GSUN Membership
Grow your impact. Shape your future.
Why become a member?
Expand your global network.
Become a part of our global contact database of GSUN members. Expand your reach, build meaningful relationships, and unlock opportunities for collaboration worldwide.
Shape innovation in sport.
Join a community of forward-thinkers who aggregate sport-related research and expertise driving solutions to timely, complex issues.
Access exclusive collaboration opportunities.
Connect with a network of innovators and industry leaders ready to share ideas and resources. Participate in events, webinars, and thought leadership series and establish research and exchange partnerships.
What Members Say
Joining has opened up invaluable opportunities for collaboration.
Monet Goode
GSUN membership has connected my research with global experts across disciplines. These collaborations have enriched my work and expanded its real-world applications.
Channing Lee
Through GSUN, I found global partners who share my vision.
Keith Finley

Membership Opportunities
External Stakeholder Advisory Board
Influence and Insight
Eligibility: Influential non-academic parties
Application: Invited by Leadership Council
Term: 3 years
Provide useful insights which help the network address real world issues
Participate in annual summit, webinars and thought leader series
Newsletter contributions
Associate Member
Individual Engagement
$50/year
(included in Summit registration)
Eligibility: Individual academic and external stakeholders attending the Summit
Application: Submit registration form below
Term: 1 year
Summit attendees automatically enrolled
Monthly newsletter
Online seminar access
Contact database access
Congress Member (Extraordinary)
Empowering Developing Nations
$300/year
Eligibility: Universities in CECO-defined developing countries
Application: By application; subject to approval
Term: 1 year
Exclusive Congress networking opportunities
Opportunity to lead webinars
Newsletter contributions
Online webinar, thought leadership series, and contact database access
Preferred Summit presentation opportunities including leading a panel
Unlimited staff contact database access
Discounted Summit rate for extra delegates
Unlimited staff access for virtual events
Opportunity to be invited to join Leadership Council
Eligibility to apply for travel grants
Congress Member Institutions
Connect, Collaborate, Contribute
$3,000/year
Eligibility: Academic Institutions that are Congress Members
Application: By Invitation; subject to approval
Term: 3 years, renewable
2 Summit registrations
Exclusive Congress networking opportunities
Opportunity to lead webinars
Newsletter contributions
Online webinar, thought leadership series, and contact database access
Preferred Summit presentation opportunities including leading a panel
Unlimited staff contact database access
Discounted Summit rates for additional delegates
Unlimited staff access to virtual events
Opportunity to be invited to join Leadership Council
Leadership Council
Shape the Future of Global Sport Research
$10,000/year
Eligibility: Academic Institutions
Application: By application; subject to approval
Term: 1 year
All Congress Member benefits
Influence GSUN’s strategic direction
Exclusive council networking, events and opportunities
Host future summits and events
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FAQs
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GSUN is a collective of universities from around the world that aggregates sport-related research and expertise from every discipline. We harness that knowledge to both analyze sport itself and harness the enormous potential of sport to address timely, complex problems in human performance, product engineering and innovation, exercise and wellness, inclusion, and other societal issues surrounding sport.
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Congress members are academics at the institutional level. All staff at that institution have access to benefits and the institution receives 2 complimentary summit registrations.
Associate members are individual members from academic and non-academic institutions. This level is included with summit registration.
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GSUN governance indicates that there can be up to 14 council members representing diverse areas of the world. Membership is by application following invitation from the council. Feel free to express interest to council executives or through the contact form on the website.
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Membership is by application following invitation from the council. Please express interest to council executives or through the contact form on the website.

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