The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference took place in Vancouver and Seattle from November 6-8, 2025, along with virtual sessions. Centring on the theme of Sport, Justice and Belonging: Critical Analysis and Worldmaking, scholars at the Vancouver conference gathered at UBC Robson Square to share recent research. Congratulations to the CSS affiliates who presented at the conference, listed below!
Shabana Ali – Presented Unsettling the Racialized Settler: Decentring Non-Indigenous Racial Oppression, participated in a panel discussion – The Messiness of Resistance and Worldmaking in the Outdoors
Dr. Andrea Bundon – Organized (Dis)ability, Justice, Belonging and Sport Washing
Dr. Nikolaus Dean – Organized Action Sports in ‘The Great White North‘, and presented with L. Dugan Nichols on Action Sports in Canada: New Landscapes and Context. Nik also presented Investigating the Paralympic Potential of Skateboarding.
Dr. Brad Millington – Framing sports analytics in the Canadian amateur sport system
Dr. Moss Norman – Sport Sociology’s Place in Unsettling Critical Masculinities Studies?
Dr. Courtney Szto – Organized The Messiness of Resistance and Worldmaking in the Outdoors, and presented Building Community with Intention: Ethnographic Experiences with Outdoor Asian
Jeanette Steinmann – A swerving path: Cycling, disability, and queer & trans identity in Vancouver
Joseph Silva presenting on Breaking’s potential for negotiation discrimination amongst Southeast Asian populations.
Julia Lawrence presenting Environmental discourses and the politics of nature at Whistler Blackcomb.
Congratulations also to the following UBC colleagues who presented at the conference!
Sara Kramers – Exploring women coaches’ sense of identity within competitive sport contexts
Sam Mew – A Lifetime of Exposure: Women’s Realities of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Steph Stressing – Tracking status: Wearable tech and the digital body
Kailan Tan – Youth with SCI and Parents Experiences with Physical Activity Participation
Maya Willis-Fry – A Social Exploration of Older Adults’ Yoga in Community Centres
Congratulations to UBC MA student Seray Cagla Keles Elbasan, who won the Barbara Brown Paper Award for her paper titled Climbing as a Woman: A Feminist Phenomenological Exploration of Turkish Women Climbers’ Embodied Experiences. She also presented Climbing Rocks, Challenging Norms: Turkish Women’s Climbing Experiences.
Congratulations to Dr. Shawn Forde, CSS affiliate and Assistant Professor at UBC, who was recognized as a NASSS Research Fellow!
Members of the Sport Environment Peace Media group based at UBC, who attended the conference: Brian Wilson, Jeanette Steinmann, Joseph Silva, and Julia Lawrence.