News 2012
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24 May 2012 at 18:00 - The IET Sports Technology Lecture: Sports technology — enabling, enhancing or cheating? IET London: Savoy Place - updated 03/02/12
Dr. David Howe will be Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta - updated 01/02/12
Testing GB wheelchair rugby star Andy Barrow - updated 23/01/12
Opportunity to become a Fitness Instructor with InstructAbility - updated 17/01/12
24 May 2012 at 18:00 - The IET Sports Technology Lecture: Sports technology — enabling, enhancing or cheating? IET London: Savoy Place - updated 03/02/12
The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) forthcoming lecture will focus on sports technology and will have a particular focus on the role technology plays in sport for the disabled.
The speaker is Dr David James, senior lecturer in sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Public Engagement Fellow. He will explore the impact of technology in Paralympic sport and debate how we ensure that the values of sport are not corrupted by the enhancement techniques pioneered by the sports scientist and engineer.
The lecture is free to attend. For more information please visit www.theiet.org/sportstech
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Dr. David Howe will be Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta - updated 01/02/12
Dr. David Howe will be Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta from the 7th of February until the 1st of March. While there David be giving a couple of presentations (follow links below) and will be discussing existing and potential research projects with a number of staff across the faculty.
Click here for further information regarding presentaion 1 and presentation 2.
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Testing GB wheelchair rugby star Andy Barrow - updated 17/01/12
Back in December, GB wheelchair rugby player Andy Barrow came to the Peter Harrison Centre for some testing. PhD student Tom Paulson took him through his paces in the lab. To find out more check out Andy's video diary here.
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Opportunity to become a Fitness Instructor with InstructAbility - updated 17/01/12
If you are disabled, over 16, live in a London borough and would like to work in the fitness industry then this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!
Aspire, in partnership with YMCAFit, are running FREE courses to train disabled individuals as fitness instructors. Open poster here.
The course consists of 15 days (over a 3 month period) followed by a 6 week work placement at a local gym (2 days per week) where you can put everything you have learnt into practice.
If this sounds like the course for you, InstructAbility is running a selection day on 15th February 2012. For more information about the course and what previous participants had to say click here.
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