Funded PhD Studentships available at Northumbria University – Closing Date Feb 18th 2022 Just one of the ambitious and valuable aims of the COST Action “Determinants of Physical ActivitieS in Settings” (DE-PASS) is to provide an effective Knowledge Transfer Platform (KTP). DE-PASS brings together researchers from a host of nations all interested in advancing science...
Virtual mobility grant towards the Best Evidence Statement preparation I was successful in my Virtual Mobility (VM) grant application as part of the virtual networking tools in DE-PASS cost action CA19101 to further advance the work in Deliverable 2.5 (D2.5) in Work Group 2. As deputy lead of D2.5, I have been coordinating D2.5 activities...
Dr Ivana Milovanović, Associate Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, Serbia, recipient of an Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC) Conference Grant I am delighted to report that I was successful in my application for an ITC Conference Grant (advertised by the DE-PASS COST Action) and recently presented at the...
Determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Participation in a collaborative production of a best-evidence statement As part of my PhD project, I found a good opportunity in joining DE-PASS work group D.2.5, led by my supervisor Dr Fiona Ling, to which I could contribute to the deliverable and conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis...
Training School on Application and Implementation of Group Concept Mapping Techniques DE-PASS in partnership with Concept Systems Inc and PAfH (Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster, University of Limerick, Ireland) organized a Group Concept Mapping Webinar & Tutorial on 23rd and 30th September 2021. These two events were the final events part of the first...
Virtual Mobility (VM) Grant to create BESt on determinants of Physical Activities for children/adolescents As one of the deliverables for the DE-PASS cost action CA19101 is to produce a Best Evidence Statement (BESt), this Virtual Mobility (VM) was a great occasion to work with the WG2, Deliverable 2.5 Core group members in charge of creation...
Virtual mobility in gathering evidence for the Best Evidence Statement, including disabilities – Dr. Kwok Ng, Finland. There have been recent calls in the Lancet, BSJM, and JPAH for scientific approaches to include physical activity data on persons with disabilities. As one of the deliverables for the DE-PASS cost action CA19101 is to produce a...
4th International Aegean Symposiums, Social Sciences & Humanities-IV 11-12 September 2021 İzmir, Turkey Hosted by the IKSAD and ATLAS Journals I was successful in my application to DE-PASS for an Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC) grant aimed at supporting early career researchers to present work at international conferences on topics relevant to the DE-PASS network. I...
DE-PASS in partnership with Concept Systems Inc and PAfH (Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster, University of Limerick, Ireland) are now inviting members of DE-PASS to register for the following Summer Training School event/s: 1) Group Concept Mapping Webinar & Tutorial or 2) Group Concept Mapping Webinar ONLY. Please note if you want to...
The core group of Deliverable 2.5 kick-started our work on 24th June, 2021, with the support of 2 successful STSM (Short Term Scientific Mission) applicants, Dr Kwok Ng (University of Eastern Finland/University of Limerick) and Dr Esther Garcia Sanchez (Fundación para la Formación e Investigación Sanitarias de las Región de Murcia). The aim of this...