Events

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease mainly affecting older adults. The knee is the most commonly affected joint. Abnormal mechanical loading of the joint has been implicated as one of the main contributors to disease progression. Musculoskeletal simulations have provided insights on the potential role calf muscles have on knee joint loading suggesting that age-related decline in calf muscle function may be detrimental for knee joint health.

This talk will highlight our recent advances in understanding the potential treatment targets for adults with cognitive decline, including both brain vascular function and systemic cardiovascular health.

Generally, sport-for-development (SfD) targets marginalised communities through programs of physical activity, mostly described as sport. We argue that the nature of the sporting experience for Indigenous participants within the context of SfD initiatives is contingent upon the nature of the educators, their background, experiences and training, relative to the groups with which they are working.

Documentaries are understood as films that represent reality and provide some form of historical record of the world at a particular time and place. My presentation examines a time and place in Canadian history that witnessed an inordinately vigorous rate of production of documentary films about sport.

Bondi, arguably Australia’s best known surf beach, raises questions about the relationships between physical cultures and the natural and built environments. I will explore these relationships through an historical analysis of swimming, surfbathing, surf lifesaving, and surfing, and their contributions to the making and preservation of Bondi Beach.

In recent years, right across the world, from Australia to Iceland, and from America to China, match-fixing has been linked to material gain through manipulation of the result or some in-game feature. Match-fixing challenges notions of sporting integrity, fair play, sportsmanship and respect and could potentially affect spectator numbers, sponsorship, mass-media revenues and club profits.

As women enter into spheres of production and consumption previously considered ‘masculine’ there is an opportunity to question the emotions and affects in circulation and what these ‘do’ to support the transformation of social life. The entrée of women into the world of professional contact sport is one site where these emotions and affects are intensified.

Physical activity plays an important role in both maternal and child health, and should be considered a front-line for enhancing maternal physical and mental health.

There is a scene in Mr. Ed where Wilbur, the talking horse Mr. Ed’s “owner,” are watching horse races together. Mr. Ed is the 1960s American television comedy about a horse, Mr. Ed, who only talks to the homeowner, Wilbur. Wilbur has entered Ed into a horse race, and they watch a race on television together. Suddenly, Ed sees a jockey whip one of the horses, and reaches for the phone to call the SPCA, which Wilbur quickly quashes.

Dr Anna Hogan will present a talk titled 'Dismantling ‘public’ schooling'. In recent years, alternative modes of ‘public’ education have been pursued in a number of countries. These schools involve corporations receiving public funding to run public schools. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has indicated that Australia should trial these types of schools.

A/Prof Lene Haakstad will present a seminar titled` To Learn from Practice: Evaluation of a community-based exercise intervention during pregnancy`. The presentation will outline findings from a large-scale study which explored individual experiences with participating in an exercise intervention during pregnancy. A/Prof Haakstad is an exercise researcher at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NSSS). Dr Haakstad’s primary research field is women`s health, with particular focus on physical activity and health during pregnancy, and the effect of exercise on outcomes for the mother and the foetus. She is currently a visiting fellow at The University of Queensland.

How should we think and teach about our bodies and the bodies of our students and their clients? Bodies and their sizes and shapes are pulling and pushing us in many different directions but, arguably, we don’t talk about this often enough.