Alex Thurston

New 3rd edition of (the late) Prof Trevor Slack’s seminal sport management textbook is finally OUT NOW!! 📚🤓 To understand the complexity of the project/some background, read here: linkedin.com/posts/alex-thu… #sportmanagement #seminal #textbook #sport #management #humankinetics

A great end to the EASM conference in Paris in which PhD students and staff bear testimony to global thought leadership in sport management of @lborouniversity

Alex Thurston presenting his excellent research on the challenges of transgender policies in governing bodies in sport at #EASM in Paris. @lborouniversity

Great to be at the Paralympics with Sport Management colleagues following a great day at the EASM conference. @EASMBoard @lborouniversity

@DrBorjaGarcia @MSLJournal Congrats, Borja! Looks a great paper! 👏🙌

New #RubialesUpdate! This time in the form of a paper published! My take on the structures behind what happened at @rfef as a symptom of deeper problems in Spanish sport. In @MSLJournal and open access! doi.org/10.1080/237504…

@downward_paul Off to see that in a few days’ time!

@DrAlexjt Oh yes it is!

It's not Boxing day without a pantomime🤪

@LouiseElliotM @sharrond62 …

I'm desperately hoping this isn't true. It appears that a 50 year old man that wants to be a woman, Melody Wiseheart, has been swimming against teenage girls of only 13 and 14 years. To all the Reality-Denying-Be-Kinds-Mens-Feelings-Matter-Most people out there..... this is on you! 😡

@MichaelSabres14 I think you’re on the money there, Michael!

@DrAlexjt @lborouniversity @LboroPR @LboroSport @EASMBoard @LboroSSEHS Hi Alex, The open category is the compromise you make when you do not want to compromise. The effect is to put trans women in the men's competition- exactly what the people who proposed this hoped for. Not so much a compromise as a smokescreen.

Intention of our diverse/interdisciplinary research team: illuminate the difficulties & conflicts that exist in this space, & how NGBs/IFs could better navigate the complex & complicated policy implementation landscape, without the intrusion of personal political agenda #easm2023

@sethkirby @EASMBoard @LboroSSEHS Thanks, Seth! It was a busy week! I mean, I we sat next to each other during one presentation, but there was no time to catch up! 🙈🤓

@DrAlexjt @EASMBoard @LboroSSEHS Good work Alex, sorry I missed your presentation!

#easm #easm2023 #sportmanagement #sportsmanagement #sportbiz #sportpolicy #policy #implementation #management #sport #conflict #transgender #athletes #elitesport #ngb #IFs #nationalgoverningbody #swimming #rugbyunion #rugbysevens #triathlon

@downward_paul Did you go in there at all?

Adiós amigo.

@downward_paul @MarijkeTaks @NASSM Congrats, Marijke! 👏👏

Great to see @MarijkeTaks honoured with the Earle F. Zeigler award at NASSM 2023 @NASSM.

@downward_paul @StefanWalzel Lads, lads, lads! 🍻🙌

A ha...my good friend @StefanWalzel and I meet for a beer in Montreal!

@matdowling @lborouniversity See you shortly on the campus of dreams! 💜😎

Looking forward to visiting @DrAlexjt at @lborouniversity going back to my roots today! It’s been a minute

@DrGemmaWitcomb @CR_UK @LboroSSEHS @OvarianCancerUK @VulvalCancerUK @LaurenSherar1 @inesvarelasilva 💥🥊 👏🙌

Come & join us to work on two amazing women & sport projects: - a funded PhD scholarship for @IWGWomenSport - Project Officer for @wish_pathway Please share widely @IainLindsey @DrCRMatthews @verity_pos @DrAlexjt @SportDevDebate @alexculvin @LouMorby and others!

@andimanley Pleased to see you didn’t go out like a proper soft lad for once! 👀😆 Great effort, mate🔥🙌

All the Manley boys racing in the 100m Fly at Nottinghamshire County Champs today!! I could really have done with another turn at 75m having not raced long course since 2009 🤣

@sharrond62 Nice graphic, Sharron. I’d like to include next time I talk about this issue (sport management/rule-writing/policy implementation perspective, which - at time of presenting last year - I summarised as a ‘sh*t show’ 😬😅) - where’s the source? Has it been compiled for your book?

I cannot wait to get my book Unfair Play out there this spring with a few home truths! Its been a tough few months, incredibly frustrating mapping women’s sport and all the injustices, over decades, as well as the unscrupulous flawed studies used and lobbying behind the scenes.

Absolute scenes!! 🎯🔥