International Summer School for Young Researchers – Course for PhD Students

Sport, Globalisation and Cultural Diversity

Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Approaches to the Current Globalisation Processes in Sport and Sport Cultures

International Summer School for Young Researchers – Course for PhD Students

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Date: August 15 – 22, 2006

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 topic “Sport, Globalisation and Cultural Diversity” will be approached 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
Professor Gerald Gems, North Central College, Naperville
Professor Henning Eichberg, University of Southern Denmark
Associate professor Kirsten Kaya Roessler, University of Southern Denmark
Associate professor Inge Kryger Pedersen, Departement of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Professor Andrew Sparkes, University of Exeter (asked)
Professor Joseph Maguire, Loughborough University, former president of ISSA (asked)
Professor Wolf Brettschneider, Paderborn University (asked)
Professor Roland Sailer, Institute for Sport Sciences, Bern University, president of FEPSAC (asked)

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 20 and 25; 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). See application form at http://www.ifi.ku.dk/ifi/side1920.asp

Forward the application by email to Anne Lykke Poulsen: apoulsen@ifi.ku.dk
Deadline 15th of May, 2005.

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

ISSA Grants for Young Researchers:
The International Sport Sociological Association (ISSA) can support the participation of two students in the Summer School with 500 Euro each. 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:
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