When a Choice Becomes a Chance: My Encounters with Sports History |
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| Authors: | Li Liu |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Sports and Physical Education, Anhhui Normal University, Wuhu, Chinaliulihappy1206@163.comliuli2016059@ahnu.edu.cn |
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| Abstract: | AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the author’s encounters with sports history through a brief commentary of being an overseas graduate student in Ireland and Australia. By using biographic and narrative approaches, this paper will first introduce readers to Physical Education class in rural China in the 1990s followed by the author’s connections with sport during college. It then focuses on the author’s professional academic training in sports history in China and abroad. In particular, this essay attempts to demonstrate the importance of good supervision as well as understanding research paradigms in sports history, including dealing with data collection and analysis, ethical considerations, theory selection, and critical thinking. As an early stage career researcher, the author emphasizes the importance of attending conferences and joining in with sports history communities in order to develop academic social networks. It further argues the necessity of being up to date with major sports history journals. |
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| Keywords: | Sports history research paradigm academic trainings early career researchers elective course |
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