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The aim of the thesis is to improve the understanding of physical game demands, fatigue profiles in male elite football players with an emphasis on individual differences and implications for fitness training strategies. Running distance and in-game fatigue profiles were investigated through an analysis of game activity data from top-class football players. Post-game fatigue and recovery profiles were alsoexamined.

The main purpose of Elin Arvidson’s thesis was to explore the possible effects of exercise training on acute physiological stress reactions, and to study relationships between the physiological responses to acute physical and psychosocial stress. All included participants performed a physical and a psychosocial stress test before randomization to either a control- or an intervention group.

Andreas Fröberg has a Ph.D. in sport science, and is also a fully qualified PE teacher. He holds a Senior Lecturer position at the Dept. of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interests lie within the area of sedentary behavior and physical activity, and health promotion interventions among children and youth.

The overarching aim of the present thesis was two-fold. The first aim was to describe and critically reflect upon the experiences of developing and implementing an empowerment-based school intervention. The second aim was to investigate accelerometer-measured sedentary time and physical activity among the adolescents and to evaluate the effects of the intervention on these variables.

As head of department at IKI, you will be responsible for the comprehensive leadership, development and quality of education and research in several multidisciplinary and highly specialised fields. Your visionary perspective will drive the department and develop its potential – both within education and collaboration, and the different research areas at the department.

Det aktuella doktorandprojektet ingår som en del av Simlyftet i Göteborg. Satsningens syfte är att öka jämlikheten i simkunnighet, bland annat genom att ge fri simundervisning till skolelever i olika årskurser (ca 15 000 barn årligen). Simlyftet kommer att starta hösten 2017 och genomföras som ett samarbete mellan skola och idrotts- och föreningsförvaltningen.

Institutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet utlyser en tjänst som doktorand i idrottsvetenskap inom projektet: "Skadefri ungdomsidrott: Best Practice i svensk idrott”. Vi söker dig som har en magister- eller masterutbildning i idrottsvetenskap, lärarutbildning i idrott och hälsa eller närliggande område.

Lennart K. Persson är professor emeritus i historia vid Göteborgs universitet. Hans långa forskarkarriär spänner över ämnen som äktenskap, syndikalism och dansbanor, men han har också publicerat fyra idrottshistoriska böcker, om bland annat friidrott, fotboll och handboll.

Karin Grahn is a Senior Lecturer of sport science in the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science at the University of Gothenburg. Karin has a PhD in pedagogics and is currently lecturing in the Sports Coaching programme as well as in teachers education programme for Physical education.

BefattningFDAdressInstitutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap, IKI, Box 300, 405 30 Göteborg E-mailForskningsinriktningFysisk aktivitet, idrott, kropp, mat, ortorexia nervosa och samhällePågående projekt"Mellan hälsa och ohälsa - en studie...