Physical Activity Researcher

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Historically, mountaineering has been a masculine space where women have been marginalised if not completely excluded. Yet, like in many other physical cultures, women's participation has recently been increasing. What allowed women to develop careers in mountaineering? How do men and women draw on gender narratives to make meaning of their experiences on the mountains? And finally, does women’s p...

In this episode we are talking with Dr Peltonen about the themes related to his PhD dissertation: Isometric Force-Time Parameters in Monitoring of Strength Training With Special Reference to Acute Responses to Different Loading Resistances Training monitoring has been a common trend in endurance sports and activities over the past several years through the use of heart rate monitors, pedometers, c...

Dr. Mary Kennedy is a physical activity and nutrition specialist, researcher, author and coach. Dr. Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan University. Her research focus is integrating exercise and nutrition into standard healthcare practice. In her doctoral research she has been studying the implementation barriers to integrating exercise...

Athletes often become acutely aware of ageing in ways that people who are not involved in sport do not. But how do athletes construct meaning in sport in later life and how do they maintain their bodily capital? Emmanuelle Tulle's fascinating research on Veteran/Masters runners helps us to answer these questions. We also discuss the gendered construction of running careers in later life and the pr...

Annemarie Koster is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at Maastricht University. After receiving her PhD degree in 2005, she obtained an American fellowship at National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, MD, USA. Within the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry with Dr. Tamara B. Harris, she continued her research in t...

MD Dusty Narducci is a graduate of The Burnett School of Biomechanical Sciences where she received her Bachelors in Molecular and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. She obtained her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean and Family Medicine Residency at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. She completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at The Mayo Clini...

This is the second part of our conversation on skateboarding in the Olympic Games (see part 1 here ). For the first time, skateboarding is included on the Olympic arenas this summer. What is going to happen? What kind of new Olympic narratives will be created and who will be the heroes and the zeroes? Can skateboarding maintain its subcultural identity or will it be subsumed under the broader Olym...

Dr Patrick Jachyra is working as a post-doctoral fellow at Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in University of Toronto. His research explores, for example, physical activity participation among young people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Young people with ASD are less likely to be physically active compared to their peers, and increasingl...

Dr. Mary Kennedy is a physical activity and nutrition specialist, researcher, author and coach. Dr. Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan University. Her research focus is integrating exercise and nutrition into standard healthcare practice. In her doctoral research she has been studying the implementation barriers to integrating exercise...

Lifestyle sports are increasingly included in the Olympic Games. For the first time, skateboarding is included on the Olympic arenas this summer. For some people, this is a natural progression, whereas for others, this represents a collision of two incompatible cultures of sport (if skateboarding can be called such). What happens, when Olympics (as corporate, nationalistic, spectator-based and poi...

Gabriela is a Physician from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador with an interest in public health and health promotion. She has worked in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador in rural communities, focusing on health promotion and primary prevention. This work experience sparked her interest in public health and she later pursued a Master of Public Health at UQ in 2015....

MD Narducci is a graduate of The Burnett School of Biomechanical Sciences where she received her Bachelors in Molecular and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. She obtained her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean and Family Medicine Residency at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. She completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at The Mayo Clinic and...

Many athletes experience adversity at some point in their sporting lives. Although adversity - such as a sports injury or being de-selected - is often thought to be a negative experience, sport psychology researchers have increasingly demonstrated that adverse experiences can also have some positive outcomes for athletes, such as personal growth and finding new meaning in sport or life. But does t...

Annemarie Koster is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at Maastricht University. After receiving her PhD degree in 2005, she obtained an American fellowship at National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, MD, USA. Within the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry with Dr. Tamara B. Harris, she continued her research in t...

Dr. Amy Bantham has 20 years of experience working in consulting, health & fitness, and healthcare.  She is the CEO and Founder of Move to Live More℠, a research and consulting firm addressing physical inactivity, obesity, chronic disease, and social determinants of health through cross-sector collaboration and innovation.  With a mission to help people live healthier, longer, more active lives, M...

For some athletes, it is the disjunctures in their sporting lives such as a sports injury that trigger deeper questions about meaning. But why are some athletes more vulnerable to a crisis when they experience a sporting injury, and how can sport psychology practitioners expand their understanding of the impact of injuries not only on athletes, but people around them? In sport psychology, many eff...

Gabriela is a Physician from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador with an interest in public health and health promotion. She has worked in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador in rural communities, focusing on health promotion and primary prevention. This work experience sparked her interest in public health and she later pursued a Master of Public Health at UQ in 2015....

Dr. Amy Bantham has 20 years of experience working in consulting, health & fitness, and healthcare.  She is the CEO/Founder of Move to Live More℠, a research and consulting firm addressing physical inactivity, obesity, chronic disease, and social determinants of health through cross-sector collaboration and innovation.  With a mission to help people live healthier, longer, more active lives, Move...

This is the second part of our conversation with Laurence Halsted, a two-time Olympian, Performance director at the Danish Fencing Federation, and a member of the True Athlete Project (TAP) team. In the first part, we heard about Laurence's career and the work that is being done in TAP towards a more compassionate world through sport. Today, we continue exploring the problematic face of contempora...

Performance in Mind is run by Dr Josephine Perry. She is a chartered psychologist working with those in sport and on the stage and in business to help them overcome their barriers to success so their can achieve their goals. Josephine has a background in communications and behaviour change having worked for many years in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across priv...

Part II Dr. Peura is a medical doctor from Helsinki, Finland. He is interested in AI in Healthcare and he is an occupational health physician. He is also managing the FinnGen research project and is an author of a book about overcoming depression. Dr. Peura´s passion to help and coach people through depression started from his own experience. He was a plastic surgeon, started being afraid of doing...

Laurence Halsted is a two-time Olympian, Performance director at the Danish Fencing Federation, and a member of the True Athlete Project (TAP) team. In today's episode, we hear about his career in sport and how his journey led him to working in TAP which is a project dedicated to working towards a more compassionate world through sport. As TAP website states, “Sport can provide life changing momen...

Performance in Mind is run by Dr Josephine Perry. She is a chartered psychologist working with those in sport and on the stage and in business to help them overcome their barriers to success so their can achieve their goals. Josephine has a background in communications and behaviour change having worked for many years in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across priv...