Seventh annual symposium on health performance and exercise sciences (2025)
Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University
Welcome to Seventh Annual Symposium on health, performance and Exercise Sciences
(previously SYMPOSIUM ON SPORT SCIENCES)
Program: HES ***mandatory course**** (also relevant for BEN, HCHPO)
Face to face and online lectures
Description:
This PhD course will be organized for the seventh time as a continuation of previous symposiums on exercise sciences, physical activity and human performance. This course will provide the audience with insights into research projects within the health and exercise sciences aiming to understand and/or promote physical activity during school and leisure time, at work and at the high-performance level. The course will introduce the PhD students to insights that are relevant across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities with a focus on development, implementation and evaluation of health and exercise research with different populations. Lectures will cover recruitment and involvement of research participants, mixed methods for gathering and analysing health outcomes of exercise, improving exercise efficiency and mental performance, along with novel technologies in sports, and injury prevention in sports and at work.
Internationally recognized speakers as well as speakers from Aalborg University will be invited. A special emphasis will be given to the speaker-student interaction. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site in due time. It will be possible to follow the PhD course remotely (all lectures will also be transmitted online).
Prerequisites:
The students participating in this course should have basic knowledge about health and exercise sciences and work with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods.
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation will be announced at the course
Key literature:
A reading list with relevant papers and book chapters will be announced before the course.
Organiser:
Associate Professor Rogerio Pessoto Hirata, email: rirata@hst.aau.dk
Co-organisers:
Professor Sine Agergaard, email: sine@hst.aau.dk
Professor Pascal Max Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Organisers, invited national and international speakers and speakers from the Department of Health Science and Technology and Aalborg University Hospital
ECTS: 1.0
Time: 18 and 19 June 2025 (08.15-16.15)
Place: Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløfs Vej 249, 9260 Gistrup, room 11.00.034
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 28 May 2025