Physical Activity Researcher

In Pursuit of Modest Competence - Prof. R. Scott Kretchmar (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Meaningful movement experiences are a key interest to physical educators and others seeking to understand our movement culture practices. But how meaningfulness might arise is a difficult question. From the pursuit of excellence or the pursuit of modest competence in our sporting activities? If sport is "mere" hobby, can it still be very meaningful? What about the physical education context - which strategies seem promising for facilitating meaningful experiences? What is the role of challenging and tough experiences? These questions are at the heart of our conversation with Professor Scott Kretchmar, one of the leading philosophers of sport. 
R. Scott Kretchmar is a Professor Emeritus of exercise and sport science at Penn State University, Pennsylvania. His work has explored a range of topics, including in the area of values and meaning in physical activity and ethics of sport.
Prof. Kretchmar's works discussed in this episode include:
Sport as a (mere) hobby: in defense of 'the gentle pursuit of a modest competence'
Moving and being moved: Implications for practice
Movement subcultures: Sites for meaning

Accelerometer Harmonisation Methods (Pt1) - ProPASS Webinar - Prof. Ulf Ekelund and Dr Jakob Tarp

Accelerometer Harmonisation Methods (Pt1) - ProPASS Webinar - Prof. Ulf Ekelund and Dr Jakob Tarp
 
Part 1. This is audio from ProPASS ECR network webinar. In the third webinar (2nd December) we will hear from Prof. Ulf Ekelund and Dr Jakob Tarp on harmonisation methods. Pooling individual participant data from several research projects may not always be feasible. This talk will cover examples of meta-analyses/data harmonizations performed without transfer of original data.
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The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS)
ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform of cohorts using thigh-worn accelerometry to explore the effects of physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are:
to establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes;
to develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling data of existing such studies;
to develop methods for collecting data for future studies (prospective harmonization);
The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep. 

Lessons Learned from Individual Systematic Review - Dr Pieter Coenen (Pt2)

In 2009 Pieter Coenen obtained my MSc degree at the faculty of human movement sciences (VU University, Amsterdam) after which Pieter Coenen started his PhD program. In his PhD project he studied the aetiology of musculoskeletal pain in workers, which ultimately resulted in his thesis ‘On the origin of back pain’. In the meantime, he successfully finalized his epidemiological education, granting him the official title of ‘Epidemiologist’. He currently hold a post-doctoral research position at the department of Public and Occupational Health (EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center), which he combine with and adjunct research position at Curtin University (Perth, Australia).
From 2014 to 2016, he has been working as post-doctoral researcher at Curtin University (Perth, Australia). In this period, he has expanded my knowledge on human physical (in)activity, prevention and management of musculoskeletal pain and epidemiological research methodologies.His research focus is on the promotion of healthy work environments, in particular from the perspective of physical (in)activity and workload. His research includes epidemiological studies on the health consequences of work-related biomechanical exposure and physical (in)activity at work, development of risk assessment tools for (occupational) safety and health, work-site interventions for healthy work environments and systematic reviews on health effects of work-related factors and interventions.
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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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How to Health Coach Better? MSc Jason Gootman (Pt2) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

How to Health Coach Better? MSc Jason Gootman (Pt2) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series
Jason is a Mayo Clinic certified wellness coach; he has a Master´s degree in exercise physiology and a certification in sports nutrition and strength and conditioning.
How to coach someone who wants to improve their biometrics like blood-sugar levels, blood pressure, and blood-cholesterol levels and on top of that improve their overall well-being via lifestyle improvements.
Within that topic we are going to touch on the role of automatic affective evaluations and a reflective attitude in motivation to exercise and physical activity.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Using Backcasting to Develop a Sustainable Vision of Sport – Dr Alexandra Köves and Attila Szathmári (Pt2) – Meaningful Sport Series

Backcasting methodology starts from the future. What kind of sport do we want to have in 2050? What are the steps we need to take to get there? In this second part of our conversation with Alexandra Köves and Attila Szathmári, we explore degrowth thinking in the world of sport and what kind of vision masters students in sports economics developed for the future of sport in a backcasting project.
Our conversation mainly draws on the guests' recent work, co-authored with Orsolya Herr, "The vision of sustainable sport in a backcasting research" (Economy & Society, 2021).
Dr Alexandra Köves is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Business Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest. She is an ecological economist researching Degrowth, sustainable employment and sustainable business. Her other research projects involving backcasting include Backcasting for sustainable employment: a Hungarian experience and Inner drives: Is the future of marketing communications more sustainable when using backcasting? She is also hosting the podcast Economics for Rebels.
Attila Szathmári is a PhD candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Business Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest and a Commentator on Eurosport. His work has explored sustainability, (elite) sport and Degrowth perspectives. His other studies on sport and sustainability include Who cares about Gladiators? An elite-sport-based concept of Sustainable Sport and 'I wouldn't do anything differently... Although I won't let my child go in that direction': Successful Hungarian Olympians' understandings and experiences at the close of elite sport careers.
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find the related episodes with Gunnar Breivik and Sigmund Loland interesting. 

Implementation of Thigh Worn Accelerometry (Pt2) - Propass Webinar - Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer

Implementation of Thigh Worn Accelerometry (Pt2) - Propass Webinar - Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer
Part 2. This is audio from ProPASS ECR network webinar. In the second webinar (24th November) we will hear from Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer on the implementation of thigh worn accelerometry in the 1970 British Cohort Study. In 2016 a biomedical sweep of the 1970 British Cohort study included 7 day thigh worn accelerometry measures. Matt and Mark's talk will focus on the implementation of the accelerometry data collection.
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The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS)
ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform of cohorts using thigh-worn accelerometry to explore the effects of physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are:
to establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes;
to develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling data of existing such studies;
to develop methods for collecting data for future studies (prospective harmonization);
The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep.

Childhood Obesity Starts before Birth and Many Other Interesting Findings Related to Obesity - Prof. Peter Katzmarzyk (Pt2)

Dr. Katzmarzyk is Professor and Associate Executive Director for Population and Public Health Sciences at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center where he holds the Marie Edana Corcoran Endowed Chair in Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes. Dr. Katzmarzyk is an internationally recognized leader in the field of physical activity and obesity, with a special emphasis on pediatrics and ethnic health disparities. He has over two decades of experience in conducting large clinical and population-based studies in children and adults.
He has published his research in more than 580 scholarly journals and books, and has delivered over 210 invited lectures in 16 countries. In addition to his research, Dr. Katzmarzyk plays a leading role in national health advocacy initiatives. He chairs the Research Advisory Committee for the U.S. Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth for the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance. He also recently served on the 2018 U.S. Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization Guideline Development Group for the WHO 2020 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Youth, Adults and Older Adults. In 2019 and 2020, Dr. Katzmarzyk was recognized as a highly cited researcher by the Web of Science.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

How to Coach for Better Biometrics? Health Coach Jason Gootman (Pt1) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

How to Coach for Better Biometrics? Health Coach Jason Gootman (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series
Jason is a Mayo Clinic certified wellness coach; he has a Master´s degree in exercise physiology and a certification in sports nutrition and strength and conditioning.
How to coach someone who wants to improve their biometrics like blood-sugar levels, blood pressure, and blood-cholesterol levels and on top of that improve their overall well-being via lifestyle improvements.
Within that topic we are going to touch on the role of automatic affective evaluations and a reflective attitude in motivation to exercise and physical activity.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

What could a Degrowth Vision of Sport Look Like? Dr Alexandra Köves & Attila Szathmári (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Degrowth perspectives call for a serious rethinking of various areas of our social life and have been used in many domains, yet sport has not been one of them. What does degrowth imply for our recreational sporting activities or the sporting mega-events? What are we willing to give up and what can we keep in our sport cultures, when we are trying to stay within planetary boundaries? Do we even need to rethink the more fundamental meaning and value of sport in our lives and societies?
Alexandra Köves and Attila Szathmári have recently expanded the degrowth thinking into the world of sport. Our conversation mainly draws on their recent work, co-authored with Orsolya Herr, "The vision of sustainable sport in a backcasting research" (Economy & Society, 2021).
Dr Alexandra Köves is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Business Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest. She is an ecological economist researching Degrowth, sustainable employment and sustainable business. She is also hosting the podcast Economics for Rebels.
Attila Szathmári is a PhD candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Business Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest and a Commentator on Eurosport. His work has explored sustainability, (elite) sport and Degrowth perspectives.
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find the related episodes with Gunnar Breivik and Sigmund Loland interesting. 
 

Implementation of Thigh Worn Accelerometry (Pt1) - Propass Webinar - Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer

Implementation of Thigh Worn Accelerometry (Pt1) - Propass Webinar - Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer
 
This is audio from ProPASS ECR network webinar. In the second webinar (24th November) we will hear from Dr Matt Brown and Prof. Mark Hamer on the implementation of thigh worn accelerometry in the 1970 British Cohort Study. In 2016 a biomedical sweep of the 1970 British Cohort study included 7 day thigh worn accelerometry measures. Matt and Mark's talk will focus on the implementation of the accelerometry data collection.
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The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS)
ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform of cohorts using thigh-worn accelerometry to explore the effects of physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are:
to establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes;
to develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling data of existing such studies;
to develop methods for collecting data for future studies (prospective harmonization);
The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep. 

Don’t Train for Football but Type of Football - Prof. Magni Mohr (Pt1)

Prof Magni Mohr is currently Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands. He is running research projects in 20 different countries around the world. The topics include basic human physiology, exercise physiology, exercise is medicine, health promotion, fitness testing and training in elite team sports.
Magni has been active in communicating his research to the public through talks, interviews, popular science articles, seminars, public conferences, webinars etc. during nearly two decades, and has received the Faroese prize for public research presentation in 2018. In addition to this, he has won several international prizes for his research.
Magni is a former competitive football players and has worked for several large international football teams including Danish FC Brøndby, Italian Juventus FC, English Chelsea FC, Italian AC Milan, Chinese Shenzhen FC and Spanish Deportivo La Coruna, as well as the Danish and Cameroon National Teams. He is also a UEFA and FIFA instructor and teaches in pro-licence courses around the world.
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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

How to Train for the Requirements of Modern Football? Prof. Magni Mohr (Pt2) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint Series

Prof Magni Mohr is currently Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands. He is running research projects in 20 different countries around the world. The topics include basic human physiology, exercise physiology, exercise is medicine, health promotion, fitness testing and training in elite team sports.
Magni has been active in communicating his research to the public through talks, interviews, popular science articles, seminars, public conferences, webinars etc. during nearly two decades, and has received the Faroese prize for public research presentation in 2018. In addition to this, he has won several international prizes for his research.
Magni is a former competitive football players and has worked for several large international football teams including Danish FC Brøndby, Italian Juventus FC, English Chelsea FC, Italian AC Milan, Chinese Shenzhen FC and Spanish Deportivo La Coruna, as well as the Danish and Cameroon National Teams. He is also a UEFA and FIFA instructor and teaches in pro-licence courses around the world.
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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Spontaneous Ecologization through Everyday Walking? Prof. Sigmund Loland (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

In contemporary physical activity promotion, a quantitative and instrumental approach is the predominant perspective. From this view, physical activity needs to be promoted as a means to prevent various threats to physical and mental health produced by our sedentary lifestyles.
With Professor Sigmund Loland, we explore alternative framings that could help us imagine human movement, including mundane activities such as walking to work, in a different way. What if these activities, in addition to their well-documented health benefits, could help us develop a deeper sense of environmental interconnectedness, and the disposition to live and act in more sustainable ways?
Our conversation draws on Prof. Loland's recent article The poetics of everyday movement: Human movement ecology and urban walking.
Sigmund Loland is a professor of sport philosophy and ethics at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH), Oslo. He has published extensively in the area of sport philosophy and ethics, including questions about meaning in movement and ecological perspectives on sport.
Timestamps:
5:07 Why do good ideas come when you are walking?
6:45 What is Human Movement Ecology
15:30 Can we cultivate our openness to ecological experiences?
23:50 Why children need "a serious" introduction to movement activities... and the joys of gliding sports
28:20 Boycotting sporting mega-events: does it achieve its aims?
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find the episodes with Gunnar Breivik on deep ecological sport and with Simon Beames on outdoor education interesting.

Analytical Techniques in Processing Physical Activity Data (Pt2) - ProPASS webinar - Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova

Analytical Techniques in Processing Physical Activity Data (Pt2) - ProPASS webinar - Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova
 
Part 2. This is audio from ProPASS ECR network webinar. The theme of this first webinar series is measurement and in this first webinar of 3, we will hear from Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova on analytical techniques in processing physical activity data.
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The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS)
ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform of cohorts using thigh-worn accelerometry to explore the effects of physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are:
to establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes;
to develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling data of existing such studies;
to develop methods for collecting data for future studies (prospective harmonization);
The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep. 

Why Cadence of Steps is Interesting from Many Perspectives? Prof. Catrine Tudor-Locke (Pt1)

Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD, FACSM, FNAK is Professor and Dean of the College of Health and Human Services. Dean Tudor-Locke is a walking behavior researcher and a recognized world leader in objective physical activity assessment and promotion, specifically focused on pedometer or accelerometer-determined ambulatory activity captured as steps/day across the lifespan.
With funding from many public agencies and private foundations, Dean Tudor-Locke has established an internationally recognized research program on the promotion of walking throughout the lifespan and the development of objective measures of physical activity using wearable technology.
She has more than 280 articles published or in press in leading physical activity journals and has presented at many national and international conferences resulting in more than 150 abstracts or conference presentations.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Exercise Prescription: Jackhammer Needed to Change the Clinic Flow... Prof. Kathryn Schmitz (Pt2) - Practititioner‘s Viewpoint

Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, is the Associate Director of Population Sciences at Penn State University College of Medicine, and, jointly, serves as Full Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine.  Dr. Kathryn Schmitz is a leading researcher in exercise oncology - the use of exercise in cancer prevention, control and survivorship.
Her research extends from the role of physical activity in the prevention and etiology of obesity-related cancers to the usefulness of activity for rehabilitation and health promotion in cancer survivors of all cancers.
Dr. Schmitz serves on the expert panel for the YMCA/Livestrong Foundation Cancer Survivorship Collaborative, wrote the cancer survivorship section of the 2008 U.S. DHHS report of the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, served on the ad hoc committee that developed the ACSM Cancer Exercise Trainer certification, and is the lead author of the ACSM Roundtable on Exercise for Cancer Survivors, which published guidance for exercise testing and prescription for cancer survivors in July 2010.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Developing Ecological Awareness through Physical Activity - Prof. Sigmund Loland (Pt 1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Why is meaning central to movement cultures, and how does it relate to ecological awareness and sustainability? Are there certain meanings and values of sport that are problematic when we are trying to move towards more sustainable movement cultures? Can we find potential for ecologization also in competitive and elite sport, which have been often considered with suspicion by eco-philosophers?
Sigmund Loland is a professor of sport philosophy and ethics at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH), Oslo. He has published extensively in the area of sport philosophy and ethics, including questions about meaning in movement and ecological perspectives on sport.
Prof. Loland's works discussed in the episode include Morality, Medicine, and Meaning: Toward an Integrated Justification of Physical Education, Outline of an Ecosophy of Sport, and Record Sports: An Ecological Critique and a Reconstruction.
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Time Stamps
3:00 Why is Physical Education taught in schools?
5:05 Morality, Medicine and Meaning as three justifications of PE
10:20 Can the "Meaning perspective" on PE and PA cover non-anthropocentric perspectives?
17:10 Eco-philosophy and competitive sport: is there a clash?
20:30 Why are record sports unsustainable?
26:40 What is the internal problem of sport in relation to sustainability?
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find the episodes with Gunnar Breivik on deep ecological sport and with Simon Beames on outdoor education interesting.

Analytical Techniques in Processing Physical Activity Data (Pt1) - ProPASS webinar - Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova

Analytical Techniques in Processing Physical Activity Data (Pt1) - ProPASS webinar - Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova
 
This is audio from ProPASS ECR network webinar. The theme of this first webinar series is measurement and in this first webinar of 3, we will hear from Dr Alex Rowlands and Dr Tatiana Plekhanova on analytical techniques in processing physical activity data.
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The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS)
ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform of cohorts using thigh-worn accelerometry to explore the effects of physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are:
to establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes;
to develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling data of existing such studies;
to develop methods for collecting data for future studies (prospective harmonization);
The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep. 

”Rest is Best” - Paradigm Shifts in Physical Activity Guidance for Patients - Prof. Kathryn Schmitz (Pt1)

Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, is the Associate Director of Population Sciences at Penn State University College of Medicine, and, jointly, serves as Full Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine.  Dr. Kathryn Schmitz is a leading researcher in exercise oncology - the use of exercise in cancer prevention, control and survivorship.
Her research extends from the role of physical activity in the prevention and etiology of obesity-related cancers to the usefulness of activity for rehabilitation and health promotion in cancer survivors of all cancers.
Dr. Schmitz serves on the expert panel for the YMCA/Livestrong Foundation Cancer Survivorship Collaborative, wrote the cancer survivorship section of the 2008 U.S. DHHS report of the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, served on the ad hoc committee that developed the ACSM Cancer Exercise Trainer certification, and is the lead author of the ACSM Roundtable on Exercise for Cancer Survivors, which published guidance for exercise testing and prescription for cancer survivors in July 2010.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Complexities of Behaviour Change Interventions with Children - Dr Amy Creaser (Pt3) - Practitioner’s Viewpoint

Amy has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Leeds, who undertook a work placement year at BiB in 2017, working on the ‘Primary School Years’.Amy is currently a PhD Student, working with the JU:MP team and Loughborough University.
Her PhD will focus on developing and implementing an intervention to increase physical activity in children and adolescents, using wearable activity trackers (such as Fitbits). Her PhD will take a mixed-methods approach (qualitative and quantitative methods) to investigate intervention impact and assess feasibility and acceptability of the intervention within the community.
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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 -
Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/

Reimagining Life Skills through Postqualitative Inquiry - Dr Martin Camiré (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

Life skills has been an important concept for sport researchers interested in understanding the potential of sport to foster positive youth development. In this second part of our conversation with Dr Martin Camiré, we explore why it is necessary to rethink some of the assumptions associated with life skills, and how postqualitative inquiry can help us extend our understanding of life skills and learning in sport more broadly. We also discuss the potential of 'postsport' physical cultures to foster different kind of learning that might not always be 'positive' but still important for becoming who we are. 
Our conversation draws on Martin's recent article in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health titled A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry.
Dr Martin Camiré is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa whose work has made a substantial contribution to our knowledge base on sport-based positive youth development and life skills. His recent work has focused on reimagining life skills through a social justice lens, as well as exploring the concept through postqualitative inquiry.
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Timestamps:
2:00 Engaging in risky research
7:40 Precarious work in academia
9:45 Using postqualitative inquiry to rethink life skills
10:35 Going beyond the discursive
13:00 Why the notion of life skill transfer needs to be abandoned
15:35 You cannot hit the same tennis shot twice
20:20 Learning as becoming
25:30 Imagining life skills through a social justice lens
31:45 Is life skills still a useful concept or should we move on to something else?
38:55 Learning and becoming in postsport physical cultures
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Liked this episode? You might also find the episode with Greg Dryer interesting.