Sport staff of the University of Chichester have spent their summer months travelling around the world to present their research work at national and international conferences.
The variety in contributions reflects the broad expertise of University staff in Sport, Exercise and Health topics:
Dr Elizabeth Pike, acting Head of Sport Development and Management, has been an invited keynote speaker at the International Sport Science Congressin South Korea and the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales (Latin American Society for the Sociology of Sport) in Venezuela. Earlier in the summer, Dr Pike was invited to speak at an International Symposium on Elite Child Athlete Welfare in the UK and was invited symposium speaker at the European College of Sport Science in Turkey.
In October, she will give a keynote at the Taiwan Society for the Sociology of Sport inTaipei, and in November, she is coordinating a symposium on physical activity and ageing at the North American Sociology of Sport Society in California. The presentations focus on Dr Pike's research into thebenefits offered bysports andexercise for the increasing populations of older people around the globe. This work includes a local project that Dr Pike is leading, funded by the University in partnership with West Sussex County Council, which is investigating the improved provision of active leisure services in the Chichester region.
Dr Iain Greenlees, Reader in Sport Psychology, has been invited to deliver a keynote lecture in November on the future of Applied Sport Psychology research at the 11th International Sport Sciences Congress in Turkey. This invitation was very timely because in May this year, Iain took over as editor of the Sport and Exercise Psychology Review, the official journal of the British Psychological Society's Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology. He has also been invited to join the editorial board of the new online journal of sport psychology, Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology.
Dr Julia Potter and Dr Suzie Everley, both Senior Lecturers in Physical Education, had poster presentations at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, Sweden. Julia's poster was entitled ‘Health Concepts in Action' and Suzie's ‘Children's Perceptions of and Engagement in Physical Activity - Meaning and Action'. Suzie's abstract was selected to compete for the Best Poster Prize. Julia and Suzie have been involved in a unique project which looks at young children's own perception and attitudes towards physical activity.
Dr Marcus Smith, Principal Lecturer and Field Leader in Exercise Physiology, was invited speaker at the international Games for Health conference in Boston, USA, in May May 2010 to talk about the health benefits of drumming. He presented work from the Clem Burke Drumming Project which was officially launched in 2008.
Dr Neal Smith, Field leader in Biomechanics and Research Methods, and Kathleen Shorter (postgraduate research student) travelled to North Michigan University in Marquette for the International Society of Biomechanics annual conference.Two papers were presented: one focussing on Kathleen's area into shoulder injuries in cricket bowling, and another relating to the Biomechanics research cluster on Strength and Conditioning.Kathleen then travelled to Minneapolis and presented work concerning the use of acromion marker clusters for the reconstruction of shoulder joint kinematics at the 8th meeting of the International Shoulder Group.
Dr Mark Willems, Reader in Exercise Physiology, was awarded the International Conference Grant from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences to present work on downhill walking in older adults at the European College of Sports Sciences in Turkey. As a fellow of the European College of Sport Sciences, he was also invited chair for oral and poster presentations at this conference. Mark contributed as invited speaker to a symposium on Muscle Injury at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Singapore and obtained funding from Maximuscle Ltd to present a poster on supplementation during resistance training at the annual conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences in Scotland.
Dr Mike Lauder, Head of the Sport and Exercise Sciences Department, said: “It's important to see the research work of staff affiliated with the recently established Chichester Centre of Applied Sport and Exercise Sciences to be recognised and shared with academic peers. The centre aims to enhance and strengthen the ongoing research activity in areas ranging from Health Promotion, Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology, Applied Exercise Physiology and Applied Sport Biomechanics and the global contributions of the Sport staff on the conference circuit this year constitute an essential element of the research culture of our University.”
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