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Postqualitative Inquiry in Sport, Exercise and Health Symposium

November 11-12 2025
9am - 6pm Portuguese time (GMT+1)
Porto, Portugal

Hybrid Event– online/in-person

What is Postqualitative Inquiry?

Postqualitative Inquiry (PQI) offers researchers an alternative starting point for their inquiries. Unbound by conventional labels and methods, proponents of PQI are able to see typical research problems in sport and exercise in new ways that seem liberating, even daring. However, freedom from method can be alienating and a barrier to our common understanding that some find elitist, even dangerous. In this symposium we confront these challenges and consider how post-qualitative inquirers might respond.

About

International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Special
Special Interest Group 2025-2027
Postqualitative Inquiry in Sport, Exercise and Health

International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (QRSE) special interest groups (SIG) provide an active forum for networking, discussion, activities, knowledge sharing and debate amongst QRSE members. Special interest groups focus on philosophical, methodological, geographical, cultural or methods-based interests. Further information can be found on the QRSE’s websitehttps://www.qrsesoc.com/

The Postqualitative Inquiry in Sport, Exercise and Health SIG provides a collaborative space for inquirers exploring postqualitative, (critical) posthumanisms, new materialism, postfoundationalism and other approaches entangling with poststructuralism and the ontological turn. Recognising the rich traditions of qualitative inquiry, this SIG seeks to expand methodological conversations by engaging with creative, relational, speculative, material, and affective dimensions of inquiry in sport, exercise, and health.

Without replacing or opposing established methods, postqualitative inquiry offers opportunities to work across disciplines, rethink research as inquiry (a decolonial move), and explore alternative ways of knowing and becoming. By fostering dialogue and connection, the Postqualitative Inquiry in Sport, Exercise and Health SIG aims to cultivate a supportive community where inquirers can share ideas, experiment with innovative approaches, and collaboratively create inquiry landscapes.

Program

Day 1 – November 11 2025

09:00 - 09:30

Welcome and arrival

09:30 - 10:15

Opening Remarks

Representative of the Gondomar City Hall, Portugal
Representative of the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
Representative of the Instituto Europeu de Estudos Superiores, Portugal
Aspasia Dania, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Interim President, QRSE

10:15 - 11:00

The QRSE Special Interest Group on PQI: Aims and Events

Angela Beggan

University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom

[Somewhere between Daring and Dangerous?]

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Daring? – how is PQI expanding Sport and Exercise knowledge/practice (hybrid)

11:30 - 12:00

Affectivity as pedagogy in the physical education classroom

Aspasia Dania

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Interim President, QRSE

12:00 - 12:30

Slowly Moving Movement Post Qualitatively: Generelating Through The (Im)possibilities of Physical Activity in Youth (E)Sports

Lasse Nørgaard Frandsen

Aalborg University, Denmark

12:30 - 13:00

Toward an Ethic of Response-Ability in Coaching Science

Fernando Santos

Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

In-Person Moderator:
Martin Camiré

University of Ottawa, Canada

Online Moderators:
Marta Ferreira & Luís Dias,

Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Dangerous? – what are the risks/rewards of PQI and how can we dareresponsibly (HYBRID)

Sample Panel Questions:

What are the risks/rewards of doing away with methodology?
What are the pedagogical implications for qualitative research methods classes?
What are the benefits/tensions of PQI in sport and exercise research for ECRs?

Martin Camiré

University of Ottawa, Canada

Benjamin Carr

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Zoe Avner

Deakin University, Australia

Fernando Santos

Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

In-Person Moderator:
Angela Beggan

University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom

Online Moderators:
Inês Gonçalves & Luís Dias

Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00

Roundtable Discussions with Specific Themes

Example: Studying movement through PQI
Example: Challenges to understanding PQI-related terminology

Day 2 – November 12 2025

09:30 - 17:30

Getting Together Differently: A PQI Unstructuring of Conferencing

Thought-inspiring discussions at thought-inspiring locations throughout Porto

09:30 - 10:00

Meeting point downtown Porto

Combi Coffee Roasters:

R. do Morgado de Mateus nº29, 4000-334

10:00 - 11:00

PQI Discussions at Jardim Marques de Oliveira

11:00 - 12:30

Walking Pedagogy Activity

Walk from Jardim Marques de Oliveira to Barao Fladgate Restaurant
Get together in groups of 2-3, walk to lunch
During the walk, SEE the city, live it, smell it, hear it
Engage in the walk by thinking through a particular object or concept
Document the walk using pictures, videos, etc.

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch at Barao Fladgate

Exchange experiences from the walking pedagogy activity

14:30 - 17:30

PQI Discussions on the Terrasse: Yeatman Hotel

Registration

Registration to this event is free, but should be submitted here:

Team

Angela Beegan

SIG Chair

Angela Beggan is a senior lecturer/associate professor at the University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom and member of Sport and Physical Activity Research Institute (SPARI). She teaches physical activity for public health and qualitative research methods across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Angela’s research engages both narrative and postqualitive inquiries to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions in the practice of physical activity intervention. Drawing on new materialism, her work reimagines what inquiry and intervention can do beyond conventional paradigms.

Research gate

Martin Camiré

Steering Group

Martin Camiré is a Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Professor Camiré inquires on sport, youth development, coaching, and movement, doing so from a variety of theoretical and paradigmatic approaches. In his recent work, Professor Camiré has worked to open methodological possibilities for inquiring in sport science, advocating for a transition from intervention to intravention while also promoting the use of material-performative pedagogies in qualitative training. Professor Camiré teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of physical activity and health, ethics, and qualitative methods, doing so by pedagogically entangling conventional and postqualitative approaches.

Research gate

Fernando Santos

Steering Group

Fernando Santos is an associate professor at the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal. Over the last 10 years, he has attempted to use inquiry to prompt alternative thinking about youth sport through national grants and community projects. His areas of research include thinking about ways to develop (post) thinking within the area of youth sport.

Research gate

Comissões

Comissão Organizadora

Presidentes Gerais
‍Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)

Comissão Organizadora

Presidentes Gerais
‍Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)

Comissão Científica

Presidentes Gerais
‍Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)
Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)
Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)
Maria Manuela Lopes — P.PORTO (PT)
Paulo Bernardino Bastos — U Aveiro (PT)
Suzete Venturelli — UAM (BR)
Antenor Correa — UNB (BR)

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