Research in Sport and Physical Activity (RISPA)
RISPA is an interdisciplinary research environment with a focus on sports, physical activity and movement cultures such as dance, outdoor life and the school subject sports and health.
About
Environment information
Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
- Medicine
As a subject, sport science is interdisciplinary in character and it is defined as the study of physical activity undertaken with the objective to promote physical and mental health, recreation, competition performance and aesthetic experience.
The research study subject area of sport science at Örebro University focuses on sports-physiological research on the body’s adaptation to inactivity as well as to different types of acute and prolonged physical activity and exercise in both health and disease. The subject also focuses on social, education, and sport management aspects of sports, including didactic, sociological, psychological and historical issues and methods within sport science. Study objects for research within the subject area include the school subject physical education and health, organised sports, sport as physical exercise and recreation, play, outdoor activities, physical performance, as well as physical training as an important measure in terms of prevention, treatment and the rehabilitation of different pathological conditions.
Within the subject, programmes are also offered that are linked to the research schools UVD (Educational sciences with emphasis on didactics) and the Graduate School for the Didactics of Physical Education.
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Contact persons for the environment: Fawzi Kadi and Mikael Quennerstedt.
Researchers
- Daniel Alsarve
- Erik Andersson
- Dean Barker
- Natalie Barker-Ruchti
- Oscar Bergens
- Annica Caldeborg
- Thomas Chaillou
- Peter Edholm
- Helena Ericson
- Christer Ericsson
- Mattias Folkesson
- Karin Fröding
- Susanna Geidne
- John Jouper
- Fawzi Kadi
- Diego Montiel Rojas
- Andreas Nilsson
- Lillemor Nyberg
- Elodie Ponsot
- Robert Primus
- Lara Rodriguez-Zamora
- Björn Tolgfors
- Jannik Gustafsson, PhD student
- Karl Jansson, PhD student
- Rasmus Karlander, PhD student
- Fanny Kuhlin, PhD student
- Lina Mrak, PhD student
- Jan Mustell, PhD student
- Karin Sjödin, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- #gymnastalliance: An international study on women's gymnasts speaking out about abuse
- Children of Substance Users - From Risk to Resilience
- DeGeer Family - the fall of an industrial town
- Diet and sarcopenia risk in older European adults
- Discourses about the body, health, and weight amongst physical education teachers
- Don't touch! - Pedagogical consequences of the "forbidden" body in Physical Education
- Education for sustainable sport management
- Eurodiet
- Health-promoting sports clubs (HPSC)
- How different types of hypoxia affect neuromuscular markers, metabolic stress and associated mechanisms during a 8 weeks hypertrophy strength training
- Impacts of amount and type of physical activity on muscle health during aging
- Learning to move differently: Developing a non-dualistic theory of movement learning (MOVE project)
- Meta-inflammation and body composition in older adults: impacts of dietary patterns and sedentary behaviours
- Moral Relations in Encounters with Nature
- Movement subject knowledge in physical education teacher education
- Pathophysiology and physical activity
- Physical activity, body composition and systemic inflammation in older adults
- Physical education practice
- Physiological responses and adaptations to exercise
- Promotion of Healthy Dietary and Physical Activity Habits in Aging Populations in a Primary Care Setting
- Recovery in sports
- Sports Didactics
- Teaching traditions and learning. Comparative didactic analysis of science education and physical education and health in Sweden, Switzerland and France.
- The effects of Qigong exercise on mood and feelings
- Videogames as health promotion - exergaming and young peoples learning about body, physical activity and health
- Voluntary work within project's funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund
Completed projects
- Assessment for learning in physical education
- Dietary habits and physical activity for health and wellbeing
- Doped via supplements? A pilot study on doping and supplements in sports clubs in Sweden
- Encounters with nature and environmental moral learning
- Epidemilogical and molecular links between chronic inflammation, physical activity, diet and muscle mass in elderly
- Exercise therapy in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy - Integration of physical training in lifestyle to induce functional, tissue and quality of life benefits.
- Food and health in educational contexts
- Intercultural encounters in physical education
- New dietary strategies addressing the specific needs of elderly population for an healthy ageing in Europe
- Physical activity and diabetes in young adults
- Physical activity, nutrition, inflammation and the metabolic syndrome in elderly: Epidemiology and in-vitro
- Promoting national implementation for sports club for health (sCFORH) programmes in member states
- The regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle in relation to aging and exercise
- TWH 65-70 A randomized controlled trial of health effects of training & dietary intervention in elderly women