Peer reviewed articles

Elling-Machartzki, A. & Smits, F. (2012). Samen douchen geen probleem? Reproductie en uitdaging van homonegativiteit in de sport. Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie, 36(4): 259-270.

International Socio-Cultural Women's Artistic Gymnastics research group (ISCWAG). (2020). The future of women's artistic gymnastics: Eight actions to protect gymnasts from abuse. Science of Gymnastics Journal, 12(3): 441-445.

Jacobs, F., Smits, F. & Knoppers, A. (2017).'You don't realize what you see!': the institutional context of emotional abuse in elite youth sport. Sports in Society, 20(1): 126-143.

Knoppers, A., McLachlan, F., Spaaij, R., Smits, F. (2021). Subtexts of research on diversity in sport organizations: queering intersectional perspectives. Journal of Sport Management, doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2021-0266.

Smits, Jacobs, F. & Knoppers, A. (2022). "Can you deny her that?" Processes of Governmentality and Socialization of Parents in Elite Women's Gymnastics. Frontiers Psychology. 13:829352. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.829352.

Smits, F. & Knoppers, A. (2021). Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project. Sport in Society, doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2022.2017827

Smits, F. & Knoppers, A. (2020). The way we roll: The use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors. Annals of Leisure Research, doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1836664.

Smits, F., Knoppers, A. & Elling, A. (2020). "Everything is said with a smile": Homonegative speech acts in sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(3): 343-360.

Smits, F. (2019). Young Dutch commercially sponsored kite surfers: Free as a bird? Sport in Society, 22(10): 1707-1723.

Smits, F., Knoppers, A. & Van Doodewaard, C. (2019). ‘We must not engage in the blind glorification of sport’: Christian orthodox youths negotiate dominant societal and alternative Reformed sport discourses. Sport in Society, 22(2): 281-295.

Smits, F., Jacobs, F. & Knoppers, A. (2017). ‘Everything revolves around gymnastics’. How elite athletes and their parents make sense of practices in women’s gymnastics that challenges a positive pedagogical culture. Sports in Society, 20(1): 66-83.

Wisse, E., Lucassen, J., Smits, F., Reijgersberg, N., Salome, L. & Luijt, R. (2011). Leefstijlsporten: van tegencultuur tot webbased sportnetwerk. Vrijetijdstudies, 29(1): 17-26.