{"id":387,"date":"2020-12-07T16:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=387"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:26:52","slug":"new-publication-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"New Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Article.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-388 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Article.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Article.png 679w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Article-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our new postgraduate students, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/LuckyMoore15\" >Lucy Moore<\/a>, recently published a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.libezproxy.open.ac.uk\/10.1080\/19406940.2020.1844274\" >commentary article in the International Journal of Sports Policy and Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her article argues that there needs to be a re-orientation of approaches towards understanding policy design and implementation in high-performance sport.\u00a0 Existing approaches tend to view sports organisations as though they somehow make and implement policy. This ignores the interactions and networks of interdependent people who work within, on and for governing organisations. It is these people who make and implement policy not \u2018organisations\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, there is an opportunity to propose an alternative approach. Lucy argued that drawing on the work of social theorist Norbert Elias\u2019, and in particular his concept of figurations and associated \u2018Game Models\u2019, an alternative perspective to policy making in UK high-performance sport can be developed.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy is now embarking on data collection and we look forward to seeing how her research develops in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Lucy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our new postgraduate students, Lucy Moore, recently published a commentary article in the International Journal of Sports Policy and Politics. Her article argues that there needs to be a re-orientation of approaches towards understanding policy design and implementation in high-performance sport.\u00a0 Existing approaches tend to view sports organisations as though they somehow make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=387\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Publication<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-paper","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}