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Exciting Round Table with Profs Bull, Okely, Schipperijn, Stamatakis & Dr Milton - ProPASS Event

Dr Karen Milton & Prof Fiona Bull & Prof Anthony Okely & Prof Jasper Schipperijn & Prof Emmanuel Stamatakis
Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022, 
Setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices data.
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.

How to Measure Sleep? Dr Jesse Cook (Pt2)

Jesse Cook is a PhD candidate in the Dr. David Plante Sleep Research Laboratory and studies biological, psychological and sociological factors that connect with unexplained excessive sleepiness.
He was first drawn to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research through the connection between sleep health and AD, and the prevention, detection and potential treatment implications of this connection.
Cook believes sleep health disparities across underrepresented groups may help explain disproportionate risk of AD. He is currently completing his dissertation, and intends to pursue a career in behavioral sleep medicine as a clinical psychologist.
 
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Tech News: Wearables for Clinical Use - Dr Olli Tikkanen

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Sport in Later Life: Countercultural or the New Ideal? Prof. Rylee Dionigi - Meaningful Sport Series

Opportunities for involvement in sports in later life have increased significantly and many sports around the globe have competitions and categories for Masters/Veteran athletes. At the same time, researchers have explored the experiences and meanings of being an older athlete, showing tensions in individual experiences as well as in shifting social discourse surrounding sport and ageing. We have shifted from ageing-as-decline to active ageing discourses, which provide different imagination of growing old. But are there also some darker sides in the shift towards more positive visions of ageing?
Rylee Dionigi is a professor in of Sport and Exercise Science at Charles Sturt University with expertise in qualitative research as well as sociology of active living and ageing. She has studied Masters sports for over 20 years and shared her insights from this extensive work in the podcast.
Questions explored in the conversation include: How did the cultural discourses shift in the last 20 years? Have athletes' experiences and meanings of sport also shifted at the same time? What are the different pathways to Masters sport and do they map into different relationships with sport? Why are active ageing discourses also potentially problematic?
Interested? You can read more in Prof. Dionigi's works:
Dionigi, R. A. (2015). Pathways to masters sport: Sharing stories from sport 'continuers','rekindlers' and 'late bloomers' In Physical activity and sport in later life (pp. 54-68). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
 
Dionigi, R. A. (2016). The Competitive Older Athlete. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 32(1), 55-62.
 
Dionigi, R. A. (2017). I would rather die than live sedentary. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 33(3), 156-161.
 
Dionigi, R. A. (2021). From fascination to revelation: my research journey with older MastersVeteran athletes. In Research Handbook on Sports and Society (pp. 244-259). Edward Elgar Publishing.
 
Dionigi, R. A., & Gard, M. (2018). Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan Critical Perspectives. Springer.
 
Gard, M., Dionigi, R. A., Horton, S., Baker, J., Weir, P., & Dionigi, C. (2017). The normalization of sport for older people?. Annals of leisure research, 20(3), 253-272.

The CONSTANCES cohort | Singapore Population Health Studies - ProPASS Event - Drs Goldberg & Riemenschneider

Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022
- The CONSTANCES cohort, a research infrastructure for epidemiology- Dr Marcel Goldberg
- Singapore Population Health Studies- Prof Falk Muller Riemenschneider
Setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices data.
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.

What is Sleep? Dr Jesse Cook (Pt1)

Jesse Cook is a PhD candidate in the Dr. David Plante Sleep Research Laboratory and studies biological, psychological and sociological factors that connect with unexplained excessive sleepiness.
He was first drawn to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research through the connection between sleep health and AD, and the prevention, detection and potential treatment implications of this connection.
Cook believes sleep health disparities across underrepresented groups may help explain disproportionate risk of AD. He is currently completing his dissertation, and intends to pursue a career in behavioral sleep medicine as a clinical psychologist.
 
This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
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Tech News: Measurement of SB and PA in Children and Adolescents - Dr Olli Tikkanen

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https://sleepmeasurements.fibion.com
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Caring for Coaches - Dr Colum Cronin (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

Care research in sport coaching has expanded in the last few years, but so far, most studies have explored care for athletes. However, also coaches face pressures in their work and benefit from caring relationships. Too often, coaches experience low levels of well-being, lack of work-life balance, lack of support, and disengage from coaching.
In this second part of our conversation, Dr Colum Cronin gives an update on a new research project he is conducting with his colleagues on care for coaches. While the project is on-going, we get to hear some initial findings as well as Colum's thoughts on what might be some avenues for supporting the development of caring relationships in the world of sport coaching.
Towards the end of the episode, we discuss the forthcoming Special Issue on care in coaching in Sport Coaching Review. Articles within the SI, published ahead of print, include Breaking through? Exploring care in the early life of elite Swedish athletes (Kjær et al. 2022) and “It looks like he cares, but he doesn’t.”: athletes’ experiences of “good” and “bad” care in women’s football (Lewis et al., 2022). Updates on the SI and the journal can be found on Twitter @SportsCoachingR 
Dr Colum Cronin is Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education at Liverpool John Moores University and serves as an associate editor for Sports Coaching Review. He is the co-editor of the book Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases (together with Kathleen Armour).
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Found the episode interesting? Our previous conversation focused on care in coaching can be accessed here.
 

Generating Domain-Specific Physical Activity Data Using Accelerometers and GPS - ProPASS Event - Prof Jasper Schipperijn

Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022
Generating domain-specific physical activity data using accelerometers and GPS- Prof Jasper Schipperijn
Setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices data.
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.
 
 

Children’s Physical Activity Research Design Ideas You Can Steal! - Jaakko Alasaarela (Pt2)

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3 Innovations to Measure Sleep and Circadian Rhythm - Dr Olli Tikkanen

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This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
Learn more about Fibion: fibion.com/research
https://sleepmeasurements.fibion.com
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Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely -
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Care in Sport Coaching: New Developments - Dr Colum Cronin (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Caring relationships in sport coaching have moral and pedagogical value. Researchers have increasingly centralised this idea and explored how coaches develop caring relationships. In this episode, Dr Colum Cronin gives an update on how caring research in coaching has evolved in the last couple of years. Following up on Colum's earlier visit in the podcast, we focus on recent updates in sport coaching research including (1) the new focus on athletes' perspectives on caring and (2) caring for coaches. We also discuss key theoretical ideas on caring that have informed research in the sport domain.
Dr Colum Cronin is Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education at Liverpool John Moores University and serves as an associate editor for Sports Coaching Review. He is the co-editor of the book Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases (together with Kathleen Armour).
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Found the episode interesting? Our previous conversation focused on care in coaching can be accessed here.
Also, keep an eye on the forthcoming Special Issue on care in coaching in Sport Coaching Review. Articles within the SI, published ahead of print, include Breaking through? Exploring care in the early life of elite Swedish athletes (Kjær et al. 2022) and “It looks like he cares, but he doesn’t.”: athletes’ experiences of “good” and “bad” care in women’s football (Lewis et al., 2022).
 

From Device Data to Guidelines to Population Behaviour Change - ProPASS Event - Prof Karen Milton

Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022 
From device data to guidelines to population behaviour change- Dr Karen Milton
Setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices data.
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.

Current State and Future: Role of Physical Activity in Public Health - Prof. Russell Pate (Pt2)

Current State and Future: Role of Physical Activity in Public Health - Prof Russell Pate (Pt2)
Dr. Pate is Professor in the Department of Exercise Science in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He has held several administrative positions including Chair, Department of Exercise Science; Associate Dean for Research, Arnold School of Public Health; and Vice Provost for Health Sciences.
Dr. Pate is an exercise physiologist with interests in physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implications of physical activity. His research has been supported by NIH, CDC, the American Heart Association, and several private foundations and corporations.
He coordinated the effort that led to the development of the recommendation on Physical Activity and Public Health of the CDC and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) (1995).
He served on the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, and an Institute of Medicine panel that developed guidelines on prevention of childhood obesity. He currently serves as Chair of the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance. In 2012, he received the Honor Award from the ACSM.
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Insights Coaching Youth | Doing an Internship in a Startup/Scaleup - MSc Jaakko Alasaarela (Pt1) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint

 
 
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Developing a more Meaningful Future for PE - Lee Sullivan (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

In this second part of our conversation with Lee Sullivan, we explore what a more inclusive and meaningful future of PE could look like. If physical education is in crisis, how can we get out of that crisis? What seem to be the most promising developments that can be used to transform practice?
Lee Sullivan the Head of PE at Upton Court Grammar School. He is the author of Physical Education in Crisis?: Leading a Much-Needed Change in Physical Education and co-author of the Concept Curriculum. You can follow Lee on Twitter @Lee_Sullivan85. 
Questions explored in this second part of the podcast include: 
- What is physical literacy and how can it inform PE?
- What is concept curriculum? 
- Life skills: do they have a place in PE?
- Developing a professional philosophy in PE: finding valuable resources
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Resources mentioned in this episode include:
PE Scholar
Drowning in the Shallow (blog)
Meaningful PE (blog)
Found the episode interesting? Previous conversations around the same theme include R. Scott Kretchmar on the Pursuit of Modest Competence and Dr Stephanie Beni on Implementing Meaningful Physical Education.

SurPASS: Automating Device-Based Measurement in Cohort Studies - ProPASS Event - Prof Holtermann & Dr Gupta

SurPASS: Automating device-based measurement in cohort study research- Prof Andreas Holtermann & Dr Nidhi Gupta
Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022
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SurPASS is a sister project to ProPASS. SurPASS aims to develop and evaluate an e-system for measuring daily physical behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviours, and sleep) at work and non-work time of working adults.
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The vision of the SurPASS project is to develop a system for measuring physical behaviours in large adult populations that:
accurately measures physical behaviours
has low participant burden (e.g. easy to use and high hygiene)
has low administrative burden (e.g. cheap in cost, automated analytics, low logistic burden, high data security, low expertise demands)
can be used in large-scale surveillances and cohorts
​can be used at national and international levels.
 
The system will consist of:
A SENS motion® patch-based tri-axial sensor for long-term monitoring of physical behaviours to be attached to the thigh. Such device can be sent to participants via postal mail and participants can attach the sensor themselves. The device can measure and store data for several weeks, and encrypt and transmit data to a secured server.
An app on participants' smartphone to initialise the measurements, provide a user guide, automatically upload data to a secured server, and provide visual feedback on the physical behaviours to the participants after the measurement period.
A web application for administrators for registering participants, managing sensors, and viewing and exporting data.
A secured server based on SENS motion® technology for automatically
importing encrypted data from a sensor (via app), decrypting it and storing it regularly
cleaning and analysing sensor data based on previously validated algorithms to identify physical behaviours.
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Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.

Rationale behind Selection of System for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Measurements - Prof Ashokan Arumugam (Pt2)

Ashokan Arumugam is an Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy at the College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
He is an Orthopedic Manual Physiotherapist with a special interest in physical activity analysis in sedentary and diseased populations, biomechanical analyses of the lower limbs, and neuroplastic changes in individuals with and without musculoskeletal ligament injuries.
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This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
Learn more about Fibion: fibion.com/research
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Is Physical Education in Crisis? Lee Sullivan (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

This episode continues exploring the contested role and meanings of physical education. Can we claim that physical education is in crisis? Does it serve only few of the children while marginalising others? If this is the case, what would a more meaningful future look like?
I am delighted to explore these questions with Lee Sullivan. Lee is the Head of PE at Upton Court Grammar School. He is the author of Physical Education in Crisis?: Leading a Much-Needed Change in Physical Education and co-author of the Concept Curriculum. You can follow Lee on Twitter @Lee_Sullivan85. 
Questions explored in this podcast include: 
- What are the problems with traditional ways of delivering PE?
- Does sport (still) have some role in PE?
- How can we deliver meaningful competition in PE?
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Found the episode interesting? Previous conversations around the same theme include R. Scott Kretchmar on the Pursuit of Modest Competence and Dr Stephanie Beni on Implementing Meaningful Physical Education.
 

Nijmegen Exercise Study | The E3N-E4N cohort - ProPASS Event - Drs Esmee Bakker & Gianluca Severi

Audio of the ProPASS' 4th Annual Meeting 27-28 April 2022,
Nijmegen Exercise Study-Dr. Esmee Bakker
The E3N-E4N cohort-Dr. Gianluca Severi
Setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices data.
Physical Activity Researcher Podcast, ProPASS, and ISPAH collaborate to be able to bring you the events and webinars content in easy-to-consume audio format to your favourite podcast app.
The video recording is now available the Members Area of the ISPAH Website.

Physical Activity with Osteoarthritis - Prof. David Hunter (Pt2)

Physical Activity with Osteoarthritis - Prof David Hunter (Pt2)
Professor Hunter is a rheumatology clinician researcher whose main research focus has been clinical and translational research in osteoarthritis (OA). He is the Florance and Cope Chair of Rheumatology and Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney and the Royal North Shore Hospital.
He is ranked as the worlds leading expert in osteoarthritis on Expertscape.com since 2014. He is on the editorial board for Arthritis and Rheumatology, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Arthritis Care and Research and part of the review committee for OA for the American College of Rheumatology, EULAR and OARSI scientific meetings.
Dr Hunter has over 500 peer reviewed publications in international journals, numerous book chapters, is the section editor for UpToDate Osteoarthritis and has co-authored a number of books, including books on self management strategies for the lay public.
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This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
Learn more about Fibion: fibion.com/research
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Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely -
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