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This article explores how community sport teams intentionally strive to improve members’ emotional wellbeing through evaluative practices. The findings reveal that evaluative systems sustainability relies on democratic, deliberate, and participative processes prioritizing connection and relationship building across organizational ecosystems. Systems must be delivered in alignment with participants’ individual and collective needs. Within, evaluation practices require holistic approaches invol...

In the present day, organised forms of football can easily be found in communities throughout Scotland. For the rugby and association codes, visitor attractions at Hampden Park and Murrayfield Stadium help to tell the story of how the modern versions of each sport were developed in Scotland, from the early international matches of the 1870s into the billion pound industry of the twenty-first century. What is less well known, is the history of organised football in Scotland decades before the...

Mycorrhizal symbioses influence woody species diversity, but whether this association shifts with forest stand development remains underexplored. Using forest inventory data across subtropical and tropical forests in Taiwan, we found that woody species diversity was lower in ectomycorrhizal (EM)-dominated than in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM)-dominated forests, while forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies supported the highest woody species diversity. However, these associations were stronge...

This paper examines how the UK state has responded to Scottish demands for a second independence referendum, treating those demands as constitutional contestation and asking whether the state has converted that contestation into deliberative engagement or managed it through deferral, denial, and delegitimisation. Drawing on a longitudinal analysis of ministerial discourse between 2016 and 2026, the paper traces how successive UK Governments – Conservative and Labour – have justified their con...