Priorities for researching ‘race’, ethnicity and racism in sports coaching and recommendations for future practice

This chapter begins by presenting some of the editors’ observations as to the potential priorities for future research in the important field of enquiry. The adoption of a somewhat ‘radical’ policy such as the ‘Rooney Rule’ illustrates not only how a field such as sport can be disrupted by anti-racist politics and critical academic thought, but that sport can play a central role in raising the anti-racist agenda across other spheres of social life. The collection is themed around key areas of investigation; representation and racialised barriers in sports coaching, racialised identities, diversity and intersectionality in sports coaching, and formalised racial equality interventions in sports coaching. This impressive scope of subjects highlights the growing scholarly attention that the field of ‘race’, ethnicity and racism in sports coaching is receiving and the variety of issues being considered and examined.