ; International Journal of Mens Health; European Physical Education Review ; Methodological Innovations Online ; Qualitative Research in Education ; and Agora: Para la Educacion Fisica y el Deporte (Spain); and La Revista Educacin Fsica y Deporte (Colombia, South America).