Tag: fitness

Sport entrepreneurship is rapidly gaining ascendancy as a legitimate sub-area of entrepreneurship that combines health, wellness and fitness aspects that are increasingly important in today’s global society. The aim of this special journal issue is to focus on how sport entrepreneurship is related to the fitness and lifestyle entrepreneurship.

Dr. Søren Bennike was until quite recently a Post-Doctoral researcher and lecturer at the 'Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports' at the University of Copenhagen. He taught the courses 'sport in the welfare society' and 'the organisation of sport – in theory and practice'. He is now working at the Danish Football Association as Project Lead of Research & Knowledge.

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.

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.

This seminar is part of Malmö Research Seminar Series in Sport Sciences, Malmö University, Spring 2015. The seminars will take place at the Orkanen building (Nordenskiöldsgatan 10) in Room E121c, between 13:15 to 15:00. This seminar is in English.

Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, April 21-25 2015 Exercise and environment: New geographies of the exercise experience Session organizers: Alan Latham and Russell Hitchings, UCL Geography Physical fitness practices are part of the background of contemporary life. Jogging, cycling, walking, swimming, weight training, roller blading, dancing, playing and training for all kinds of sports animate people’s everyday worlds in all sorts...

Decolonizing Fitness: Women of Color, Feminism, and the Politics of “Fit” Bodies Deadline for Abstracts: May 25, 2014 Notifications: May 30, 2014 First Draft Due: October 1, 2014 Editor: Larissa M. Mercado-López, Ph.D., Women’s Studies, California State University, Fresno Several works have broken ground in critical feminist approaches to fitness, including Leslie Heywood’s Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Bodybuilding, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda...

The Annual Women’s History Scotland Conference will take place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September 2014 at the University of Abertay Dundee. Professor Charlotte Macdonald has been confirmed as our speaker for the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture on the Friday evening: Panel sessions will be held throughout the day on Saturday 27th September and paper proposals are now welcomed on...

Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London, 27-29 August 2014. Session "Exercise and environment: new geographies of the exercise experience and what we can learn from them". Session organizers: Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings and Andrew Barnfield, UCL Geography. Sponsored by the Geography of Health Research Group (GHRG)   Physical fitness practices are part of the background of contemporary...

Befattning FD i sociologi, universitetslektor Adress Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap, Linnéuniversitetet, 391 82 Kalmar E-mail Forskningsinriktning Idrott, genus, etnografi, gym-/fitness kultur. Pågående projekt Arbetar för närvarande etnografiskt med att analysera olika aspekter av gym-/fitness kulturen. Bland annat ett bokprojekt (The Global Gym. Gender, Health and Pedagogies) där fitnessbloggar, personliga tränare och dopinganvändare studeras. Publikationer Andreasson, Jesper & Johansson, Thomas (2014) ‘Doing for group exercise what McDonald’s did for...