Zoë Avner Editor

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.

Zoë Avner is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching at Northumbria University, UK 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.

Jim Denison is a former NCAA Division I middle-distance runner who also competed internationally following his university career. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, Canada. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the formation of coaches’ practices through a post-structuralist lens.