Physical Activity Researcher

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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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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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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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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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. 
 

Healthy Aging: Creation and Implementation of Guidelines - Prof. Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko (Pt1)

Prof. Wojtek Chodzko Zajko is the Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Endowed Professor of Applied Health Sciences and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois. In his role as Dean of the Graduate College, Chodzko-Zajko leads campus efforts in setting policies, defining standards, and enabling excellence in graduate programs, graduate research, and graduate student life. With graduate programs in more than 100 disciplinary areas, the Graduate College at the University of Illinois fosters a vibrant campus community of scholars.
In his professional life, Chodzko Zajko remains active in the dissemination of information about healthy aging through his work on several major professional advisory boards.  He served on the World Health Organization committee that developed the WHO Guidelines for Physical Activity among Older Persons. Chodzko-Zajko was the Principal Investigator for a series of projects charged with developing a national strategy for promoting healthy aging in the USA. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the AAU Association of Graduate Schools and on the Board of Directors of the GRE. Chodzko-Zajko was the founding Editor of the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity from 1992-2002.  He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Exercise and is a Past-President of the American Kinesiology Association. Prior to assuming his current position, Chodzko-Zajko served for many years as the head of the department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
 
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Rethinking Life Skills in Sport - Dr Martin Camiré (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

The idea that sport contributes to positive youth development and helps to develop life skills has a prominent role in our societies and the research discourse in sport psychology. These ideas however, are not without critiques, based on conceptual and ethical arguments as well as empirical findings. Can we say that the research topic is in some sort of crisis? Do we need to rethink some of the ideas surrounding life skills, and where might we go from here?
This episode with Dr Martin Camiré explores the critiques of life skills and how Martin and his colleagues have recently made substantial efforts to destabilise the neoliberal assumptions and power dynamics associated with life skills. Our conversation draws on the recent article by Martin and his team titled Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens.  
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 explored life skills through postqualitative inquiry.
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Timestamps: 
7:22 Positive development is not an automatic outcome of sport participation
11:10 Are positive youth development interventions in sport achieving their goals?  
14:45 What's wrong with life skills in sport as we know them today?  
21:30 Reimagining life skills through a social justice lens
27:35 What else can we learn from sport in addition to life skills?        
30:35 Does research always need to have practical application? 
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Liked this episode? You might also find the episode with Greg Dryer interesting. 

How to Adapt Weight Loss Program for Low Health Literacy? Prof. Peter Katzmarzyk (Pt1)

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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2022 Will Start with a Bang! New Year Bonus episode

Are athlete development systems narrowing meaning(s) of sport? Dr Christian Thue Bjørndal (Pt2) - Meaningful Sport Series

Youth athletes quickly learn that they have to perform certain identities - as hardworking, dedicated, and always ready to train more - to maximise their chances of staying on the athlete development pathway and 'making it' to senior sport. What are the implications of the 'always more' culture on their being-in-the-world and meaningful experience in sport?
Why should we consider the term opting out instead of dropping out from sport? What other cultural narratives and discourses should we challenge to open up more diverse ways of experiencing and being in the sport world? 
Dr Christian Thue Bjørndal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sport and Social Science at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Christian’s work has focused on interdisciplinary perspectives on athlete learning and development with a special emphasis on sociocultural perspectives and ecological dynamics. In the podcast, we have an opportunity to look into some of the latest work he has produced on these topics.
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find these previous conversations interesting:
Tim Jones on social and emotional learning in football academies 
Francesca Champ on balancing performance and well-being in football academies
Colum Cronin on caring coaching. 

Deep Dive Into Screen Use among Children - Dr George Thomas (Pt1)

George Thomas completed his BSc at the University of Gloucestershire in Sport and Exercise Sciences, and his MSc at the University of Bristol in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Public Health. His graduate work focused on promoting physical activity in Further Education students. He has recently completed his PhD at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, focused on understanding contemporary screen use among children and adolescents.
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Accelerometer Specifications, Setting, Variables and Applications - CEO Kasper Lykkegaard (Pt4) - Bonus episode

Kasper Lykkegaard is co-founder and CEO of the company SENS INNOVATION ApS specialised in developing small, low power and flexible sensing devices for medical purposes.
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Questioning Sport Coaching Knowledge - Dr Christian Thue Bjørndal (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

Today we explore sport coaching knowledge from a critical socio-cultural perspective and ask question about what implications it can have for youth athletes' experiences and meanings assigned to sport, both on personal and collective level.
It is somewhat paradoxical that although significant advances have been made in scientific understandings in the areas of sport coaching and sport medicine, sports injuries remain at a high level in many sports. Does it have to do with the lack of integration of different disciplinary knowledge bases, the power imbalances inherent in the coach-athlete relationship, and/or the need for youth athletes to perform a certain type of identity to maximise their chances to continue in the talent pathway?
Dr Christian Thue Bjørndal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sport and Social Science at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Christian’s work has focused on interdisciplinary perspectives on athlete learning and development with a special emphasis on sociocultural perspectives and ecological dynamics. In the podcast, we have an opportunity to look into some of the latest work he has produced on these topics.
 
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Liked this episode? You are likely to find these previous conversations interesting:
Tim Jones on social and emotional learning in football academies 
Francesca Champ on balancing performance and well-being in football academies
Colum Cronin on caring coaching 
 

How to Provide Feedback to Children Related to Their Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity? Dr Amy Creaser (Pt2)

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
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What Works in App-assisted Postsurgical Rehabilitation? Dr Pieter Coenen (Pt3) - Practitioner‘s Viewpoint

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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Isle of Man TT: Sensation seeking or a site of authentic living (Pt2)? Dr Richard Sille - Meaningful Sport Series

This is the second part of our conversation with Dr Richard Sille on "risk sports" and the search for authentic living. The focus is on what is often viewed as the most dangerous sporting event in the world: the Isle of Man TT. We hear about TT riders stories as communicated in research interviews and autobiographies and discuss retirement and injury as threats to these athletes' identities.
The conversation draws on the research article Experiences leading elite motorcycle road racers to participate at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (TT): an existential perspective.
Dr Richard Sille holds a professional doctorate from Liverpool John Moores University. Currently, he works as a Sport & Performance Psychologist at the Isle of Man Sport and as a sessional lecturer at the University College Isle of Man.
You can follow Rich on Twitter @RichSille and find out more about his work on his homepage.

1+1=3 – Collaboration to Provide Researchers Better Tools for Data Collection - CEO Kasper Lykkegaard (Pt3) - Bonus episode

Kasper Lykkegaard is co-founder and CEO of the company SENS INNOVATION ApS specialised in developing small, low power and flexible sensing devices for medical purposes.
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This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
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The Best Strategies to Improve Compliance in PA Measurements with Children - Dr Matteo Crotti (Pt 3)

Dr. Matteo Crotti has got his PhD from the Liverpool John Moores University. He has been involved in various research projects concerning children’s physical activity, motor skills and health. Furthermore, he conducted a study concerning the relationship between play behaviours and motor skills in preschool children.
His early career researcher was in the field of Sports Sciences and his key research focus on physical activity promotion, physical activity assessment, physical education and coaching.
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How to Use Activity Tracking in Clinical Setting? CEO Kasper Lykkegaard (Pt2) -Practitioner‘s Viewpoint

Kasper Lykkegaard is co-founder and CEO of the company SENS INNOVATION ApS specialised in developing small, low power and flexible sensing devices for medical purposes.
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This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring
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