The future for sport officiating research: An expert statement

Webb, Tom, Hancock, David, Weston, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9531-3004, Warner, Stacey, Helsen, Wener, McMahon, Claire, Brick, Noel, Samuel, Roy and Tingle, Jacob (2025) The future for sport officiating research: An expert statement. Managing Sport and Leisure. ISSN 2375-0472 (In Press)

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Abstract

Research, coverage, and understanding in sport officiating related scholarly activity has increased markedly in the last decade. Sport officials (referees, judges, umpires) have been historically underrepresented in the sport management, psychology, and physiology literature, but this collection of experts provide avenues for collaboration and exploration that can contribute to understanding systems, individuals, and initiate real-world changes for sporting organisations, policy makers, and officials themselves. Focused and organised around the key research areas and priorities of physiology, decision making, psychology, mental health, management, and training and development, this statement offers detail on the development of the research and associated literature and provides proposals for future scholarship linked to each of the key research areas.