Journal publications

What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms
Justen O’Connor , Ruth Jeanes, Jonathan Magee, Ramón Spaaij, Dawn Penney & Satoshi Miyashita (2025), Journal of Sport and Social Issues

A mixed-method analysis of the contribution of informal sport to public health in Australia
Ruth Jeanes, Justen O’Connor, Dawn Penney, Ramon Spaaij, Jonathan Magee, Eibhlish O’Hara & Lisa Lymbery (2024), Health Promotion International, Volume 39, Issue 3.

Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance
Satoshi Miyashita, Justen O’Connor and Ruth Jeanes (2024), International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0(0).

Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia
Spaaij, R., Magee, J., Jeanes, R., Penney, D., & O’Connor, J. (2023). Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(17), 4352–4371.

Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation
Ruth Jeanes, Dawn Penney, Justen O’Connor, Ramon Spaaij, Eibhlish O’Hara, Jonathan Magee & Lisa Lymbery (2022), Leisure Studies.

Informal sport and curriculum futures: An investigation of the knowledge, skills and understandings for participation and the possibilities for physical education
O’Connor, J., & Penney, D. (2020). European Physical Education Review. April 2020.

Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities
Jeanes, R., Spaaij, R., Penney, D., & O’Connor, J. (2019). International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 11(1), 79-95.

Conference presentations

Informal sport and urban development: Examining the contested nature of informal sporting spaces (pdf)
Jeanes, R., Penney, D., Spaaij, R., & O’Connor, J. [Slides from the World Congress of Sociology of Sport, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 2019].

Educative purposes, learning and new participation pathways for health and physical education
O’Connor, J., & Penney, D. [Presented at the AIESEP World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2018].

Formalising informal sport? Opportunities and tensions in developing informal participation (pdf)
Jeanes, R., Penney, D., Spaaij, R., & O’Connor, J. [Slides from the The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) annual conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, November 2017].