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BASES International Conference Grants
Number Offered: 6 each year
Target BASES Membership Category: Professional (for the past two years)
Application Closing Date: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September
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Results Available: Within a month of the application closing date
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The BASES International Conference Grants aim to a...
BASES is delighted to launch a new webinar programme, in association with Human Kinetics, as an addition to our current CPD programme of activity. Each webinar lasts one hour which includes a presentation from an expert in the topic area and provides an opportunity for an online Q&A towards the end. Webinars are free to attend but have limited spaces available so book your place now
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has announced the appointment of Professor Craig Mahoney as its new Principal and Vice-Chancellor. Professor Mahoney, a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and former Chair of the Association, is currently Chief Executive of The Higher Education Academy, the organisation that champions excellence in learning and teachi...
Following formal consultation we have published the revised statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013).This guidance has been published in response to recommendations from Professor Eileen Munro's report, 'A child-centred system'.
The guidance clarifies the core legal requirements on individuals and organisations to keep children safe. It sets out, in one place, the l...
The 20th European Congress of Obesity (ECO2013) will be held in Liverpool from 12th-15th May 2013. You are cordially invited to attend a post-congress satellite event on Thursday 16th May 2013, entitled “AFRESH approaches to childhood obesity: enterprise, innovation and action”. The event is jointly organised by AFRESH and Liverpool John Moores University.
This meeting will explore innova...
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences has signed up to the Voluntary Code of Good Governance, an initiative backed by Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson MP. The Code aims to enable sport and recreation organisations to aspire to and maintain good governance by providing signatories with practical, simple and realistic advice on improving structures and de...
Champaign, IL—Human Kinetics has begun publication of Journal of Motor Learning and Development, a new journal that aims to advance the understanding of movement skill acquisition and change across the life span. It provides a platform for innovative research related to factors that influence the learning or relearning of skills in individuals with various movement-related abilities and disab...
Exercise Medicine conference is taking place on Friday 21 June and Saturday 22 June. It will focus on the overwhelming evidence that low physical activity is a major contributor to non-communicable diseases.
Click here for programme. Book online at www.rsm.ac.uk/sports
Physical inactivity causes more premature deaths than smoking.
There is overwhelming evidence that low physical acti...
Sponsored by the Peter Harrison Foundation
"The Road to Rio: Learning from London"
Target Audience: Practitioners, coaches and applied researchers with a special interest in elite Paralympic sport.
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Please email conference2013@paralympics.org.uk to express interest in attending.
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Cardiff Sports and Exercise Medicine Society (CSEMS) is hosting an Exercise Medicine Symposium on Saturday 15th June.
The symposium aims to display the exciting work going on here in Wales and the UK in the Exercise Medicine field, and we are very pleased to welcome our keynote speaker Professor Steven Blair from the USA.
For the price of only £10 per delegate, and with many eminent spe...