April 2022
Should the women’s bridge world championships continue?
If the women-only game both helps and hinders women’s progression in the card game bridge, should we consider the [...]
February 2022
Building a More Inclusive Community
Gender issues and inequalities within the bridge community are widely known and acknowledged but not by everyone. In particular, [...]
January 2022
IBPA Deals Out Three Awards to Scots
Team Scotland has been awarded the Alan Truscott Memorial Award by the International Bridge Press Association (IBPA). This prestigious [...]
December 2021
Pro Bridge: ‘Not a Proper Job’?
We are delighted that BAMSA’s fourth academic paper has recently been published about professional bridge. The peer reviewed journal [...]
November 2021
Pleasures & Pressures of Bridge
BAMSA’s third academic paper has recently been published about some of the rewards and costs of playing the mindsport [...]
September 2021
Tackling loneliness and MSP visit
A local member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) has heard how experts at the University of Stirling are tackling the [...]
July 2021
BAMSA Conference
More than 500 delegates from 62 countries attended the 4th international bridge conference. The University of Stirling and [...]
June 2021
BAMSA Conference 2021
4th International Bridge Conference Bridging Academia, Policy and Practice Monday 28 June - Thursday 1 July 2021 (online) Programme Programme (pdf) [...]
May 2021
ACES & KNAVES: Different takes
ACES & KNAVES is an exhilarating 55-minute documentary of the highs and lows of bridge told by those closest [...]
ACES & KNAVES film
Screening and conversation with filmmaker Jackie Paré, bridge legend Zia Mahmood, and BAMSA founder Samantha Punch ACES & [...]
International conference
Professor Martin Seligman is the keynote speaker at BAMSA’s virtual conference in June. All aspects of bridge (the good, [...]
Bridge at the Top
Bridge at the Top: Behind the Screens will be launched at the BAMSA conference on 28 June. The book [...]
April 2021
BAMSA website goes live
The BAMSA website is up and running after a development phase in early 2021. The costs of the [...]
March 2021
BAMSA launches webinar series
BAMSA’s inaugural webinar focused on the work of Professor David Scott of Texas A&M University. [...]
BAMSA Spring Webinar 2021
The Impact of Bridge Research on a Career in Leisure Studies Professor David Scott (Recreation, Parks and [...]
January 2021
‘Playing your life’
A second academic article generated by BAMSA has been published. The paper is titled ‘Playing your Life: Developing [...]
December 2020
The story of a project
Professor Samantha Punch tells the BAMSA story It all began in 2013 when I decided to interview my [...]
What’s in a name?
The BAMSA team describe the evolution of the project title. In early 2019, the sociology of bridge researchers [...]
November 2020
MindSport Officer appointed
Mindsport as an emerging academic discipline took a step forward in November 2020 with the appointment of the UK’s [...]
BAMSA supporter translates research into Chinese
Thanks to bridge enthusiast Jianping Zhu, Individual Wellbeing and Bridge: An Empirical Analysis is now available in Chinese. The [...]
BAMSA paper is an academic milestone
National and international bridge organisations have warmly welcomed the first sociology of bridge paper to be published in a [...]