{"id":601,"date":"2014-10-10T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=601"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:48:14","slug":"sporting_lectures1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/sporting_lectures1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting lectures coming to a lecture hall near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-604\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2014\/10\/sportslectures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-604\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2014\/10\/sportslectures-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sportslectures\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2014\/10\/sportslectures-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2014\/10\/sportslectures.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr John Dickinson, Sports Scientist, discusses an Introduction to Sports Science lecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tuesday 7 October welcomed the first in a series of sporting lectures hosted collaboratively between the department of Sports and Exercise Science, the Enrolment Management Service team and Kent Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The lectures were set up as part of Kent Sport\u2019s 50:50 project which is coordinating 50\u00a0events and activities to help celebrate the University\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary year.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Introduction to Sports Science <\/em>lecture was presented by Dr John Dickinson, who teaches exercise and physiology modules and runs the Respiratory Clinic at the University\u2019s Medway campus.<\/p>\n<p>John talked about the role Sports Science can play in helping to improve sports performance and identified specific components such as physiology, biomechanics and psychology.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture was attended by 24 students, all from local schools, with the focus being to improve their knowledge of the subject. In turn, they hope to inspire future athletes, coaches or sports scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Jen Wilson, Head of Elite Development at King\u2019s School Canterbury and player-Coach of Canterbury Ladies Hockey Club said: \u201cThe Introduction to Sport Science workshop was interesting and informative. It gave our pupils insight into sports science elements which are used to support and develop elite athletes. Key to the success of the workshop was its interactiveness with support of visual aids\u00a0for the pupils.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next lecture is scheduled for Tuesday 4\u00a0November and will be given\u00a0by Dr Carla Meijen on our Medway campus. Carla will be looking at the affect psychology can play in sport and how helping athletes to understand the pressures involved with their sport can help to improve performance.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more information on this lecture series or any other of our 50 events please contact the\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk\">Sports Development Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 7 October welcomed the first in a series of sporting lectures hosted collaboratively between the department of Sports and Exercise Science, the Enrolment Management &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/sporting_lectures1\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[149515,52661,149511,20527,127001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}