Speakers
Keynote Speaker
JOHN VAN DER KAMP
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences
John van der Kamp is an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and also holds a visiting assistant professor the University of Hong Kong in -obviously- Hong Kong. John is interested in motor learning and the reciprocity between action and perception. In his presentation John will address his recent work on implicit and explicit interventions in children’s and young adults’ motor learning, particularly during physical education classes.
Speakers
ADRIAN KEE
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Physical Education & Sports Science
Adrian Kee is an assistant professor at the Physical Education and Sport Science Academic group at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He graduated with a PhD from the National Taiwan Normal University’s Physical Education Department. His research interest is on the effects of mindfulness on human movements, particularly that of adaptive performances. He is also interested in the complex systems approach, and is an alumnus of the Sante Fe Complex System Summer School.
JAMES CROFT
Edith Cowan University
School of Medical and Health Sciences
James is a lecturer in Motor Control and Skill Acquisition within the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. His research investigates perception and action in a seemingly diverse array of tasks, including Parkour, climbing, locomotion, and cycling. The central theme is to understand how we choose appropriate movement patterns when alternatives are available, and how those choices (and the efficiency of execution) change with expertise.
MARCUS LEE
Singapore Sports Institute
Sports Biomechanics Department
Dr Marcus Lee heads the Sport Biomechanics department in the Singapore Sports Institute. He completed his PhD in Biomechanics and Motor Control, and a post-doctoral research fellowship in Public Health at The University of Western Australia. He manages the Biomechanics support provided to Team Singapore coaches and athletes across a range of sports. He is interested in how vision and movement contribute to skilled action and injury prevention. His research on ACL injury prevention clinched the Best New Investigator Award at the Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport. He is passionate about teaching and research, growing Sports and Sports Science in Asia, and most importantly, helping Singaporeans to Live Better Through Sports.
GERT-JAN PEPPING
Australian Catholic University
Faculty of Health Sciences
Gert-Jan is the deputy head of the School of Exercise Science at the Australian Catholic University. His research interest is in the enhancement of decision-making skill in sport and exercise. What are the social, emotional, neuropsychological, neurophysiological and perceptuo-motor processes for decision-making in sport and exercise? These insights gained are important for sport science support, coaching, training, team selection, and team development, but also for sport participation, injury prevention and rehabilitation, and the identification/recognition and development of sport talent. Dr Gert-Jan has published research on a range of topics including perceived affordances, motor development in children as well as the role of perception in decision-making in sports.
CHRIS BUTTON
University of Otago
School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences
Associate Professor Chris Button works at the University of Otago. He gained his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000 and then worked at Edinburgh University for 3 years before moving to New Zealand. Dr Button’s research interests concern an ecological dynamics approach to motor skill learning. In recent work he is applying these theoretical ideas to the acquisition of swimming survival skills in children. Dr Button has published research on a broad range of topics including individual differences, movement variability, perceptual skill, and interpersonal coordination.
RICH MASTERS
University of Waikato
School of Development and Human Movement Studies
Rich gained a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of York in England. He is a Professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he was formerly Director of the Institute of Human Performance. His work explores the way in which humans learn and perform skills. In particular, his work in the field of implicit motor learning has been the subject of interest in a range of movement related disciplines, including surgery, rehabilitation (e.g., stroke), sport sciences, speech and hearing sciences, movement disorders, such as Parkinson disease, and ageing (e.g., elderly falling).
MASATO KAWABATA
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Physical Education & Sports Science
Masato is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. He completed his PhD in Exercise and Sport Psychology at UQ. Masato has conducted extensive research on ‘flow’ (a psychological state when people optimally functioning with focused and high engagement) in physical activity settings. He is also interested in examining the effect of exercise and human movement on brain functioning. In his presentation, Masato will talk about his recent study on the factor structure of the Movement Specific Reinvestment Scale from a cross-language perspective.
ROBERT REIN
German Sport University Cologne
Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research
Robert Rein is a researcher assistant at the German Sport University Cologne at the Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research. He completed his PhD at the University of Otago (New Zealand) in motor control and was a post-doctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research focusses on motor control, skill acquisition and performance analysis.