Sigmund Loland

Profilbeschreibung:

Dr. Sigmund Loland is a Professor of Sport Philosophy and Ethics at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH). Dr. Loland has published extensively in areas such as fairness and justice in sport, performance-enhancing technologies and doping, epistemology of movement, and sport and ecology. Dr. Loland has held several executive positions and has been the Rector of NIH and the President of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS). He is a current member of WADA’s Ethics Board, and of the Grant Selection Committee at IOC's Olympic Studies Centre. 

Vorläufiger Keynote-Titel:

"The sports sciences and knowledge transfer: limitations and possibilities"

Keynote Abstract:

Starting with an overview of the sports sciences as systemized in research groups that share paradigmatic premises, I will discuss how the various groups meet expectations on knowledge transfer (KT). KT refers to a variety of activities with the aim of mutually beneficial collaboration between universities, the public, the voluntary sector, and businesses. The discussion reveals how sports research groups tend to reproduce the traditional KT strategies of their scientific traditions. For example, exercise science and sports medicine aim to enhance evidence-based practice in performance development and/or health promotion. Typically, the social sciences and humanities offer critical analyses of (asymmetric) sporting power structures and system (dys)functions and proposals for system change. As an alternative, I give examples from sports science interaction with public authorities and international sports organizations in which KT strategies are combined and work in complementary and mutually beneficial ways. Summing up, I point to the significance of sports science institutions and research groups developing and implementing best practice KT models.