SMAANZ announces 2019 Awards and Grants recipients

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October 7, 2019

With its 2019 conference being held at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch from 4th to 6th December, the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) has announced the winners and recipients of its 2019 SMAANZ Awards and Grants.

All award winners will be acknowledged at the 2019 SMAANZ Conference.

The winners are:

Best Paper Award
Per Svensson, Shinhee Jeong, Brad Shuck* & Marcella Otto
Louisiana State University & *University of Louisville, USA
‘Antecedents and outcomes of employee engagements in non-profit sport organisations’

Student Research Award
Katherine Raw
Western Sydney University, Australia
‘Sport for social cohesion: Exploring management and impacts’

Student Travel Assistance Grant Winners
Greg Joachim
UTS, Australia

Carlos Zardini
Griffith University, Australia

Mel Johnston
AUT, New Zealand

Umer Hussain
Texas A&M, USA

Founded in 1995, the principal aim of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand is to encourage scholarly inquiry into sport management related research and to provide the opportunity to present results from this research.

SMAANZ conducts its annual conference to facilitate the presentation of sport management related research.

Click here for more information on the SMAANZ Conference in the Australasian Leisure Management industry Calendar.

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