Researchers have claimed that coaches and athletes are increasingly expected to use research evidence and innovation to gain competitive advantages (e.g., Arnold & Schilling, 2017 ), yet, scholars have also acknowledged that bridging gaps between research and practice in sport is challenging
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Coaches’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of the Factors That Influence Knowledge Translation for Coaching in Portugal and Brazil
Fernando Santos, Marta Ferreira, and Nicholas L. Holt
Perceptions of Current Issues in Female Sport Nutrition From Elite Athletes, Practitioners, and Researchers
Carl Langan-Evans, Colum Cronin, Mark A. Hearris, Kirsty J. Elliott-Sale, and James P. Morton
contributing factor is the challenge of conducting high-quality research in female demographics, due to the diversity in ovarian hormone status across the lifespan ( Elliott-Sale et al., 2021 ). Within this context, the sport nutrition practices of female athletes is one of several under-researched areas where
Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance Global Matrix 4.0—A Resource for Physical Activity Researchers
Mark S. Tremblay, Joel D. Barnes, Iryna Demchenko, Silvia A. Gonzalez, Javier Brazo-Sayavera, Jakub Kalinowski, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Taru Manyanga, John J. Reilly, Stephen Heung Sang Wong, and Salomé Aubert
This brief report provides an overview of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA), an introduction to the Global Matrix 4.0, an explanation of the value and opportunities that the AHKGA efforts and assets provide to the physical activity research, policy, practice, and advocacy community
Surprising Consequences of Researching John Wooden’s Teaching Practices: The Backstory of the 1976 Study of the Legendary University of California, Los Angeles Basketball Coach
Ronald Gallimore
study the teaching practices of John Wooden, regarded by some observers as the greatest coach of the 20th century. It was an unusual decision by a junior professor; coaching was not a priority subject for psychological researchers. Unconventional studies can be risky in a publish or perish environment
Using Social Learning Spaces to Think Beyond and Innovate Conventional Conferencing Formats
Fernando Santos, Martin Camiré, Scott Pierce, Dany J. MacDonald, Leisha Strachan, Tarkington Newman, Stewart Vella, and Michel Milistetd
psychology, physical education pedagogy, sport management, and sport social work. Figure 1 —The blue room. Conferences are organized to provide forums for researchers, policymakers, administrators, educators, and/or practitioners to meet, engage, and find synergies that help foster bidirectional alignment
Environmental and Policy Approaches for Promoting Physical Activity in the United States: A Research Agenda*
Ross C. Brownson, Cheryl M. Kelly, Amy A. Eyler, Cheryl Carnoske, Lisa Grost, Susan L. Handy, Jay E. Maddock, Delores Pluto, Brian A. Ritacco, James F. Sallis, and Thomas L. Schmid
Background:
Environmental and policy approaches are promising strategies to raise population-wide rates of physical activity; yet, little attention has been paid to the development and prioritization of a research agenda on these topics that will have relevance for both researchers and practitioners.
Methods:
Using input from hundreds of researchers and practitioners, a research agenda was developed for promoting physical activity through environmental and policy interventions. Concept mapping was used to develop the agenda.
Results:
Among those who brainstormed ideas, 42% were researchers and 33% were practitioners. The data formed a concept map with 9 distinct clusters. Based on ratings by both researchers and practitioners, the policy research cluster on city planning and design emerged as the most important, with economic evaluation second.
Conclusions:
Our research agenda sets the stage for new inquiries to better understand the environmental and policy influences on physical activity.
Auditing the Representation of Females Versus Males in Heat Adaptation Research
Monica K. Kelly, Ella S. Smith, Harry A. Brown, William T. Jardine, Lilia Convit, Steven J. Bowe, Dominique Condo, Joshua H. Guy, Louise M. Burke, Julien D. Périard, Rhiannon M.J. Snipe, Rodney J. Snow, and Amelia J. Carr
Women remain substantially underrepresented in sports science and sports medicine (SSSM) research, with just 4%–23% of studies across subdisciplines examining female-only populations ( Cowley et al., 2021 ; Hutchins et al., 2021 ; Kuikman et al., 2022 , 2023 ; Smith et al., 2022a ). This is
Grants: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Puzzling
Jeffrey J. Martin
Grants play a major role in higher education, including kinesiology. External funding is critical for many types of research and has come to be expected in higher education. This expectation has not always been the case, as 30–40 years ago very few faculty members were expected to obtain grants and
The GoPA! Second Set of Country Cards Informing Decision Making for a Silent Pandemic
Andrea Ramírez Varela and Michael Pratt
activity have increased as well. 2 However, one of every 3 adults worldwide remains physically inactive. 3 In 2012, the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) 4 was established to provide information that would enable countries to initiate or improve research capacity, surveillance systems
State of the Science on Ultramarathon Running After a Half Century: A Systematic Analysis and Commentary
Martin D. Hoffman
finishes in the United States in 2019 was roughly 25% of the number of marathon finishes in the same year. 2 , 3 Along with the growth in ultramarathon participation has come a growth in research activity, as was evidenced from an unstructured analysis of PubMed-indexed publications through 2015. 4 Yet
