The 4th International Conference on Sport and Exercise Science

The 4th International Conference on Sport and Exercise Science is hosted on 26 – 29 March 2013 by the Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the conference is “Well-Being Well Beyond Sport and Exercise”. This theme will be tackled from different perspectives including sport and exercise physiology, exercise science, sport nutrition, physical education, sport management, leisure and recreation and health promotion.

Key speakers
Dan Gould, Director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, focuses his research on means to transform youth sports so as to maximise beneficial physical, psychological and social effects and to minimise detrimental effects.

Veerle De Bosscher, professor at the Department of Sports Policy and Management in Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (Belgium), conducts comparative research on high performance sports.

Susan D. Hudson, professor of leisure studies at the University of Northern Iowa, is recognised for her work in the field of recreation, youth and human services.

Donetta Cothran, professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University, is interested in the teacher and student cognition and its impact on the teaching-learning process.

Symposium session
The programme includes the following discussion topics:

• Well-being well beyond physical activity and leisure
• Era, elite sport development
• Fun/damental physical education teaching
• Physical education and sport science in ASEAN
• Olympic movement on sport science and physical education

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