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SORN Network

The Sport Organisation Research Network (SORN) is an academic community of sport sociologists under the umbrella of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (eass) and has been founded during the eass conference in Cordoba 2013. The aim of the network is to create opportunities for scientific discussion and exchange in order to understand similarities and differences of sport organisations across Europe.

For further information as well as for joining SORN please contact Siegfried Nagel (University of Bern, Switzerland): siegfried.nagel@ispw.unibe.ch.

POLIS Network

POLIS stands for Polity, Politics and Policy of Sport. POLIS aims at a closer cooperation of academics who work in the emerging field of sport politics or who deal with political issues related to sport. Following a spontaneous initiative of Jeroen Scheerder (University of Leuven) and Juergen Mittag (German Sport University Cologne) during bilateral guest lectures at the respective universities the idea was fostered to establish a network that is dedicated to political sciences oriented approaches in sport. Seeing the emerge of more and more studies in the field there is apparently a growing demand for systematic reflections and a stronger collaboration among researchers in Europe.
The support for this idea has become evident at several conferences a few months later such as the EASS conference 2017 in Prague and the Sport&EU-conference 2017 in Molde. Ever since the POLIS network is loosely connected to both organisations

For further information as well as for joining POLIS please contact Till Mueller-Schoell (University of Cologne, Germany): t.mueller-schoell@dshs-koeln.de

MEASURE Network

MEASURE stands for Meeting for European Sport Participation and Sport Culture Research. MEASURE is an international network of researchers aiming to develop the understanding of trends and differences in sportparticipation across countries and across time. The MEASURE network was inititated at the 7th EASS meeting in Porto in 2010 by Koen Breedveld and Remco Hoekman of the Mulier Institute, and Jeroen Scheerder of the Catholic University Leuven, with the following objectives:to improve the access to reliable sport participation data and the possibility for researchers to exchange information;to improve the quality of sport participation data;
to improve the understanding of differences in sport participation between countries and social groups; to raise interest in sport participation research among policy makers.

For further information as well as for joining MEASURE please contact Remco Hoekman (Mulier Institute, The Netherlands): r.hoekman@mulierinstituut.nl