Recently, the Sport Academic Group hosted researcher Dr Philip Furley from its Erasmus partner institution German Sport University Cologne. Philip works for the Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research and has recently published studies in a number of fields like inattentional blindness and creativity, many of which funded by the prestigious German Research Foundation…. Read more » about Why English Football Player Fail in Penalty Shootouts: German Sport Psychology Researcher Visiting BU
Last week some of the festIM team attended IFEA Europe’s Annual Conference in Nice, the festIM dissertation students had the opportunity to hear inspiring talks from practitioners, academics and network with industry peers and colleagues. Our students were also lucky enough to attended a two day Pre-Conference Masterclass at Ipag Buiness School, Nice where they… Read more » about IFEA Europe Conference – Nice 2014
The Festival Impact Monitor is a Fusion supported project that is intended to develop the following: 1) An approach to evaluating the impact of events using data from social media. 2) Reusable Learning Objects that can guide future researchers seeking to apply social media data. 3) Individuals with experience in conducting research with social media… Read more » about The Festival Impact Monitor
Samuel Nyman (Psychology, DEC), Andrew Callaway (ST), and Kelly Goodwin (ST) were awarded Research Development Fund – Small Grant funding for 2013 to conduct a study to promote walking among older people. Over the summer they identified a further fusion opportunity so that students from both schools could be involved. They report their experience here: Co-creation in… Read more » about Toward a better science of promoting walking: A cross-school Fusion project
Dr Katherine King has recently returned from a 2 week visiting scholarship to the Faculty of Management at Vancouver Island University (VIU) which saw her take part in range of teaching, community engagement and research activities. The visiting scholar programme is an integral component of the World Leisure Centre of Excellence accredited Masters in Sustainable… Read more » about Dr Katherine King visits Vancouver Island University
Dr Philip Alford was invited by Bernard Wildauer of the Zillertal Tourism School to present to tourism teachers from all over Austria on the subject of online tourism marketing. The aim was to provide the teachers with specialist knowledge in the area of online marketing which they could then take back into the classroom. As… Read more » about Dr Philip Alford in Austria to share knowledge about online marketing
We are proud to announce that Barbara Neuhofer, who is one of ST’s excellent PhD students and also won the ITT PhD Student of the Year 2013 Award, has been selected as one of the winners for the International PhD Student Competition 2013. The School of Management, University of South Australia will host 15 of… Read more » about Winner of International PhD Student Competition
