Word from the Editor

Dear members of the EASM community

I hope that you continue to be safe and well in these times of ongoing challenge. As we move towards the summer, I just wanted to share some updates with you.

Following a couple of action points from the last Board meeting in Seville. The Associate Editors and I have been working hard to ensure that the Board:

1. 1. becomes balanced in terms of gender diversity
   2. has some gaps in particular areas of expertise filled
   3. brings some earlier career academics onto the Board to help to ensure progression

With this in mind, I would like to welcome on your behalf the following colleagues onto the Board.

1. Following the last Board meeting we have also appointed a further two Associate Editors to help with the increase in workload – which has also really spiked since the lockdown. I would therefore like to welcome our existing Board members, Andrea Geurin and Brian Soebbing, to the Associate Editor team.
2. On behalf of the Board and former editors I would also like my sincere thanks to both Lucie Thibault and Dimitra Papadimitriou who have decided to step down from the Board because of other commitments. Lucie, Dimitra, the ESMQ community owes you a debt for the legacy of your work. Thank you both very much for your service to the journal.”

Paul

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Dear EASM Members,

The EASM Board is delighted to draw your attention to a new initiative –  the Global Classroom Programme (GCP) – with Drexel University, Pennsylvania (USA), designed to enhance the intercultural and collaborative learning of sport management colleagues, graduate, and undergraduate students. This initiative is part of a broader collaborative programme with our North American colleagues. It is based on the pedagogy of global classroom and aims to introduce staff and students on both sides of the Atlantic with the latest developments in the field of sport management. At the core of the global classroom pedagogy is the idea of collaborative learning where students in an interactive way explore the structures, policies, business models and practices of sport management in Europe and North America.

The GCR is open to any member of EASM, and we invite expressions of interest to host one or more of the proposed topics below. Courses with 100, 200 and 300 codes refer to year one, two and three, respectively. The GCP uses modern video technology to engage staff and students in real time. The format of different session will be agreed between the hosting institutions. The plan is to make all GCP sessions available to the entire EASM community for free. We aim to complete the GCP plan by the end of July so it can run from the start of the new 2020-21 academic year.

Should you and your sport management programme be interested in participating in the GCP, please complete the table below and send it to the EASM office at office@easm.net

Click: Proposed Topic Themes

Summer School Update 

During the last week, the 11th Summer School would have originally taken place in Madrid. Although we have continued to remain optimistic that the postponed Summer School could go ahead at a later date, the safety and well-being of our EASM community must always take priority.

EASM and its partners have continued to monitor the situation and navigate its way through this uncertain time. However, due to the unpredictable nature of the coming months, we were compelled to make the tough decision to postpone the EASM Summer School to next year, 12-16 May 2021.

Dear EASM members,

We would like to thank you all for your patience at this time and the positive response to the announcement of our virtual conference. The scientific committee have been busy planning and the EASM Board would like to take this opportunity to communicate the following new timeline.

Submission closes                                          1^st May 2020 (23.59 CET)

Reviews and decision released                                  29^th May 2020

Uploading revisions where required closes              15^th June 2020

Review and decision process concludes                    30^th June 2020

Conference program released                                      14^th July 2020

The scientific committee has decided to extend the submission deadline to the 1st of May 2020. We are unable to communicate the conference dates until submission closes as the time zones of various presenters will need to be considered. As you can imagine, this is a complex process and we thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.

Finally, submission and participation to the virtual conference is free of charge in return the EASM community is kindly asked to consider contributing to an EASM membership and current members are also asked to renew their memberships for 2020/21 via https://easm.devserv24.de/become-a-member/.

Thank you for your continued understanding and support and most importantly, we wish everyone well during this time.

Best wishes,

The EASM Board

Dear EASM colleagues,

I am pleased to say that Taylor and Francis have now corrected the submission guidelines on the web-page. The error was caused by a global update on information about open-access publication being added to journals’ web-pages which overwrote their specific submission requirements.

Thanks all and sorry to trouble you with this suite of communications.

Best wishes,

Paul.

Editor ESMQ