Existential & informal learning: talented youth athletes

Over the past two years, a ground-breaking European-funded project, Learn2, has been taking place to investigate the role of existential and informal learning in the lives of young, talented, pre-elite athletes in Finland. The international, multi-disciplinary research team was led Continue reading Existential & informal learning: talented youth athletes

Doctoral success

Swimmer

We are delighted to announce that a current HART member, Gareth McNarry, one of our dual PhD studentship-funded students (Universities of Lincoln and Copenhagen) successfully defended his thesis at a public viva held at the University of Lincoln in September Continue reading Doctoral success

Research on gender & dance

Street dancer

HART associates, Dr Helen Clegg (University of Northampton) and Dr Helen Owton (The Open University), together with HART’s Prof Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, have recently had published an article on ‘Attracting and retaining boys in dance’ published in the Journal of Dance Continue reading Research on gender & dance

High-altitude Mountaineering Multi-disciplinary Research

esearch on high-altitude mountaineers and endurance

In recent years, members of MTOUGH and HART have been working in an exciting research collaboration in a multi-disciplinary and phenomenologically-oriented series of research projects on high-altitude mountaineering, involving in-depth interviews with élite mountaineers across the globe. From a sport Continue reading High-altitude Mountaineering Multi-disciplinary Research