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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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