Table of Contents

1. Introduction: An invitation to qualitative research PART I: Traditions of Qualitative Research 2.Breathing in life: Phenomenological perspectives on sport and exercise 3. Doing grounded theory in sport and exercise 4. Narrative Inquiry: From cardinal to marginal…and back? 5. Ethnography 6. Case studies 7. Feminisms 8. Embarking on community based participatory action research: A methodology that emerges from (and in) communities PART II: Collecting Qualitative Data 9. Interviews: Qualitative interviewing in the sport and exercise sciences 10. Conducting observations in sport and exercise settings 11. Visual research methods 12. Media research: From text to context 13. Using material objects and artifacts in research 14. Documents of life - from diaries to autobiographies to biographical objects PART III: Analyzing Qualitative Data 15.Using thematic analysis in sport and exercise research 16. Phenomenological analysis in sport and exercise 17. Interpretative phenomenological analysis in sport and exercise: Getting at experience 18. Critical discourse analysis in sport and exercise: What, why and how 19. Conversational analysis is sport and exercise 20. Narrative analysis in sport and exercise: How can it be done? 21. Synthesizing qualitative research: Meta-synthesis in sport and exercise PART IV: Representation, Evaluation and Ethics 22. In defense of realist tales 23. Creative analytical practices 24. Ethics in sport and exercise research: From research ethics committees to ethics in the field 25. Re-thinking ‘validity’ and ‘trustworthiness’ in qualitative inquiry: How might we judge the quality of qualitative research in Sport and Exercise Sciences? PART V: Opening Up Qualitative Research Practices in Sport and Exercise 26. Researching the senses in sport and exercise 27. The web and digital qualitative methods: Researching online and researching the online in sport and exercise studies 28. Pluralistic data analysis: Theory and practice 29. Mixed methods research in sport and exercise: Integrating qualitative research 30. The role of theory, interpretation and critical thought within qualitative sport and exercise research 31. Teaching qualitative research 32. Knowledge, not numbers: Qualitative research and impact in sport, exercise and health 33. Moving between worldviews: Indigenous physical cultures through Indigenous eyes PART VI: Future Visions 34. Thinking about the future: Challenges and opportunities 35. A look at the future of qualitative methodology through the prism of athlete career research 36. Qualitative research in search of ‘truth’ and agency: Challenges and opportunities for qualitative research 37. Challenges and opportunities for qualitative research: Future directions 38. Embracing the messiness of qualitative research: Challenges and opportunities for qualitative researchers in sport and exercise

About the Author

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, PhD 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.

Reviews

"With the ever-expanding field of qualitative research in sport and exercise, the Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is timely and extremely useful. It is extensive and covers many elements related to qualitative research in the sport and exercise sciences from conceptual underpinnings to processes to future directions."Mark Brooke, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore