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Studying Meaning in Sport Psychology (Pt1) – Dr Matteo Luzzeri – Meaningful Sport Series

Psychologists around the world are increasingly focused on questions about meaning. Are people living meaningful lives? What makes work meaningful? What is the role of meaning in psychological health? However, few psychologists of sport have focused their efforts on the question of meaning in sport. One exception is Dr Matteo Luzzeri whose PhD research focused on understanding meaning and its relationship to identity, commitment, and burnout in sport.
This first episode with Matteo focuses on the concepts of meaning in life, meaning in work and meaning in sport. What do we know about sources of meaning in peoples’ lives? Can we make a case for domain-specific meaning in sport? Can we apply the meaningful work literature to studying meaningful sport? What about age-related differences in meaning in sport? And what are the possible threats to meaningful engagement in sport?
Dr Matteo Luzzeri defended his doctoral dissertation titled “The effects of a meaning-oriented online writing intervention on commitment, stress, and burnout in collegiate athletes” at Florida State University in early 2020. He has also validated (together with G. M. Chow) the Meaning in Sport Questionnaire (MSQ) recently published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
Matteo is also a professional waterskier and a coach, and hosts a highly popular waterskiing podcast which you can access at http://www.thewaterskipodcast.com/

Sport and The Good Life – Dr Emily Ryall (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series

This is the first part of our discussions with Dr Emily Ryall where we explore foundational questions about meaning of sport in human life. Sport is clearly trivial: we cannot survive without food and shelter, but we can easily survive without sport. Why, then, are so many people across the globe passionately involved in sport? And if sport is trivial, should we take it seriously, and how seriously? What happens if we take sport too seriously?
And finally, we delve to critiques of elite sport and the role of sport/exercise technology in possibly distorting our relationship with movement and our bodies.
Dr Emily Ryall is a reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire who enjoys wrestling with the deep and complex questions about the role of sport in human life. She has written on a range of philosophical and ethical questions in sport and enjoys teaching in relation to these issues as well as philosophy of science, critical thinking and the logic of arguments.

Sweat analytics: The most promising future applications? Dr Sira Karvinen

Dr Sira Karvinen - Sweat analysis | Exercise | Future applications
Sira Karvinen currently works at the Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is a postdoctoral researcher in a EsmiRs-study - Risk of metabolic dysfunction in middle aged women: systemic and intracrine oestrogen and microRNAs as mediating factors.
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Covid-19, Exercise and Bodily Self-Control - Drs Philippa Velija and Dominic Malcolm

How can we use sociological theory to understand the social responses to Covid-19 pandemic especially in relation to exercise and health? What does the response to Covid-19 reveal about the social status of exercise? Is Covid-19 going to change our exercise and body culture more permanently, and if so, how? These and other questions addressed by two leading sociologists of sport, Drs Dominic Malcolm and Philippa Velija.
Dr Dominic Malcolm is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. His recent research has focused on the intersections of sport, medicine, and health.
Dr Philippa Velija is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Sport and Head of Education and Sociology at the School of Sport, Health, and Social sciences at Solent University. Her research focuses on issues of social justice and gender relations in sport.
The discussion draws from a recent commentary written by the guests. See: Malcolm, D., & Velija, P. (2020). COVID-19, Exercise and bodily self-control. Sociología del Deporte, 1(1), 29-34.

Adapted Pedagogies of Martial Arts under Covid-19 - Dr George Jennings

Covid-19 has made it impossible to practice many movement culture activities in the way we used to. Martial arts schools have been forced to close and move to online learning. But how can you teach something so physical via zoom? In this episode, Dr George Jennings shares his findings from case studies on adapted pedagogies under Covid-19 lockdowns in three martial arts environments in the UK. You'll find out that surprisingly, there have been also positive aspects to the changed ways of practising Martial arts.
George is a qualitative sociologist and a lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research interest lies in the study of traditionalist alternative physical cultures including Eastern movement forms, martial arts, native games and folkloric dance.
You can follow George on Twitter @DrGBJennings.

Dr Blaise Collins - Strength training | Nutrition | Ergogenic aids | Myths

[Note: This episode was recorded 30th of April 2020] 
Dr Blaise Collins is working as Medical Science Liaison Intern at Atlas Medical in Texas U.S.  He describes himself as highly motivated physiologist and educator responsible for the development of a novel tourniquet system in pigs, the creation of a health and wellness company, and mastery in the areas of cardiovascular physiology and regenerative medicine.---
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Expert opinion - Qualitative research | Champ | Wiltshire | Monforte

What are the most interesting advances in qualitative research in sports and physical activity science?
 
Dr Francesca Champ is a Lecturer in Psychology of Football at Liverpool John Moores University. Francesca has expertise in the psychological development of youth athletes, qualitative methods including ethnography, and the training and education pathways of sport psychologists.
 
Dr Gareth Wiltshire is a lecturer at Loughborough University. Gareth is a social scientist with broad interests related to the social determinants of health. His main research interests fall into three areas: exercise and health for organ transplant recipients; the social determinants of physical activity and health inequalities; advanced and innovative methodologies.
 
Dr Javier Monforte completed his PhD at the University of Valencia (Spain) and is member of the ECR Committee at the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (twitter @QRSEsoc). Javier’s research addresses the role that physical activity plays in the lives of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses in society. His interests also lie in narrative psychology and new forms of thinking and doing research, such as postqualitative inquiry.

Dr Harri Piitulainen - Proprioception | Brain imaging | Movement control

Dr Harri Piitulainen is working as Assistant Professor at Sport and Health Sciences at University of Jyväskylä and as a visiting professor at Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
 
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Dr Juha Hulmi (Pt1) - Strength Training | Muscle Mass | Weight Loss

Weight loss in athletes and how to maintain muscle mass in the process.
Dr Juha Hulmi is an associate professor in exercise physiology and science writer. He holds PhD in exercise physiology.
Main research interests
Muscle hypertrophy
Muscle atrophy/wasting/cachexia
Sports nutrition
Exercise physiology
Muscle metabolism and signaling
Strength training
Muscle medicine
Weight loss / fitness
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Dr Jan Smeddinck – Digital health | Human-computer interaction | Interaction design

‘Human-computer interaction and interaction design for digital health and physical activity’
Dr Jan Smeddinck is working as Lecturer in Digital Health at Open Lab and at the School of Computing at Newcastle University, UK.
Prior he has spent one year as a postdoc visiting research scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley and he retains an association with the TZI Digital Media Lab at the University of Bremen in Germany. He consults on games for health, game user research and digital education.
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Combating Stereotypes in Physical Activity – Dr Aïna Chalabaev

'The role of social stereotypes and social identity in motivation for physical activity'
Aïna Chalabaev is working as Associate Professor at University Grenoble Alpes, France. 
Her studies investigate the effects of social stereotypes on behaviors in the physical domain, with a particular focus on sex and aging stereotypes. They explore the extent to which differences in performance and physical activity according to sex and age may be socially constructed, beyond their physiological determinants.
The identification of the mechanisms (motivational, cognitive, affective, physiological) through which stereotypes may be incorporated, and of the strategies that may limit their influence, is examined within different contemporary socio-cognitive models, and notably stereotype threat theory, stereotype embodiment theory, achievement goals theory, and regulatory fit theory.
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Introducing new co-host Dr Noora Ronkainen

This is a short episode to introduce our new co-host Dr Noora Ronkainen.
Noora will be doing episodes related to human and social scientific approaches and also some special episodes about career development and mental health in academia as these are topic’s relevant to all that always do not receive the needed attention.

Dr Mats Hallgren - PA | SB | Mental Health | Coronavirus pandemic

[Apologies for the sound quality - had all possible problems during the recording]
Dr Mats Hallgren is Assistant Professor in Epidemiology of Psychiatric Conditions, Substance use and Social Environment (EPiCSS); Department of Global Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet.
He leads research focusing on links between physical activity/inactivity and mental health. His current projects include exercise as treatment for alcohol use disorder ('FitForChange'), and yoga-based exercise to promote healthy ageing and wellbeing ('FitForAge').
He also work with Swedish register data exploring relationships of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and mental health. Completed  projects include exercise for depression ('Regassa') and first episode psychosis ('FitForLife'). Committed to translating research into clinical and public health practice. 
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Claudia Teran – PA | Active commute | Behaviour change | Health promotion

Claudia Teran Escobar is a Bolivian psychologist. After a bachelor's degree in Bolivia and a master's degree in applied and affective psychology in Switzerland, she is now a doctoral student at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. Passionate about Behaviour Change research and its applications for health promotion and the promotion of ecological behaviour, she is part of the multidisciplinary project "MobilAir".
Her Phd research is about combining geography, economy and psychology in order to understand obstacles and levers to sustainable and active commuting (spatial context, socio-economic and/or psychological factors).
She is part of an interdisciplinary team (geographers, economists, psychologists, epidemiologists, atmospheric physicists and chemistry researchers), they are all trying to reduce air pollution in Grenoble (France).
As a part of her thesis she elaborates an evidence- and theory-based behavioural intervention aiming car reduction that will take place next year.
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Dr Healy and Goode - SB | Behaviour change | Workplace | Intervention

Associate Professor Genevieve Healy and Dr Ana Goode provide us latest research findings from BeUpstanding program of research: a program aiming to support workplaces to stand up, sit less and move more for their health and wellbeing.
Associate Professor Genevieve Healy is a NHMRC Career Development Fellow at the Cancer Prevention Research Centre in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, and an honorary research fellow at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, and Curtin University.
Her PhD research reported some of the first evidence regarding the importance of regularly interrupting sedentary time for heart health. Her current research builds on this work to examine population-level variations in prolonged sedentary time as well as the feasibility and acceptability of reducing this behaviour in key settings, such as the workplace. 
Dr Ana Goode currently works at the Cancer Prevention Research Centre, University of Queensland. Her program of research brings together training and research experience in health psychology and health behaviour change interventions, including their adaptation and translation to practice to build the evidence base for the dissemination of physical activity, dietary change and weight loss interventions in applied community settings.
She is currently the program co-ordinator of the BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit: an evidence-based online program to reduce sitting time in the workplace.
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Dr Pazit Levinger - PA | Elderly | Outdoor exercise equipment | Active aging

Associate professor Pazit Levinger is clinical biomechanist and Accredited Exercise Physiologist. Her research focuses on age friendly communities and active outdoor space for older people.
She holds expertise in the areas of active ageing, outdoor exercise equipment for older people, physical activity, falls prevention for older people.
Current research focuses on active ageing and age friendly communities through community and local governments engagement. Leads the ENJOY trial (Exercise interveNtion outdoor proJect in the cOmmunitY) with the aim to develop a sustained outdoor physical activity program for older people to improve their health and wellbeing. Provide guidance and advice to local governments and senior organisations regarding design of active outdoor space and exercise equipment suitability for older people, built environment and site location.
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Dr Lindsey Reece - PA | Applied research | Policy | Public health

'In the intersection of applied physical activity research and policy'
Dr Lindsey Reece has extensive experience in applied research and evaluation, specialising in Physical Activity, Sport and Public Health. Within her current role as Research Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Prevention Research Collaboration, she is the Director of the SPRINTER (Sport and Active Recreation Intervention & Epidemiology Research) group - an innovative research partnership with the Office of Sport, NSW government.
Before taking up her Senior Fellowship at Sydney, Lindsey based herself in the UK, managing a broad range of research and evaluation initiatives for with Public Health England and Sport England to implement their national physical activity and sport strategies. Her portfolio included strategic program management of a city-wide physical activity pathway for people affected by cancer (Active Everyday); Child and Adolescent Obesity research leader for regional public health program; Joint evaluation leader for a GBP £10 million whole systems approach to obesity control (Sheffield Let’s change 4 life) and national evaluation leader for a physical activity programme aimed at integrating physical activity within clinical care pathways (Keep Active Keep Well, British Lung foundation).
A capable strategist and confident thought leader, Lindsey is happiest and at her best when managing numerous projects across a portfolio of highly complex, multi-sector programmes. Lindsey is also the Academic lead for parkrun au, and is an active member of the Global Research board for parkrun
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Dr Noël Barengo – PA | Exercise prescription | Clinical guidelines | Chronic diseases

Noël C. Barengo is working at FIU's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as assistant professor at the Department of Medical and Population Health Sciences Research in Florida International University in the USA.
He has worked as independent consultant in non-communicable diseases for the Pan-American Health Organization, the ASPIRE center in Qatar, the Ministries of Health of Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay.
Dr. Barengo´s primary research interests are prevention and control of diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, his scientific research has been focused on how to control and improve lifestyle habits and risk factors of non-communicable diseases in the population and high-risk groups.
Dr. Barengo is one of the most highly respected and well-known international experts in diabetes screening and prevention in Latin America. As an expert in diabetes screening and prevention, his services have been requested by many countries in the Americas including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru. 
He has published more than 90 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and contributed three book chapters. His H index is 27 and by 2019 his publications have received close to 5000 citations.
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Dr Dori Rosenberg – SB | PA | Behaviour change | Health promotion

Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH, has conducted extensive research into measuring and intervening on physical activity and sedentary time. Her research incorporates a multi-level and patient-centered perspective to help ensure individuals can be more successful in making healthy lifestyle choices by understanding: individual resources, characteristics, motivation, social norms and lives, and community environments.
Many people face substantial barriers to engaging in physical activity, so Dr. Rosenberg has examined practical approaches to helping people sit less as an alternative strategy to health promotion. She is currently testing the effects of sitting reduction on cardiovascular and metabolic health outcomes through a large randomized controlled trial. In the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) epidemiologic study, she is assessing physical activity and sedentary time with novel devices so she can examine associations with cognitive, functional, and physical resilience. Through this, Dr. Rosenberg is helping to build an evidence base for the health effects of sedentary time.
Dr. Rosenberg currently serves as co-chair of the Physical Activity Special Interest Group at the Society of Behavioral Medicine.  She is also affiliate associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
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Dr Ciaran Fairman – Exercise Oncology | Cancer | Strength training

Dr Ciaran Fariman is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Exercise Medicine Research Institute (EMRI) situated within the School of Medical and Health Science (SMHS) at Edith Cowan University. Having received his PhD from Ohio State University, his research focuses on the impact of exercise, nutrition and supplementation in the management of muscle loss in individuals with cancer.
Ciaran is also strong advocate of the dissemination of scientific research to a variety of audiences. He is the founder, CEO, and chief exercise physiologist at REACH (Research in Exercise and Cancer Health), a company designed to provide evidence-based guidelines of physical activity to health/medical professionals and individuals with cancer.
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How NOT to Screw Up Research Collaboration with Industry? Dr Stuart Smith

Dr Stuart Smith – Elderly | Rehabilitation | Videogames | InnovationDr Stuart Smith is an international researcher with a passion developing technologies that facilitate independent living for all ages and abilities. His career has taken him from working with NASA in California to falls research in Ireland, working with Microsoft, Intel, Sony and other technology companies to develop games for older adults.
His expertise centres around the translation of the research evidence base to products and services that enable older adults and people living with a disability to remain independent, engaged and productive.
His academic interests range from understanding the biological basis of posture control in older adults to reduce their risk of falls though the development and use of virtual reality environments to deliver education and training programs, implementation of novel sensing and computing technologies to keep older adults living independently, well and productive through to the role that interactive digital games can be used to engage people in repetitive exercise programs.
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