Events & Conferences
This section includes the events and conferences that the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport is associated with.
Archived Events and Conferences can be found at the bottom of this page.
7th February 2009, Dr David Howe Delivering Macintosh Lecture at Queens University, Canada
On the 7th February 2009, Dr David Howe will be delivering the Macintosh Lecture 2009 at Queens University in Kingston, Canada. His talk will be titled:
'Social Justice and Paralympic Sport: towards happy marriage or difficult separation?'
The Donald Macintosh Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund was set up by Queen's University to bring prominent scholars in the field of sociology of sport or sport policy to provide a keynote lecture at this one day event. Further information about the Macintosh Lecture can be found at this link: http://www.skhs.queensu.ca/maclect.shtml
4-5th March 2009, BPA 7th Annual Sports Science, Medicine & Coaching Conference
The British Paralympic Association's (BPA) 7th annual conference will be held at Burleigh Court in Loughborough. Please check the BPA's website for the call for abstracts which should appear soon.
7-9th April 2009, The 4th International State-of-the-Art Congress on "Rehabilitation: Mobility, Exercise & Sports".
The 4th International State-of-the-Art Congress is organised by MOVE a research institute of the Vrije University in Amsterdam which aims to understand human movement by conducting excellent scientific research.
The theme of the 4th congress underlines the development taking place in MOVE's research since 1991 and from a strongly manual wheelchair-oriented focus rather than towards the much broader perspective of mobility restoration, active lifestyle, exercise, training and sports in the context of rehabilitation practice today.
Amongst the internationally renowned experts, Dr Vicky Tolfrey will be giving a key note lecture on 'Wheeled Sports'. The full congress programme can be accessed from here. To find out further information about the congress please see: www.move.vu.nl/links/rehabmove2009/
23-27 June 2009, 17th International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA) 2009.
As part of the 17th International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA) 2009 Dr. David Howe has been invited to lead a symposium on 'Anthropology and Sociology in Adaptive Physical Activity'. He and leading scholars in the field will discuss the importance of social science research surrounding disability issues. To find out further details about the conference please see the website at: http://www.isapa2009.com/default.html
Archived Events & Conferences
4-5th November 2008, External Visitor Dr Lucas van der Woude visited PHC
Dr van der Woude from the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) in Amsterdam visited the Centre to work with Dr Vicky Tolfrey, PHC Associate John Lenton and PhD student Barry Mason. Barry’s position is funded by a joint agreement between the British Paralympic Association and UK Sport, as part of the UK Sport Graduate Innovation Programme (GIP) of which Dr van der Woude is an advisor.
On Wednesday 5th November, Dr van der Woude presented a topical area of his research to Loughborough University's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (SSES) Physiology Research group. A timetable programme of the SSES's physiology research can be obtained from Dr Richard Ferguson.
