News and events
| Collaborative Day at Green College |
Posted 14 Jul 2023 On Monday June 12th, along with students and other lab personnel, we met to spend the day at Green College to discuss research and generate ideas for future collaborations.SPEAKERS:• Rouwen Canal-Bruland: Inst of Sport Science, U. Jena, Germany. |
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| Motor Skills Lab goes to work at UBC-O in Kelowna |
Posted 14 Jul 2023 Through funding help from UBC's CRMA (Collaborative Mobility Research Awards), we (Matt, Carrie and Felix) recently visited Dr Sarah Krauetner's lab at the UBC-Okanagan campus. This was our second visit where we learnt about TMS (Transcranial Magnetic stimulation) and hotspotting and discussed various research projects that we have been working on across the NIMBL lab and the Motor Skills Lab. |
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| Welcome to visiting graduate research student Felix Weilharter |
Posted 14 Jul 2023 It's a great pleasure to have Felix visit us for 3 months in the lab. this summer. He is joining us from the University of Konstanz in Germany where he has been studying sport psychology and ratings of perceived effort associated with various precision judgments of force. We are currently working on developing projects related to action observation and force production as well as implicit biases in sport-related judgement tasks. |
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| Dr Rouwen Canal-Bruland: Visiting International Faculty Researcher. Public talk June 15th |
Posted 09 Jun 2023 |
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| NASPSPA workshop Psychology of High Quality Coaching: Translating Research into Practice |
Posted 05 Jun 2023 Along with organizers, Drs Harjiv Singh (Orlando Magic Basketball) and David Anderson (San Francisco State University), I was fortunate to be part of a committee that organized the post-conference, one day workshop for NASPSPA 2023 in Toronto. This was a workshop designed to address issues concerning translation of research into practice with respect to high quality coaching.For details of the event and NASPSPA conference June 2023: |
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| FIFA publish "training centre" video and interview |
Posted 04 May 2023 FIFA have been developing a series of "Science Explained" videos for practitioners and I was recently invited to give one on the topic of deliberate practice. |
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| Carrie's thesis proposal Wednesday April 26th 1pm |
Posted 25 Apr 2023 Title: The role of observed errors in performing and learning motor skillsMy committee is:Committee members: Dr Nicola Hodges, Dr. Romeo Chua and Dr. Sarah KraeutnerWhen/Where: April 26th at 1pm in room 300 WMG |
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| Joe Vecchione MSc Thesis Defense on Technique Change |
Posted 29 Mar 2023 Joe will be defending his Master's thesis on March 30th. |
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| MSL going to UK and Ireland |
Posted 13 Feb 2023 After some down-time during COVID, we're venturing out again and planning to attend two conference in the UK.RIO - Research in Imagery and Observation; Conference to be held in Limerick, May 11th and 12th. Abstract deadline Feb 28th |
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| The Sport Doctor Podcast: Using a challenge-based coaching framework |
Posted 13 Feb 2023 Our paper with Keith Lohse gets a little more publicity and translation into coaching practice on the Australian "Coach Doctor" Podcast with Dr James Barkell.You can find it by clicking the link to the coach doctor, or by listening through spotify or other podcast players. |
