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Faculty of Sport Science
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Research Activities at the Faculty
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Research Activities at the Faculty
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In line with its work focusing on various aspects of movement,
games and physical activity (including leisure sports, health-related
exercise, rehabilitation, physical growth/development and performance),
the Faculty of Sport Science was involved in a wide range of research
activities in the year 2000. Topics focused in particular on the area
of load adaptation and the effects of sports and movement on biological,
psychological and social functions and processes. |
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Key Areas of Research
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The key areas of research were as follows:
- Health-related, psychological and training-specific aspects of
sport for children and youngsters.
- Economics of sport: sports activity and financial investment.
- Diagnostics and change of social inequality in sport.
- Conceptions of physical education and "schools in motion".
- Optimising sports-oriented schools in Saxony.
- Sports- and exercise-based physiological and biochemical diagnosis
and treatment of cardiovascular and orthopaedic-traumatological diseases.
- Elaboration, testing and optimisation of handicap-specific diagnostic
methods and evaluation procedures to monitor the effectiveness of
exercise and rehabilitation programmes for the disabled and chronically
ill.
- Movement behaviour of disabled persons – manifestations, adaptational
variations, and their relation to observed and measurable features
and learning processes.
- The effects of exercise therapy on physiological, motor-functional
and psychosocial parameters of patients with chronic diseases.
- Scientific studies of motor co-ordination, motor learning and motor
techniques in various sports as well as in various areas of sport.
- Sport and exercise in middle and old age (e.g. learning to swim;
back muscle training; physical competence; self-concept).
- Performance optimisation and patterns of training in various sports
(racket sports, swimming, biathlon, soccer, track and field sports).
Projects were funded by grants from non-profit organisations such as
the National German Institute of Sport Science (Bundesinstitut für
Sportwissenschaft), the National German Research Society (DFG) and the
German–American Council.
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Interdisciplinary Areas of Research
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Various projects included inter-faculty research within
the University of Leipzig, especially the University Hospital, the Department
of Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute of Applied
Psychology, and the Institute of Computer Science.
Research co-operation also exists with various external organisations
such as the Institute of Applied Athletics Training, the Chemnitz Institute
of Mechatronics, the Saxon Sports Association, sports federations in
Saxony and elsewhere in Germany, Leipzig sports schools and the headquarters
of the German Red Cross.
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International Research Co-operation
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The following international collaboration was conducted:
- Social influences on career transitions of adolescent athletes
Prof. D. Alfermann (University of Leipzig); Dr M. Lee (University
of Brighton, UK)
- Career development and career termination in elite sports
Prof. D. Alfermann (University of Leipzig); Dr N. Stambulova (The
P.F. Lesgaft Academy of Physical Education, St. Petersburg, Russia);
Aiste Zemaityte (University of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania)
- The role of information feedback in learning motor skills: processing
strategies on KR and No-KR trials
Dr S. Panzer (University of Leipzig); Prof. Ch. Shea, Dr D. Wright
(Texas A & M University, College Station, TX USA); Prof. R. Daugs,
Dr K. Blischke, Dr H. Müller (Saarland University)
- Does physical activity protect resources? Experimental studies on
the psychological effects of physical activity
Dr O. Stoll (University of Leipzig); Prof. S. Hobfoll (Kent State
University, Kent, OH USA)
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Zusammenstellung: Forschungskontaktstelle,
12.11.2001
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