Tag: doping

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Dr Kelsey Erickson is a Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University. Her primary research interest is the social psychology of doping in sport. Her PhD research was titled "Doping in Sport: a cross-national (US and UK) analysis of track and field athletes". Kelsey's current research is focused on designing, piloting and evaluating an anti-doping education program for student-athletes in the US, UK and Canada.

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Doktoranden kommer att anställas inom ramen för det Forte-finansierade forskningsprojektet ”Pumping up the ego. Biographical studies on young people’s doping trajectories”. Projektet handlar om unga människors in- och utträde ur dopinganvändning, och doktoranden kommer ingå i en forskargrupp vid institutionen för idrottsvetenskap vid Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar.

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Ask Vest Christiansen is an Associated Professor at the Section for Sport Science, Aarhus University. His main research area is humanistic doping research; doping in elite sports as well as recreational athletes’ use of performance and image enhancing substances. Long interviews are being carried out in order to understand the use of these substances as a cultural rather than medical problem.

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Integrity in the playing and management of sport is becoming one of the critical issues of our time. Actions that undermine the integrity of sport run the risk of undermining the business of sport and putting the jobs and economic value of a whole sector in jeopardy. Manuscripts are currently being solicited that identify the critical ethical issues that arise in the topic under discussion.

Coventry University and EuropeActive are seeking outstanding PhD candidates to join an EU funded project focused on collaboration with the wider physical activity sector and delivering real world impact in anti-doping in recreational sport and fitness. The student will have the opportunity to complete their studies based at EuropeActive headquarters in Brussels.

Skills required of applicant: Key skills would include: a demonstrable specialism in social science, sociology and/or the humanities or a related area; academic performance in these areas; and, evidence of the ability to undertake independent research. Supplementary skills might include: professional or vocational experience of sport and/or labour migration.