{"id":721,"date":"2020-06-02T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/?p=721"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:31:37","slug":"meet-the-team-dave-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2020\/06\/02\/meet-the-team-dave-hooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team &#8211; Dave Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Next in our Meet the Team series we chat to lecturer in Sport Management, Dave Hooper<\/p>\n<div><strong>Why did you pick a career in sport?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Sport has always been my passion. For me it is a subject that I have always been fascinated by and love discussing. As a subject it is international and as a career choice there are a myriad of opportunities for employment. I have been fortunate enough to live and work in a few different countries working alongside many different cultures. I have worked in Football Management, Sports\/Fitness Development and Ski &amp; Tennis coaching. I went to university to study Human Movement and Sports Development and found a career in Sports Management, Coaching and Teaching. Once I graduated I never looked back.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What do you enjoy most about teaching at Kent?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Engaging with students during lectures, seminars and beyond. I work a lot in the local community finding students opportunities to try different sports and fitness related development projects. I particularly enjoy\u00a0watching the individual student journey\u00a0through their chosen degree\u00a0course and then into\u00a0graduate employment,\u00a0fully motivated with a real drive to succeed.<\/div>\n<div>I am still in contact with some Alumni from the School who are living in various countries\u00a0around the world and either promoting sport, working in health\/fitness\u00a0or running international tournaments\/events. They do like to remind me of the similarities between the lessons learned at Uni and the issues they are being paid to overcome!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>What are you currently researching?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Weight Training &amp; Fitness Opportunities for Girls in local Secondary Schools.<\/div>\n<div>Business opportunities in Personal Training and Online personal training options.<\/div>\n<div>Placement opportunities in Fitness, Health, Sport Development and Teaching<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What is your favourite sport to watch or play<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Winter &#8211; Skiing<\/div>\n<div>Summer &#8211; Golf\/Cycling<\/div>\n<div>Really enjoy watching the big Golf tournaments (Ryder Cup\/The Open) or Ski Sunday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next in our Meet the Team series we chat to lecturer in Sport Management, Dave Hooper Why did you pick a career in sport? Sport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2020\/06\/02\/meet-the-team-dave-hooper\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63668,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}