Advancing Cultural Praxis in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Advancing Cultural Praxis in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

Journal: Journal of Sport Psychology in Action

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

About the Special Issue

The Journal of Sport Psychology in Action invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Advancing Cultural Praxis in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology."

This Special Issue aims to move beyond theoretical discussions and highlight how cultural praxis is actively implemented across sport, exercise, and performance psychology. It emphasizes practical, culturally responsive approaches that integrate cultural awareness, humility, competence, contextual responsiveness, and applied action into professional practice.

Culture is viewed broadly, encompassing race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality, language, religion, socioeconomic status, and intersecting identities. The issue encourages submissions that demonstrate how culture meaningfully shapes assessment, intervention, decision-making, and outcomes while offering practical guidance that practitioners can immediately apply.

Themes and Topics

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Cultural praxis in athlete, client, and performance interventions

• Team culture, leadership, cohesion, and group dynamics

• Organizational policies and high-performance systems

• Culturally responsive assessment and intervention strategies

• Applied case studies and practice-based reports

• Program design and evaluation

• Reflective practitioner accounts grounded in evidence

• Practitioner-researcher collaboration

• Power, ethics, representation, and reflexivity in practice

• Cross-cultural and multinational perspectives in sport psychology

Submission Guidelines

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

• Manuscripts should follow the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action author guidelines.

• All submissions will undergo the journal's standard peer-review process.

• Contributions should provide clear "how-to" guidance, practical frameworks, tools, templates, or structured strategies for practitioners.

• Practice-informed scholarship and meaningful collaboration with practitioners are strongly encouraged.

Special Issue Editors

• Ale Quartiroli, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse (USA) / University of Portsmouth (UK)

• Kensa Gunter, Gunter Psychological Services

• Antoinette Minniti, High Performance Sport New Zealand

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