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Young Researcher's Awards

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The aim of the European Association for Sociology of Sport’s (eass) Young Researcher's Award is to facilitate the integration of outstanding graduate students and young researchers into the European community of sociology of sport scholars. The award will be granted to a scholarly paper, authored by a young researcher, which is deemed by a panel of judges to be of highest quality. The winning author will be invited to receive the award and present the paper at the Annual Conference of the eass. The winning paper may be considered for publication in the European Journal for Sport and Society.

Eligibility:

  • Any student who is registered for master's or doctoral level graduate work at the time her or his paper is submitted.
  • Any researcher, younger than 35, who was awarded Ph.D not earlier than 5 years before the time her or his paper is submitted.
  • The committee will accept only one submission per author.

Awards:

  • The winning author will be invited to attend the eass conference free of charge and to present the paper.
  • eass sponsored prize of membership in eass for the year after which the award is granted.
  • The author will receive a complete collection of the ejss issues of the former year.
  • The panel of judges may also give up to two honourable mentions. Young researchers receiving an honourable mention will also have their papers accepted for presentation at the eass conference free of charge.
  • Additional monetary prizes may be indicated in the announcement of the forthcoming eass conference.
  • The name of all winning authors will be posted on the eass website.

Requirements:

  • Candidates will submit a scholarly paper on a topic that is of interest to the European sociology of sport academic community. Please submit two separate files: the first one must contain the title of the paper and the full contact information of the author; the second one must contain the title, the abstract and the full text of the paper (here the author should remain anonymous).
  • Papers with a lenght of over 8,000 words (references included) will not be considered.
  • Papers must be original, i.e. not already submitted elsewhere.
  • Authors will submit a letter, signed by her or his academic advisor, verifying their student status or the date of their Ph.D dissertation (not earlier than 5 years before the time her or his paper is submitted).
  • Authors will comply with the publications guidelines of ejss (see: http://www.ejss.de/guidelines.html)
  • Papers should be sent to the Award Committee Chair in electronic copy (Microsoft Word).
  • While sending the full paper for the YRA, those authors who plan to attend the conference independently from the YRA results must also submit their abstract via the on-line submission system of the general conference.

All papers should be sent to: Dr. Davide Sterchele; eass Young Researcher's Award Committee Chair; Department of Sociology, University of Padua: davide.sterchele@unipd.it.
Informal enquiries may be made via email.

Deadline for Receipt of Submissions: see the announcement of the forthcoming eass conference.

 

eass Young Researcher's Award-Winners

2011 (Umeå, Sweden)
Selection Committee: Prof. Tess Kay (Brunel University, UK), Prof. Mojca Doupona Topic (University of Ljubljiana, Slovenia), Prof. Hannu Itkonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Dr. Josef Fahlén (Umeå University, Sweden), Dr. Davide Sterchele (University of Padua)

Winner: Koji Kobayashi, University of Otago, New Zealand
"Globalisation, Corporate Nationalism and Orientalism: Negotiating Japanese Identity between the East and West within Asics Global Advertising Production"


L-R Koji Kobayashi, Nicola Porro (President, eass)

Honourable mentions:
Oli Williams, University of Leicester, UK ("Eating for Excellence: Eating Disorders in Elite Sport: Inevitability and Immunity");
Stephanie-Alice Baker, University of Western Sydney, Australia ("From Sporting Transgression to Social Tragedy: Situating Zidane's World Cup head-butt on France's postcolonial stage")

 

2010 (Porto, Portugal)
Selection Committee: Gertrud Pfister (Denmark), Ana Luísa Pereira (Portugal), Lone Friis Thing (Denmark), Davide Sterchele (Italy, chair)

Winner: Philipe de Souto Barreto, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
"Physical activity level among functionally limited and robust older adults: is body satisfaction predictive of physical activity level?"


L-R Georg Anders (President, eass), Philipe de Souto Barreto

Honourable mentions:
Remco Hoekman, W.J.H. Mulier Institute, the Netherlands ("Influence of neighborhood and sport facilities on sport participation in an urban area");
Steven Vos, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium ("Cross sector relationships in the supply of sport at a local level: cooperations between non-profit and commercial sport providers")

 

2009 (Rome, Italy)
Selection Committee: Henning Eichberg (Denmark), Richard Giulianotti (United Kingdom), Bernd Schulze (Germany), Davide Sterchele (Italy, chair)

Winner: Charlotte Van Tuyckom, Ghent University, Belgium
"Six sporting worlds: A cluster analysis of sports participation in 25 European member states"


L-R Charlotte Van Tuyckom, Georg Anders (President, eass)

Honourable mentions:
Nicolas Delorme, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble I, France ("Women in the sub-field of French sports journalism: a double domination");
Lotte Salome, Tilburg School of Economics, The Nederlands ("Senses of authenticity in contemporary consumer culture. New versions of lifestyle sports and questions of genuineness")

 

  
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