Physical Activity Researcher

We cannot create meaning out of nowhere, but we always depend on culture to provide us with a horizon of significance. But what kind of "thing" is culture?

Can we create a winning culture, a healthy …

What kind of being is the sporting human being? For Professor Gunnar Breivik, a human being is the homo movens and the homo ludens: a playful and active being that explores the world and its own poss…

What are the most interesting things in sedentary behaviour research at the moment?

Professor David Dunstan from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. His research focuses on the role …

What has the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about the role of sport in our lives? We will discuss how existential psychology can help us understand life and sport under the pandemic and what the pandemic…

Are children experiencing meaningless PE? How can physical educators actively promote meaningful experiences in PE?  Déirdre Ní Chróinín and Tim Fletcher have spent several years on developing and im…

Putting Nietzsche and sport together could seem like an odd pairing. However, our guest Yunus Tuncel argues that there are numerous dimensions that we find in Nietzsche’s work that can help us unders…

Psychologists around the world are increasingly focused on questions about meaning. Are people living meaningful lives? What makes work meaningful? What is the role of meaning in psychological health…

This is the first part of our discussions with Dr Emily Ryall where we explore foundational questions about meaning of sport in human life. Sport is clearly trivial: we cannot survive without food an…

Dr Sira Karvinen - Sweat analysis | Exercise | Future applications

Sira Karvinen currently works at the Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is a postdoctoral researcher…

How can we use sociological theory to understand the social responses to Covid-19 pandemic especially in relation to exercise and health? What does the response to Covid-19 reveal about the social st…

Covid-19 has made it impossible to practice many movement culture activities in the way we used to. Martial arts schools have been forced to close and move to online learning. But how can you teach s…

[Note: This episode was recorded 30th of April 2020] 

Dr Blaise Collins is working as Medical Science Liaison Intern at Atlas Medical in Texas U.S.  He describes himself as highly motivated physiolog…

What are the most interesting advances in qualitative research in sports and physical activity science?

Dr Francesca Champ is a Lecturer in Psychology of Football at Liverpool John Moores Universit…

Dr Harri Piitulainen is working as Assistant Professor at Sport and Health Sciences at University of Jyväskylä and as a visiting professor at Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at …

Weight loss in athletes and how to maintain muscle mass in the process.

Dr Juha Hulmi is an associate professor in exercise physiology and science writer. He holds PhD in exercise physiology.

Main re…

‘Human-computer interaction and interaction design for digital health and physical activity’

Dr Jan Smeddinck is working as Lecturer in Digital Health at Open Lab and at the School of Computing at Ne…

'The role of social stereotypes and social identity in motivation for physical activity'

Aïna Chalabaev is working as Associate Professor at University Grenoble Alpes, France. 

Her studies investigat…

This is a short episode to introduce our new co-host Dr Noora Ronkainen.

Noora will be doing episodes related to human and social scientific approaches and also some special episodes about career dev…

[Apologies for the sound quality - had all possible problems during the recording]

Dr Mats Hallgren is Assistant Professor in Epidemiology of Psychiatric Conditions, Substance use and Social Environm…

Claudia Teran Escobar is a Bolivian psychologist. After a bachelor's degree in Bolivia and a master's degree in applied and affective psychology in Switzerland, she is now a doctoral student at the U…