Thursday, April 28, 2005

SUMMER INSTITUTE: Sport and the Body

Sport and the Body
Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Approaches

International Summer School for Young Researchers –
Course for PhD Students
Call for applications

Date: August 16 – 23, 2005

Place: Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Aims and Concept:

The summer school is addressed to PhD students and young researchers and intends to support them in their scientific work.

It offers them the opportunity of acquiring knowledge about the state of the art in the area of theories and methods, of presenting their research, of discussing problems, of obtaining advice from experts and of building up a network. It is hoped to help young researchers to become integrated into the scientific community.

The summer school will focus on “Sport and the Body” from the perspective of humanities and social sciences (including history, pedagogy and psychology). The topic will be addressed also from a gender, a race and a class perspective.

The involvement of internationally renowned experts will guarantee that knowledge and advice as well as the evaluation of students’ papers will contribute decisively to research of high quality and relevance.

Organisation:

In keynote lectures the experts will address important questions, new approaches and results, problems and strategies of research, current trends and main issues in the area of sport and the body. The students will have the opportunity of asking questions and discussing with the experts. In addition, students have the opportunity to give a report of their own projects. Papers with the main outlines of these projects must be submitted before the summer school begins. There will be an in-depth discussion of each research project in working groups. In addition, the experts are available for individual supervision.

Experts:

Lecturers from the Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Gudrun Doll-Tepper, Free University, Berlin
Eric Dunning, Centre for Research into Sport & Society, University of Leicester
Gerald Gems, North Central College, Naperville
Gabriele Klein, Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Hamburg
Dong Jinxia, Beijing University, Bejing
J.A. Mangan, UK
Kari Fasting, Norwegian Sport University, Oslo
Inge Kryger Pedersen, Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Brett Smith, University of Exeter, UK

Selection of the students:

The summer school will take place in collaboration with the International Societies for Sport History, Sport Sociology and the European Federation of Sport Psychology. Each of these organisations can select and send students to the summer School.

Participants should be young researchers (either planning a PhD, working on their PhD or post docs). The participants may work in different disciplines from pedagogy to history. Participants will be selected according to the following criteria: state of their research, quality of the project.

The number of participants will be between 25 and 30; it is aimed to include students from as many countries as possible.

The application should contain the following information:

Name, nationality, date of birth, sex, addresses (private and workplace), e-mail, areas of study, academic degrees, state of PhD project/research, if you will present a paper in one of the workshops.

Additionally send a short abstract about the research project (½-1 page)

Forward the application by email to Anne Lykke Poulsen: apoulsen@ifi.ku.dk

Deadline 31st of May, 2005.

Costs:
Participation will be free. However, the students have to cover travel and accommodation.

ISSA Grant for Young Researchers:

The International Sport Sociological Association (ISSA) can support the participation of one student in the Summer School with 500 Euro. Students, who do not get support for travel and accommodation from their school, can apply for this grant. Candidates are to submit together with their application for participation a paper, where they describe their doctoral project (max. 3,000 words). In addition, they should send information about the cost of their travel.

More information:

Reinhard Stelter
Gertrud Pfister
Anne Lykke Poulsen
Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences/ University of Copenhagen
Nørre Allé 51, DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Phone 0045 3532 1751 E-mail apoulsen@ifi.ku.dk

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