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Adam B Evans

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ID98336
NAMEAdam B Evans
GIVEN NAMESAdam B
FAMILY NAMEEvans
SIGNATUREEVANS A B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0002-8232-9912
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS179
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7
  • Copenhagen consensus statements on workplace health enhancing physical activity programmes

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Michelle Skov Blagdon et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2025

    Workplace health enhancing physical activity (HEPA) programmes are associated with physical activity promotion and reduction of sedentary time among employees. Whilst the workplace is often considered an appropriate setting for such programmes, however, ethical and implementation challenges remain. Furthermore, debate still exists concerning programme rationale, efficacy, effectiveness, and impact. In 2024, 24 researchers from twelve countries co…

  • Intellectual disability and the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans, Ben Powi et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2025•References: 1

  • “Standing out like a sore thumb”

    Open Access•John Blackwell, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2024

    Exercise-based rehabilitation forms a key part of the UK National Health Service patient-care pathway for cardiac rehabilitation (CR).Only around half of all eligible patients attend core CR, however, with social inequalities affecting participation.Few qualitative studies have explored indepth the key factors influencing engagement with CR, specifically from a sociological theoretical, and ethnographic perspective.Utilising an ethnographic appro…

  • They’ve just never been involved in it’

    Valentina Cannella, Rodrigo Serrat et al.•ARTICLE•Leisure Studies•2024•References: 58

    To date, despite the many recognised benefits of participation in sport, many older people do not participate in it. This study explored the opinions about barriers to participating in sport among non-active older people from the perspective of 463 senior athletes (M = 61.4, SD = 5.5 years) engaged in competitive sports. Participants completed a questionnaire including an incomplete sentence regarding the reason why many older people do not play …

  • How Person-Centred Is Cardiac Rehabilitation in England? Using Bourdieu to Explore Socio-Cultural Influences and Personalisation

    Open Access•John Blackwell, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2024•References: 48

    The National Health Service (NHS) cardiac rehabilitation patient care pathway has remained largely unchanged for many years despite, on average, half of all eligible patients declining to engage. To investigate reasons for non-engagement, we explored the experiences of ten cardiac patients who participated in cardiac rehabilitation, dropped out, or declined, as well as experiences of seven people deemed significant others by participants. Our eth…

  • Somewhere Between a Stopwatch and a Recording Device

    Open Access•G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2023

    As has recently been highlighted, despite the prevalence of methodological “confessional tales” in ethnography generally, the challenges of undertaking ethnographic research specifically in institutional sports settings remain underexplored. Drawing on data from a 3-year ethnographic study of competitive swimming in the United Kingdom (UK), here we explore some of the practical challenges of balancing different elements of the researcher’s role w…

  • Activating the ‘peerness’ of youth leaders in a community sports programme through techne and phronesis

    Open Access•Julie Hellesøe Christensen, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Health Promotion International•2022

    Peer-to-peer approaches engage groups of people considered to share one or more characteristics that identify them as peers and draw on rationales of credibility, identification and role modelling in peer-to-peer interactions. Despite the popularity of the approach, the ways in which the peer leadership component specifically contributes to health promotion is not thoroughly understood. We suggest that a first step for making use of peer leader c…

  • Women-only swimming as a space of belonging

    Verena Lenneis, Sine Agergaard et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2022

    The female Muslim body has come under close political and public scrutiny in many Western societies. Within sport, too, Muslim women’s dress and practices have become topics of discussion. For example, gender-segregated swimming sessions catering for Muslim women have caused disputes in several European countries, including Denmark. Nevertheless, the perspectives of participants are absent in such discussions and research about the significance o…

  • Swimming as self-care - A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women

    Open Access•Verena Lenneis, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 45

    This article scrutinises the highly contested, yet largely unexplored space of gender-segregated swimming that caters for Muslim women. Combining participant observation of weekly women-only swimming sessions with interviews of regular participants, the aim of this paper was to shed light on the 'non-White' space of women-only swimming and explore the lived experiences of Danish Muslim women within this specific setting. Drawing on a Foucauldian …

  • ‘Ploughing on’

    G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2021

    Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, in-depth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They also require substantial sa…

  • Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies

    Open Access•J Allen-Collinson, G Mcnarry et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2021

    As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and accountability o…

  • Why do some papers get desk rejected from the European Journal for Sport and Society

    Adam B Evans, Georgia Clay et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•References: 5

    Contains fulltext : 241715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access

  • Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter

    Adam B Evans, Sine Agergaard et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    2021). Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter: introduction to the special issue. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 18, Special Issue on Sport, Race and Ethnicity at a time of multiple global crises. Guest Editors: Adam B. Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton & Verena Lenneis, pp. 187-191

  • Qualitative research in sports studies

    Adam B Evans, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim

  • Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming

    Open Access•G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 43

    In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing 'sensory sociology' that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and 'sensory work', but where th…

  • Doing' competitive swimming

    Open Access•G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually 'doing' sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical-cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study…

  • “Together, we can do it all!”

    Adam B Evans, Sofie M N Andreassen et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2020

    Transitions from military into civilian life can be problematic, particularly when caused by service-related injury. Studies suggest the management of psychological and physical injury requires care and management beyond initial rehabilitation. Narrative studies with predominantly British and American veterans have highlighted the role sport and exercise can play in this management. Knowledge of the experiences of veterans among their coalition a…

  • ‘We have the time to listen’

    J Allen-Collinson, Rachel Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2020

    This article contributes empirical findings and sociological theoretical perspectives to discussions of the role of community lay health workers, including in improving the health of individuals and communities. We focus on the role of the Health Trainer (HT), at its inception described as one of the most innovative developments in UK Public Health policy. As lay health workers, HTs are tasked with reducing health inequalities in disadvantaged co…

  • Women in sports leadership

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Gertrud Pfister et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Gender inequity in sport organisation boards, particularly in decision-making positions, remains a significant issue. Considerable research exists on the topic yet attempts to integrate non-academic perspectives on this literature are relatively limited. We present a systematic narrative review, constructed in conjunction with the work of a ‘reflective panel’ which included sport, business and academic professionals from Europe and North America.…

  • You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”

    G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 13

    Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…

  • Research impact in the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 3

    The notion that research should impact both the academic and outside world is increasingly common, often as an ethical imperative (e.g. Evans, 2016). Yet what is considered impactful in sport, and

  • Black Lives Matter

    Adam B Evans, Sine Agergaard et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 17•References: 12

    Debates around race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, whether related to sport or society in general, are far from new. Yet in recent times, such debates have gained new urgency due to the Black Lives M

  • Football is/as medicine

    Adam B Evans, Laila Ottesen•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 5

  • Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Adam B Evans, John Blackwell et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 25•References: 5

    These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…

  • Negotiating a coach identity

    Adelle Blackett, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    There has been a growing trend of elite athletes being fast-tracked into post-athletic high-performance coaching roles in association football and rugby union in England and Wales. This has been facilitated by an increase in bespoke and condensed formal coach education courses that are designed to accelerate current and/or former elite athletes in attaining their coaching accreditation. Hitherto, however, the individual lived experiences of forme…

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  • Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Adam B Evans, John Blackwell et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 25•References: 5

    These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…

  • Women in sports leadership

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Gertrud Pfister et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Gender inequity in sport organisation boards, particularly in decision-making positions, remains a significant issue. Considerable research exists on the topic yet attempts to integrate non-academic perspectives on this literature are relatively limited. We present a systematic narrative review, constructed in conjunction with the work of a ‘reflective panel’ which included sport, business and academic professionals from Europe and North America.…

  • Black Lives Matter

    Adam B Evans, Sine Agergaard et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 17•References: 12

    Debates around race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, whether related to sport or society in general, are far from new. Yet in recent times, such debates have gained new urgency due to the Black Lives M

  • You feel like people are looking at you and laughing”

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Mike Sleap•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging Studies•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 12

  • Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming

    Open Access•G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 43

    In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing 'sensory sociology' that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and 'sensory work', but where th…

  • From ‘just a swimmer’ to a ‘swimming mother’

    Adam B Evans, J Allen-Collinson•ARTICLE•Leisure Studies•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 39

    Increased academic attention on the gendering of leisure pastimes in recent years has highlighted the centrality of the gendered body in influencing how leisure is accessed, experienced and transformed. To date, however, little attention has been paid to how women experience aquatic leisure activity, the second most popular form of leisure activity in the UK, and where female participation predominates. This paper presents results from research i…

  • Negotiating a coach identity

    Adelle Blackett, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    There has been a growing trend of elite athletes being fast-tracked into post-athletic high-performance coaching roles in association football and rugby union in England and Wales. This has been facilitated by an increase in bespoke and condensed formal coach education courses that are designed to accelerate current and/or former elite athletes in attaining their coaching accreditation. Hitherto, however, the individual lived experiences of forme…

  • Swimming as self-care - A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women

    Open Access•Verena Lenneis, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 45

    This article scrutinises the highly contested, yet largely unexplored space of gender-segregated swimming that caters for Muslim women. Combining participant observation of weekly women-only swimming sessions with interviews of regular participants, the aim of this paper was to shed light on the 'non-White' space of women-only swimming and explore the lived experiences of Danish Muslim women within this specific setting. Drawing on a Foucauldian …

  • Doing' competitive swimming

    Open Access•G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually 'doing' sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical-cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study…

  • To be or not to be phenomenology

    J Allen-Collinson, Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    Recent years have seen a burgeoning in phenomenological research on sport, physical cultures and exercise. As editors and reviewers, however, we frequently and consistently see social science articles that claim to be ‘phenomenological’ or to use phenomenology, but the reasons for such claims are not always evident. Indeed, on closer reading, many such claims can often turn out to be highly problematic. At this point, we should clarify that our ‘…

  • Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter

    Adam B Evans, Sine Agergaard et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    2021). Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter: introduction to the special issue. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 18, Special Issue on Sport, Race and Ethnicity at a time of multiple global crises. Guest Editors: Adam B. Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton & Verena Lenneis, pp. 187-191

  • Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal 'instincts

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 39

    Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women's embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young childre…

  • Why ‘the best way of learning to coach the game is playing the game’

    Adelle Blackett, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 17

    At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season in England and Wales, 90 head coaches of the 92 men's national professional football league clubs and 20 of the 22 men's professional rugby union clubs had tenure as a professional elite player in their respective sports. Moreover, Rynne [(2014). ‘Fast track’ and ‘traditional path’ coaches: Affordances, agency and social capital. Sport, Education and Society, 19, 299–313] has claimed that many former elite…

  • It's a long way to the Super League

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, David Stead et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 45

    This article investigates the embodied experiences of a group of professional sports labour migrants whose experiences have largely been ignored by sociological literature: southern hemisphere rugby players playing professional rugby league in the United Kingdom. The migrant pathway from Australasia to the UK is well established. Moreover, rugby league is a sport in which debate concerning the merits of employing labour migrants from Australasia …

  • Qualitative research in sports studies

    Adam B Evans, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim

  • Non-disabled secondary school children's lived experiences of a wheelchair basketball programme delivered in the East of England

    Adam B Evans, J Bright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 25

    Frequently an unquestioned belief is held in British schools in the value of ‘normalized’ ability in physical education (PE). Consequently inclusion of disabled students can be problematic. Negative perceptions of disability are rarely challenged. This study investigated the embodied experiences of 49 non-disabled secondary school pupils during a programme designed to introduce disability sport to non-disabled school children entitled ‘The Wheelc…

  • You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”

    G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 13

    Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…

  • Research impact in the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 3

    The notion that research should impact both the academic and outside world is increasingly common, often as an ethical imperative (e.g. Evans, 2016). Yet what is considered impactful in sport, and

  • Football is/as medicine

    Adam B Evans, Laila Ottesen•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 5

  • A level playing ‘field’? A Bourdieusian analysis of the career aspirations of further education students on sports courses

    Daniel Connolly, Daniel J Connolly et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    There is currently a distinct dearth of research into how sports students’ career aspirations are formed during their post-compulsory education. This article, based on an ethnographic study of sport students in tertiary education, draws on data collected from two first-year cohorts (n = 34) on two different courses at a further education college in England. The study draws on ethnographic observations, and semi-structured group interviews, to exa…

  • Shooting for Lithuania

    Adam B Evans, David Piggott•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 19

    The accession of the ‘A8 states’ into the European Union initiated considerable migration into Western Europe. The impact upon local communities has seen significant attention, yet little research exists that focuses upon migrant experiences and identity specifically in sport. This study used a figurational framework to investigate the lived experiences of basketball among male Lithuanian migrants in the rural east of England. Semistructured inte…

  • Speaking beyond borders in the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans, Ansgar Thiel•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    As outlined in a recent paper in this publication by Seippel (2018, p. 288), over the previous three decades the discipline of sociology of sport has become ‘a voluminous scientific field with semi

  • You're Just Chopped Off at the End

    Open Access•Rachel Williams, Rachel Katherine Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…

  • To ‘just be relaxed and with your own thoughts’

    Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•Loisir et Société / Society and…•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 19

    The subjective, lived experiences of people with severe and enduring mental ill health during leisure remain a relatively under-researched area. Research suggests, however, that such participants value the empowering nature of tailored leisure activities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five individuals, or ‘clients,’ diagnosed with schizophrenia, along with two of their support workers. A Foucauldian theoretical framework guided a…

  • Active ageing in Denmark; shifting institutional landscapes and the intersection of national and local priorities

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Anne Nistrup et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging Studies•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 11

  • You feel like people are looking at you and laughing”

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Mike Sleap•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging Studies•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 12

  • Non-disabled secondary school children's lived experiences of a wheelchair basketball programme delivered in the East of England

    Adam B Evans, J Bright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 25

    Frequently an unquestioned belief is held in British schools in the value of ‘normalized’ ability in physical education (PE). Consequently inclusion of disabled students can be problematic. Negative perceptions of disability are rarely challenged. This study investigated the embodied experiences of 49 non-disabled secondary school pupils during a programme designed to introduce disability sport to non-disabled school children entitled ‘The Wheelc…

  • It's a long way to the Super League

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, David Stead et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 45

    This article investigates the embodied experiences of a group of professional sports labour migrants whose experiences have largely been ignored by sociological literature: southern hemisphere rugby players playing professional rugby league in the United Kingdom. The migrant pathway from Australasia to the UK is well established. Moreover, rugby league is a sport in which debate concerning the merits of employing labour migrants from Australasia …

  • ‘Some of these people aren’t as fit as us …’

    Adam B Evans, Lee Crust•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2015

    There is a dearth of research on how the physically active body is experienced during rehabilitation from serious illness. The present study investigated older adults’ embodied experiences and changing perceptions of self in one cardiac rehabilitation (CR) scheme in the East of England. Fourteen interviews were completed with participants in a CR scheme. A figurational approach was utilised which emphasised the need for participants to delineate …

  • Why ‘the best way of learning to coach the game is playing the game’

    Adelle Blackett, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 17

    At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season in England and Wales, 90 head coaches of the 92 men's national professional football league clubs and 20 of the 22 men's professional rugby union clubs had tenure as a professional elite player in their respective sports. Moreover, Rynne [(2014). ‘Fast track’ and ‘traditional path’ coaches: Affordances, agency and social capital. Sport, Education and Society, 19, 299–313] has claimed that many former elite…

  • A level playing ‘field’? A Bourdieusian analysis of the career aspirations of further education students on sports courses

    Daniel Connolly, Daniel J Connolly et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    There is currently a distinct dearth of research into how sports students’ career aspirations are formed during their post-compulsory education. This article, based on an ethnographic study of sport students in tertiary education, draws on data collected from two first-year cohorts (n = 34) on two different courses at a further education college in England. The study draws on ethnographic observations, and semi-structured group interviews, to exa…

  • Shooting for Lithuania

    Adam B Evans, David Piggott•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 19

    The accession of the ‘A8 states’ into the European Union initiated considerable migration into Western Europe. The impact upon local communities has seen significant attention, yet little research exists that focuses upon migrant experiences and identity specifically in sport. This study used a figurational framework to investigate the lived experiences of basketball among male Lithuanian migrants in the rural east of England. Semistructured inte…

  • Older adults’ lifelong embodied experiences of leisure time aquatic physical activity in the United Kingdom

    Adam B Evans, Mike Sleap•ARTICLE•Leisure Studies•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 46

    Aquatic physical activity has considerable benefits for older adults. However, participation rates remain low in the United Kingdom (UK). Recognition of the importance of embodied and narrative elements of ageing has increased in recent times. Old age is considered a life stage interdependent with other, earlier life stages, rather than as a distinct period. This study uses a figurational perspective to investigate older adults’ changing percepti…

  • Personal goals, group performance and ‘social’ networks

    Adam B Evans, A Carter et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2016

    County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) epitomise the growing reliance upon building networks and partnerships in sports delivery. This study investigated how social networks were created and contested in a CSP-led programme entitled the ‘Workplace Challenge’ (WPC). The WPC used a web-platform to encourage workplace-based teams to engage in physical activity by self-recording their activity over an eight-week period. Points were awarded for activity co…

  • ‘Ladies present!’

    Stacey Mitchell, S Weir Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2016

    Despite high general participation rates in golf in England and a raft of initiatives to encourage more women and younger players into golf, fewer than one in five amateur golfers in England is female and there is a real dearth of young women entering the sport. Sexist policies and practices have been posited as possible barriers to women’s and girls’ grass-roots participation in golf, but to date little qualitative research has been undertaken o…

  • From ‘just a swimmer’ to a ‘swimming mother’

    Adam B Evans, J Allen-Collinson•ARTICLE•Leisure Studies•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 39

    Increased academic attention on the gendering of leisure pastimes in recent years has highlighted the centrality of the gendered body in influencing how leisure is accessed, experienced and transformed. To date, however, little attention has been paid to how women experience aquatic leisure activity, the second most popular form of leisure activity in the UK, and where female participation predominates. This paper presents results from research i…

  • To ‘just be relaxed and with your own thoughts’

    Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•Loisir et Société / Society and…•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 19

    The subjective, lived experiences of people with severe and enduring mental ill health during leisure remain a relatively under-researched area. Research suggests, however, that such participants value the empowering nature of tailored leisure activities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five individuals, or ‘clients,’ diagnosed with schizophrenia, along with two of their support workers. A Foucauldian theoretical framework guided a…

  • Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal 'instincts

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 39

    Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women's embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young childre…

  • The ‘wild and woolly’ world of exercise referral schemes

    Hannah Henderson, Adam B Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2018

    Exercise Referral Schemes (ERS) are programmes commonly implemented in the United Kingdom to increase physical activity levels and ‘treat’ ‘sedentary’ individuals and those diagnosed with non-communicable chronic disease. The views and interpretations of stakeholders are currently under-researched, however. This paper addresses sociologically this research lacuna, presenting data from interviews with 17 ERS stakeholders (seven exercise profession…

  • ‘We may be falling apart but we still keep going’

    Rachel Katherine Williams, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2018

    Currently, there is scant research that investigates in-depth retired servicemen’s perceptions and experiences of ageing and being physically active, particularly in relation to retirement experiences. In this article, we employ a novel theoretical combination of figurational sociology and symbolic interactionism to explore a topical life history of 20 retired servicemen’s experiences in relation to physical activity (PA), the ageing body and con…

  • Active ageing in Denmark; shifting institutional landscapes and the intersection of national and local priorities

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Anne Nistrup et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging Studies•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 11

  • You're Just Chopped Off at the End

    Open Access•Rachel Williams, Rachel Katherine Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…

  • Reflexivity and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research

    G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2019

    In this article, following on from earlier debates in the journal regarding the ‘thorny issue’ of epochē and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research, we consider more generally the challenges of engaging in reflexivity and bracketing when undertaking ethnographic ‘insider’ research, or research in familiar settings. We ground our discussion and illustrate some of the key challenges by drawing on the experience of undertaking this res…

  • To be or not to be phenomenology

    J Allen-Collinson, Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    Recent years have seen a burgeoning in phenomenological research on sport, physical cultures and exercise. As editors and reviewers, however, we frequently and consistently see social science articles that claim to be ‘phenomenological’ or to use phenomenology, but the reasons for such claims are not always evident. Indeed, on closer reading, many such claims can often turn out to be highly problematic. At this point, we should clarify that our ‘…

  • Speaking beyond borders in the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans, Ansgar Thiel•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    As outlined in a recent paper in this publication by Seippel (2018, p. 288), over the previous three decades the discipline of sociology of sport has become ‘a voluminous scientific field with semi

  • “Together, we can do it all!”

    Adam B Evans, Sofie M N Andreassen et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2020

    Transitions from military into civilian life can be problematic, particularly when caused by service-related injury. Studies suggest the management of psychological and physical injury requires care and management beyond initial rehabilitation. Narrative studies with predominantly British and American veterans have highlighted the role sport and exercise can play in this management. Knowledge of the experiences of veterans among their coalition a…

  • ‘We have the time to listen’

    J Allen-Collinson, Rachel Williams et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2020

    This article contributes empirical findings and sociological theoretical perspectives to discussions of the role of community lay health workers, including in improving the health of individuals and communities. We focus on the role of the Health Trainer (HT), at its inception described as one of the most innovative developments in UK Public Health policy. As lay health workers, HTs are tasked with reducing health inequalities in disadvantaged co…

  • Women in sports leadership

    Open Access•Adam B Evans, Gertrud Pfister et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 18

    Gender inequity in sport organisation boards, particularly in decision-making positions, remains a significant issue. Considerable research exists on the topic yet attempts to integrate non-academic perspectives on this literature are relatively limited. We present a systematic narrative review, constructed in conjunction with the work of a ‘reflective panel’ which included sport, business and academic professionals from Europe and North America.…

  • You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”

    G Mcnarry, J Allen-Collinson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 13

    Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…

  • Research impact in the sociology of sport

    Adam B Evans•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•Cited by: 3

    The notion that research should impact both the academic and outside world is increasingly common, often as an ethical imperative (e.g. Evans, 2016). Yet what is considered impactful in sport, and

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