Through a process of collaborative autoethnography we explore the experiences of one female athlete named Bella who was groomed and then sexually abused by her male coach. Bella's story signals how the structural conditions and power relationships embedded in competitive sporting environments, specifically the power invested in the coach, provide a unique socio-cultural context that offer a number of potentialities for sexual abuse and exploitation to take place. We offer Bella's story as a pedagogical resource for those involved in the world of sport to both think about and with as part of a process of encouraging change at the individual and institutional levels.

Friendship as method" is a relatively underexplored-and often unacknowledged-method, even within ethnographic inquiry. In this article, we consider the use of friendship as method in general, and situate this in relation to a specific ethnographic research project, which examined the lived experience of asthma amongst sports participants. The study involved researching individuals with whom the principal researcher had prior existing friendships. Via forms of confessional tales we explore some of the challenges encountered when attempting to negotiate the demands of the dual researcher-friend role, particularly during in-depth interviews. To illustrate our analysis, four sets of tales are examined, cohering around issues of: (1) attachment and when to "let go"; (2) interactional "game-play";(3) "rescuing" participants; and (4) the need for researcher self-care when "things get too much." The need to guard against merger with research participants-as-friends is also addressed. In analysing the tales, we draw upon insights derived from symbolic interactional analyses and in particular upon Goffman's theoretical frameworks on interactional encounters.

). For, whilst it is clearly of importance to address sports participation at the social-structural and ideological levels, an over-emphasis on the abstract and the macro can result in the neglect of the existential, material dimension, and the under-theorisation of the bodily aspects, the 'enfleshment' of lived sporting experience. Given the highly corporeal elements of much sports participation, such a lacuna within the sociology of sport's theoretical pantheon requires some attention. Phenomenology is, we argue, well-equipped to provide us with sharp, perceptive and well-grounded insights into the "here-and-now, raw reality of the body" (Sinclair, 2005: 90), the lived reality of the sensuous sporting body. As Martínková and Parry (2011) note, phenomenologists look at what we normally look through; we look at our human-ness in order to provide an account of what we are and how we experience; in this case how we experience sport and sports participation. Straying from its more philosophical roots, sociological phenomenology acknowledges and addresses the multiple effects of culture and social-structural elements upon lived-body experience. For the purposes of this paper, we adopt Allen- Collinson's (2011b: 299) and Martínková and Parry's (2011: 196) concept of a phenomenologically-inspired sociology, and for ease of reading term this 'sociological phenomenology'.

Drawing on sociological and anthropological theorizations of the senses and "sensory work", the purpose of this article is to investigate via phenomenology-based auto/ethnography, and to generate novel insights into the under-researched sense of thermoception, as the lived sense of temperature. Based on four long-term, in-depth auto/ethnographic research projects, we examine whether thermoception can be conceptualized as a distinct sense or is more appropriately categorised as a specific modality of touch. Empirically and analytically to highlight the salience of thermoception in everyday life, we draw on findings from four auto/ethnographic projects conducted by the authors as long-standing insider members of their various physical-cultural lifeworlds. The foci of the research projects span the physical cultures of distance running, mixed martial arts, traditionalist Chinese martial arts, and boxing. Whilst situated within distinctive physical-cultural frameworks, nevertheless, the commonalities in the thermoceptive elements of our respective experiences as practitioners were striking, and thermoception emerged as highly salient across all four lifeworlds. Our analysis explores the key auto/ethnographic findings, centring on four specific areas: elemental touch, heat of the action, standing still, and tuning in. Emerging from all four studies were key findings relating to the valorization of sweat, and the importance of "temperature work" involving thermoceptive somatic learning, and physical-culturally specific bodily ways of knowing and sense-making. These in turn shape how heat and cold are actually "felt" and experienced in the mind-body.

Dr Helen Owton is a lecturer in psychology based at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Northampton, UK. Her current research focuses on the lived experiences and sensuousness of sporting embodiment through the exploration of creative methodologies (e.g. poetry, narrative, art, autoethnography). AbstractIn recent years, calls have been made to address the relative dearth of qualitative sociological investigation into the sensory dimensions of embodiment, including 'intense embodiment' within physical cultures. This article contributes to a small but developing literature utilising phenomenological sociology to examine sensuous embodiment in this domain. Drawing upon data from three autoethnographic and autophenomenographic research projects, in this article we explore some of the richly textured 'sensuousities' of our lived experience as a distance running-woman and a boxing-woman respectively. Given that the social sciences in general have been accused of a high degree of ocularcentrism, here we address the relatively unexplored haptic sense, particularly the 'touch' of heat. Heat has also been argued to constitute a specific sensory mode, a trans-boundary sense, with elements more commensurate with the olfactory than with the haptic. Our findings suggest that 'lived' heat', in our own physical cultural experiences, has highly proprioceptive elements and is experienced as both a specific form of the haptic and as a distinct perceptual mode, dependent upon context. Our analysis coheres around two key themes that emerged as salient from the data: 1) warming up, and 2) thermoregulation, encountered in lived experience as strongly interwoven.

We examined trainee practitioners' initial experiences of applied sport psychology practice.Semi-structured interviews (4) were conducted over 6 months with 7 full-time MSc students before, during, and after the applied sport psychology module, when they were working with clients. Participants also kept reflective diaries over an 8-week Practitioners were tracked over 6 years collecting qualitative data through interviews before, during, and after formal postgraduate training. As trainees, motivations to enter into the field of applied sport psychology included the gratification of helping others and a desire to help athletes with issues they had experienced as sport participants. Tod et al. (2009) argued that some of these motives were socially acceptable transformations of self-serving desires to reduce intra-and inter-personal conflicts. Also trainees often adopted rigid "expert"

1Maintaining involvement in sport and exercise activities is a challenge for 2 mothers with young children. This study therefore qualitatively explores the experiences 3 of 7 mothers who have managed to remain physically active in team sports exploring how 4 the team environment might meet their psychological needs. We analyse the results 5 through Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Semi-structured interviews were thematically 6 analysed to reveal the following themes: perceived benefits of sport, perceived benefits of 7 being part of a team, needing time out from being a mother, social support and 8 empowerment and self-determination. Feelings of competence, autonomy and relatedness 9 were interwoven to these themes thus demonstrating the applicability of SDT to this 10 domain.

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