State of Sport Management: Recent Episodes
Matt Huml
The State of Sport Management is a podcast focused on the academic/faculty experiences of those working in the field of sport management.
Our final episode goes back to the guest we started with; Dr. Mary Hums joins us to talk about how the sport management field has changed since the podcast is started, topics that have fundamentally changed, and what's to come.
Dr. Carlos Gomez Gonzalez joined us to talk about experimental design. We focused on his 2024 SMR publication (Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance) on how his research team used a unique methodological approach to collect data and present results through experimental design.
Dr. Chris Green joined us to talk about Laurence Chalip and his impact on the sport management field.
For this episode we welcomed Dr. Pamela Wicker to the podcast to talk about her role at Sport Management Review and the reviewer shortage. We discussed her role as editor, the process of finding reviewers, how editors decide on reviewers, the reviewer shortage (crisis?), and the consequences of that shortage.
Our annual Zeigler episode! Dean Damon Andrew joined to talk about his journey to becoming a sport management student, first thoughts about doing a PhD, becoming a faculty member at UL, and starting his career path. Then we discussed his Zeigler article (JSM): reputation of sport management, strengths and weaknesses, growth of enrollment, prominent programs, growth of faculty, and much more!
We want to creating cutting-edge research but also apply our knowledge to practitioners, but how? Sam Ehrlich joined to talk about his career journey and how he made a name for himself in research. Then, we talked about how that led to opportunities with practitioners and consulting growth.
Our next episode focused on getting a teaching institution faculty job out of a PhD program. We had Dr. Jeffrey Ward from SUNY-Oneanta joined us to talk about his experience. We first talked about his military background and how that shaped his PhD and faculty experience. Then we transitioned to the period of dissertation defense to starting at a teaching school. Going from moving locations but also the challenges of many course preps while acclimating to new school systems.
We were joined by Dr. Jason Simmons at University of Cincinnati to talk about finding your research topic early in your career. The conversation started with his initial plans for research as a doc student, how his ideas transitioned, and how he settled on sport fandom being at the core. We then talked about early feedback from his advisor to reviewer/editor feedback that shaped his perspective.
The seventh season of the State of Sport Management kicks off with an announcement that this will be our final season. A couple early thank you's (will be more later this academic year), an overview of topics we plan on covering in our final year, and a note on the passing of Laurence Chalip this summer.
Our final live episode from the 2024 SMAANZ. We had an excellent panel of Nico Schulenkorf, Sally Shaw, Per Svensson, Heath McDonald, and moderated by Alison Doherty. They talked about their research, process, SMAANZ, and advice for others.
We have our next SMAANZ live recording! A great quartet of sport management leaders (Russell Hoye, Emma Sherry, Lesley Ferkins, and James Skinner) discussed their leadership experiences, backgrounds, and advice to those interested in future leadership opportunities.
We finish up our series on applying for grants with a lovely discussion with Dr. Katie Misener talking about the Canadian side of grants. We talked about her grant application/award success at the government and organizational level. We then reviewed the differences between the Canadian/US grant application process, how she identifies grant opportunities, lessons learned, and insights she provides to faculty wanting to get into grants.
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.
Welcome the Sherry and Schulenkorf Show! Emma Sherry and Nico Schulenkorf joined us to talk about Sport for Development (SFD). We discussed SFD going from upstart area to adolescence, important findings over the past 10 years, importance of SFD within Australasia footprint, difficulties of performing SFD research, and future areas/context.
Our new episode includes Jonathan Robertson, Ashleigh-Jane Thompson, and Kevin Filo as guests as we walk through the collaboration between State of Sport Management and SMAANZ!
Topics covered include:
Brief discussion on past conferences (what is SMAANZ?)
Differences between SMAANZ, NASSM, EASM
Importance of 2024 conference
Conference theme
SoSM/SMAANZ Collab
SMAANZ Research Fellowship
Events planned / social components
Changes from past iterations
Our annual Zeigler podcast episode! This year's winner was Marijke Taks, who joined us to talk about her career journey. She talked about her PhD experience, transitioning to Canada, balance work and family, and her research along the way.
In the second part of our conference costs discussion, Dr. Kyle Rich joined us to provide perspective. We discussed his conference, benefits of running a smaller or larger conference, location value/cost, and the changing dynamics within the conference model.
The first part of our conference costs short series. Dr. Nels Popp walks us through the rising conference costs. We talk about conference site selection, hotel/host costs, conference experiences, and survey insights.
Really excited for this episode. With the huge push of AI happening this year, we brought in Dr. Yiran Su to talk about the intersection of AI and sport management. Our episode focused on academic (teaching + research) and practitioner impact. We talked about ChatGPT, Zoom, and other tech platforms!
We've talked before about collaboration on a research project, but now we want to talk about solo authorship. Dr. Elizabeth Delia at UMass joined to talk about her past experience working on solo papers: deciding on projects, writing sections, reviewer feedback, project management, and advice she would give to others.
Our next episode dives into theory with a new ESMQ article from Erik Lachance, Ashley Thompson, & Jordan Bakhsh. We discussed competing theoretical thoughts, creating new theory in/out of sport, blending theoretical approaches, proposing a new approach, and what it means for doc students/practitioners.
Kicking off our sixth season with an episode on parenting. We follow up on our previous work with Liz Sattler to give insight into parenting, particularly post-pandemic. We talk about "what to expect when you're expecting", having multiple kids, daycare, balancing your schedule, bringing your kids to work events, and much more!
The NASSM episode! We had Dr. Bri Newland lead us off by talking about NASSM governance and conference changes from the past two years, plus an overview of the upcoming schedule. Then Dr. Milena Parent took the lead on Montreal! She overviewed transportation from the airport, amenities around the conference, and events happening in Montreal that coincide with NASSM.
We welcome Dr. Chad McEvoy to talk about negotiation, particularly when considering both outside offers and a chance to stay at your current institution. We discussed the need for some institutions to consider an outside offer to re-negotiate with your current employer, salary adjustments, when to go on the market/when not to, application process, getting an offer, next steps, etc.
Our Zeigler Award Winner annual chat! The 2022 winner, Dr. Larena Hoeber, joined us to talk about qualitative research. We discussed qualitative research paradigms: her first time being exposed to paradigms, learning moments as a up-and-comer, layering our learning, advice to others, qualitative researchers she admires, and advice for reviewing qualitative research!
Candidate (soon to be Dr.!) Kerri Bodin and Dr. Teare joined the podcast to talk about knowledge translation in program evaluation. We discussed the Canadian sport context, sport-for-all compared to high performance, resources available to sport, supporting sport-for-all through knowledge translation, examples through wheelchair basketball + Baseball5, and knowledge translation without a formal partnership.
Episode 2 of our series is Robyn Smith talking about participatory research! Candidate Smith talked about different approaches and key values of participatory research, applications in diverse sport/community contexts, poor uses of PAR, reflection on her own experiences, and a mindset change for the field. We also talked about her experience as a PhD candidate and working to finish her degree, help her research stakeholders, and being a positive impact in the community.
Hummell & Huml! PhD Candidate Hummell came to talk about program evaluation in sport organizations. We discussed what is evaluation, it's importance, why programs should be considering evaluation within their decision making process, program evaluation within the sport management literature, different approaches, benefits/limitations, and why it should be prioritized.This episode is the first in a group of episodes for the Knowledge Translation Grant secured by the Brock University SMGT faculty, led by Dr. Kyle Rich. Check out more on their work at: https://www.krichsportandrec.com/iisport
We had a great time hosting, Dr. Andrea Geurin, who is the Director of the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough, to talk about her experiences working abroad and the various differences in higher education across different systems. We talked about summers being off (or not off!), annual leave, teaching loads, semester length differences, tenure, sabbatical options, student advising, higher education bureaucracy, grading, and much more!
Doctoral student, Tiao Hu, joined the podcast to provide her perspective of choosing and pursuing a PhD as an international student. We talked about her process choosing a PhD program. Then we talked about the challenges for international students in finding housing, securing a job, reviewing school districts for children, and creating a social network. Then we talked about potential higher education barriers, such as choosing an advisor and registering for courses. We finished our discussion talking about how her PhD program has been well suited to help her, areas of weakness, and upcoming job search.
Two Red Raiders joined me to talk about writing and writing groups! We talked about their early experiences writing in a doctoral program, feedback they've received over the years, how their writing has improved over the years, building a writing group, holding each other accountable, and finding the right partners. We bonded over working for TTU but not being a TTU grad leaves you startled when someone yells #GunsUp at you in a public place, plus finished with talking about the fun Lubbock food scene!
Beyond the summary, Dr. Cintron wanted to provide a litany of resources she has found useful:
Lean Start Up, by Eric Reiss (i definitely referenced the author incorrectly in the interview)
Beyond the Professoriate - altac resource
From PhD to Life - career info for PhDs
The Professor is in - career info for PhDs
The Leveraged PhD - business coach for PhDs looking to start an entrepreneurial journey
AAAS Science & Technology Fellowship - a yearlong fellowship in the federal government for PhDs (I applied for this when I was considering government work)
(Cintron, Revised) - my website :-)
50th episode! Dr. Meg Hancock joined us to talk about big picture sport management/higher education topics. We discussed origins of sport management, enrollment pressures, the 1989 movie 'The Wizard', enrollment cliff, higher education costs, talking about current topics deemed politically divisive, and the great food scene in Louisville.
Kicking off Season 5 with my colleague at UC, Dr. Wayne Black! He joins the podcast to introduce us to Critical Research: What is it? The benefits of its approach, best papers to read using critical research, and applications within higher education and sport management. Dr. Black also described how he uses critical research in his own scholarship and why it's an important concept for others to learn.
Last episode of season 4! PhD students Siena Morgan (Loughborough University London) and Chelsey Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology) joined as guests to talk about their experience as part-time doctoral students. They each shared their background and other duties they are completing while doing doctoral work, decision process to go part-time, their program's reaction to their decision, program support and structure challenges for being a part-time student, and potential negatives/positives to being part-time.
Dr. Becky Achen joined us to explore a new-ish concept within the sport management space: NFTs! What are NFTs? What is the blockchain? How are NFTs involved with sport? How widespread is their use? What are fan tokens? And how are sport organizations going to use these tools going forward?
The newly minted Dr. Foster graciously came back and talked to us about the final stage of his doctoral experience. We talked about teaching, research, service, and the job search!
Dr. Richard Lapchick at UCF and Director of Institute for Sport & Social Justice joined the podcast! Our discussion focused on his work within diversity in sport. We started off with discussing his initial motivation and ongoing history fighting for racial and gender equality. Then we talked about how sport organizations have performed on their racial and gender report card since its inception, hiring practices, and his work with the center. A bunch of great stories in this one!
Dr. Jennifer Hoffman at the University of Washington joined us to talk about NIL. We talked about what is NIL and how it's involved with NCAA and NAIA policies, state/federal law, and other machinations that put us down the path of NIL. We also talked about the NCAA's role moving forward, legislative involvement, and future of NIL.
Article w Welch Suggs on Myles Brand: https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/15674
Explainer on Alston/O'Bannon: https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-law/clinic-centers/center-for-law-ethics-commerce/events/the-future-of-college-sports
Dr. Hoffman's link tree: https://linktr.ee/jlhoffman
Dr. Adam Cohen returned to talk about sports gambling! We talked about the changes within the sport gambling industry since PASPA was overturned, various sports gambling entities (business, platforms, consumers), DFS, analytics, growth potential for women's sports, tastemakers, governance, and customer promotions. We also talked about the potential of sports gambling as a academic growth area, with likely uptick coming for doc students, dedicated journal, grants/consultant opportunities. We capped it off by throwing out some baseball bets (for fun!).
Our 2021 Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award Winner joined us! Dr. Marlene Dixon talked about her Zeigler lecture, being the first to do it virtually, past Zeigler lectures, reflecting on her career, positions, working both sides of the Longhorns-Aggie rivalry, and what's to come. She also had some fun by refusing to confirm or deny the secret Zeigler award winner gathering and voting for Vail, CO as a future NASSM Conference location.
Dr. Yannick Kluch joined the podcast for a chat on scholar activism. We talked about what is scholar activism, what drew him to the topic, applying it within sport management, trailblazers within the scholar activism field, why it can make people uncomfortable, barriers, and applying it within research and the classroom.
NASSM Abstracts episode! We had NASSM President Bri Newland (NYU) and Member-At-Large Brian McCullough (Texas A&M) join us to talk about the NASSM abstract review process. We started by talking about common themes for outstanding reviews/reviewers. Then we talked about common mistakes made by reviewers and suggestions on areas where submitted abstracts shouldn't be penalized. Also talked about the five different abstract categories, reviewing works in-progress, and suggestions for those that are planning on submitting an abstract to the conference for the first time.
Dr. Cindy Veraldo from Mount Saint Joseph joined us to talk about course rigor. We talked about whether academic rigor should be considered when designing a course. Also, what about assignments/group projects/discussions or other assessment options? Dr. Veraldo also talked about getting feedback from others on your course, consider the rigor of courses taught by others in your program, and impact on student outcomes + course evaluations.
Dr. Rennae Williams Stowe joined the podcast to talk about (1) working a teaching institution and (2) going through the COSMA accreditation process. We talked about her position at WSSU and her teaching, research, and service expectations. We also discussed possible misperceptions of working at a teaching institution. Then we talked about her experience going through he COSMA accreditation process at WSSU from the faculty perspective. Particularly we talked about effort coming from Dr. Williams Stowe, rigor, and course expectations.
Dr. Brandon Mastromartino joined us to talk about jobs! We talked about the job market: Differences from 2019 or 2020, recovery from COVID(?), and emerging themes. Then we walked through each of the faculty jobs that have been posted so far in 2021. Last we talked briefly on International trends and jobs we've heard may be posted later in 2021/2022.
Our last episode of the season is the annual tradition of re-connecting with Sayvon Foster! Sayvon gave us an update on his doctoral progress, doctoral candidacy, classes taught, recently published research, and service he's been completing in the community.
Lance Warwick joined us to talk about searching for a PhD program. Lance recorded our episode as he was winding down his decision-making process and was willing to share his experiences. We talked about the PhD admission process, guidance he received from mentors, and how he connected with programs and interacted with their faculty.
Proud to have been joined by Marvin Washington from University of Alberta for the podcast. We talked about big-picture topics related to research in sport management: (1) The growing number of sport management journals, (2) Impact/legacy of sport management journals and how they can make long-term changes, and (3) Decision-making process for submitting a manuscript that fits between two major areas.
Dr. Nicole Melton joined the podcast to chat about doing research with undergraduate and graduate students. We discussed on how to connect with students on research projects, setting goals/expectations, keeping tabs on their progress, and potential conversations on doctoral programs. We also chatted about Texas Tech and lessons learned from her doctoral advisor.
Dr. Kathy Babiak joined us to talk about interdisciplinary research! We talked about her research process for a topic that its on sport management and another discipline (e.g., business), seeking out collaborators, deciding on journals, writing style, and other guidance!
Dr. Matthew Katz joined us to talk about juggling research projects. He took a snapshot of projects he was working on back in December 2019 and gave us an update on their progress, timelines, lessons learned, etc. We also chatted about communicating with collaborators and how to decide which projects need to be prioritized.
Staying in contact and tracking career trajectories for sport management alums has become a priority for programs. Dr. Braunstein-Minkove joined the podcast to talk about her work on studying the career trajectories of sport management students and why this is important for departments. We talked about her partnership with university alumni relations and recommendations for other programs wanting to track their student's career achievements.
Dr. Erianne Weight from University of North Carolina joined us to talk about research centers! We talked about UNC's Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics, how the center influences her research, what administrative processes are required to operate the center, working collaboratively with her colleagues, and recommendations she would make for other programs thinking about creating their own research center.
Our NASSM Student President, Georgia Teare, joined us for this episode. We talked about her experience with the student board, the NASSM board, and the great NASSM student initiatives for 2020-21.
Dr. Nefertiti Walker joined us to talk about the mentor-mentee relationship. We started by discussing the mentors and guidance she received during the doctoral student experience. We talked about being a "straight shooter" with doc students and silent mentors. Then we transitioned to her current role as a mentor to others in the field.
This episode welcomes Stacy Warner talking about her role as North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM) Conference Manager. She overviews her yearly role of prepping for the conference, activities during the conference, and post-event responsibilities. We also talked about NASSM's timeline & decision to move the 2020 conference online.
Season 3 is kicked off with Alison Doherty! Dr. Doherty joined us to talk about the importance of theory within research and the field of sport management. Discussion included what is theory, it's importance to research, and how it fits within the teaching and service.
Dr. Natalie Smith of East Tennessee State joined us to talk about creativity and innovation within sport management. We talked about how to implement that into the classroom and research. We also chatted about the sport management job market and people who changed jobs this past year.
Sayvon Foster joined us again to talk about doctoral experience. His second appearance provided an overview of his second year as a doc student. We talked about his progress in teaching, research, and service.
We're back! Dr. Maddy Orr from SUNY-Cortland joined us to talk about sport ecology. She discussed the concept of sport ecology, The Sport Ecology Group, research happening within the field, curriculum applications, and more!
Dr. Richard Southall of South Carolina joined me for an in-person episode to chat about the recent news within college athletics regarding NCAA transfer rules (and proposals), name-image-likeness (plus involvement on NCAA and Congress), Power 5/Group-of-5 dynamics, and other topics.
Dr. Liz Sattler (Illinois State) joined the podcast to talk about becoming a parent as a faculty member. We chatted about breaking the news to your department, preparing for changes to your work availability, what life was like in the days/weeks/months after becoming a parent, biggest adjustments + challenges, and advice for others.
Dr. Seifried joined us to talk about a much-discussed topic: journal reviews! Specifically we talked about getting a review back on your manuscript and how to approach your response. Agree, compromising, and disagreeing with the reviewers? How to format your response document? When to involve the editor? How to handle split opinions from the reviewers? Who gives the best reviews (on average) from sport journals?
Dr. Alicia Cintron joined us to talk about mid-tenure review! It's a process that is rarely discussed until you take a tenure-track job, but it's an important process that is time-consuming and complicated. She talked about her experience in 2018-19 going through the mid-tenure review and advice she would give to others. Following the podcast recording, Dr. Cintron learned that she would be able to respond to comments made by others if she felt compelled, please keep that in mind while listening to this episode
Part two of negotiation! Dean Damon Andrew joined the podcast to talk about faculty negotiation from the perspective of administration and the university making the new hire. Dean Andrew also provides some great insight into his experiences as a faculty member and his own negotiations over the years.
Negotiation Episode - Part 1! Dr. Heidi Grappendorf at Western Carolina joined us to talk about her experience negotiating and advice for others as they get an offer and talking points with their new institution.
Our next guest is the 2019 NASSM Zeigler Award winner, Jennifer McGarry. We talked about her much-discussed Zeigler speech, what it means for our field, and her role as a department chair. We also chatted a little about the holy grail, sabbatical.
Dr. Lindsey Darvin joined the podcast to chat about her tweet on Megan Rapinoe and Alabama football, the message behind it, and why it has been so popular with other members on Twitter. We also talked about starting a research project, choosing topics/themes/research partners, and other important steps.
Kicking off Season 2! We brought Sam Schmidt in to talk about eSport. We talked about defining eSport, platforms, streaming providers, important stakeholders, Sam's involvement in eSport as a college coach, and eSport changes coming in the future. We also chatted about sport management research on eSport and topics that are ripe for examining eSport moving forward.
Sayvon Foster joined us to talk about his first-year PhD experience at Texas A&M University. First, we talked about the application process and deciding factors. Then we dived into the first year of the doctoral experience, including first classes, toughest/easiest, and advice for those starting in the fall.
Amanda Paule-Koba joined the podcast to discuss being a faculty member at a hybrid institution. Main topics discussed include teaching, research, and service expectations, strengths/weaknesses compared to R1 positions, and misconceptions of hybrid jobs. We also chatted about Amanda's co-editor role at the new journal, Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (JADE).
This was the original episode of State of Sport Management podcast with guest Mary Hums. We discussed "what is sport management?", talked about common differences within programs, different college homes, and other distinctions.
Jennifer Gellock re-joins the show to talk about her job search conclusion. Earlier in the year, Jennifer discussed the beginning stages of her job search. Now that Jennifer has accepted a job offer, she returns to chat about her experience, what went well, what didn't go well, and recommendations for those entering the job search next fall.
Our next episodes provides a second perspective of pursuing a job opportunity in the international market. Mike Naraine, Lecturer at Deakin University, talked about the job search, interview process, negotiations, and moving. Plus, with NASSM coming up, we also talked about attending the conference and how conference participation changes as you get older.
Our next guest was Kwame Agyemang, newly minted Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. He talked about the tenure process, approval system, publication expectations, and some recommendations on how he would change the tenure process.
Our newest episode brought in Adam Cohen to talk about the international job market. Adam is a Texas A&M graduate who worked state-side for a handful of years before taking a faculty job at University of Technology Sydney in Australia. We discuss the differences of job searches in the U.S. and abroad, importance of the person's willingness to travel and be far from home, interview process, moving process, and job expectations.
Our fifth episode brought in Dr. George Cunningham as a guest to talk about his role as Editor-in-Chief for Sport Management Review. We talked about his roles and responsibilities as SMR editor, how he and the journal handle split decisions, review time concerns, and special issues. We also talked about the recent spike in SMR's impact factor (and across many sport management journals)and discussed the choice of sending manuscripts out to journals inside and outside the field of sport management.
Our fourth episode continued our discussion on the sport management doctoral experience. Sarah Williams was kind enough to join us and talk about her dissertation experience. We talked about choosing a topic and committee members. We also talked about biggest challenges and advice for those starting their dissertation.
Our third episode is dedicated to the PhD sport management student experience. Jennifer Gellock provided some valuable experience on her initial phases of the job search: how she decides if she'll apply for a job, involvement of VCU faculty in deciding and applying, and how she learns more about institutions who have posted positions. She also chatted about balancing the job search with her remaining responsibilities as a doc student. Was a great conversation and hope you enjoy it!
Our second episode is dedicated towards the first year faculty experience. Dr. Taylor at Temple University talked about her experiences (what worked well, what didn't work well) within research, teaching, and service. She also spoke to how her first year faculty experience affected her personal/social life.