Allison Jeffrey Editor

Dr Luke Jones is a Lecturer in sport coaching at the University of Bath, UK, and a former youth international and semi-professional footballer. Luke’s doctoral research and subsequent research programme has focussed upon exploring retirement from sport using a socio-cultural perspective including how former athletes relate to their own exercise. He has also published in leading socio-cultural journals including (but not limited to) the International Review for Sociology of Sport, Sport, Education and Society, Leisure Studies, and Sports Coaching Review. Luke has also co-edited a special edition of Sports Coaching Review.

Dr Zoë Avner is a Lecturer in Sports Coaching at Deakin University, Australia and a former French youth international and semi-professional footballer. Her research draws on poststructuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning, power and coaching, and coaching ethics. Broadly, her work seeks to support the development of more ethical coaching practices and more diverse, equitable, and inclusive physical cultures both within traditional mainstream and emerging alternative lifestyle sporting contexts. She has published in a number of high-profile journals such as Quest, Sports Coaching Review, and Sport, Education and Society.

Dr Allison Jeffrey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Studies in Community and Sport at Cape Breton University, Canada. Her research engages theoretical frameworks of posthumanisms in attempts towards expanding understandings of moving bodies. Her work considers the human/nonhuman influences that are present in movement contexts and she has been involved in a number of projects focusing on ageing movement practitioners. Dr Jeffrey’s previous research prioritized yoga and dance communities, while her current research addresses outdoor movement facilitation. She has published in a range of high-profile journals including, the Sociology of Sport Journal, Frontiers, and Leisure Studies.