Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta Dr. Mosewich’s research interests focus on the examination of stress, coping, emotion, and resultant cognitive and behavioural responses within the sport domain. The sport context can present many challenges, and ensuring that athletes have the skills and resources to effectively manage different issues in sport is essential to promote adaptive responses to stress and emotion and foster successful sport experiences that are also positive and healthy. A key directive of her work is to understand the psychological skills and resources necessary to facilitate successful and positive sport experiences and how best to foster their development. Dr. Mosewich’s research portfolio includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to research. One area of particular interest for Dr. Mosewich surrounds self-compassion as a potential coping resource for athletes. The premise is that promoting self-compassionate frames of mind might promote acceptance, acknowledgement, and accurate evaluation of sport situations, and attenuate ruminative or avoidant approaches, better allowing an athlete to move forward in pursuit of their goals and highest possible level of performance.
Senior Lecturer, Exercise and Sport Psychology, University of South Australia Alyson is a Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology at the University of South Australia. She is passionate about all things physical activity and sport-related, and specialises in the area of group dynamics and social influence. Her research spans topics like group cohesion, the home advantage, social norms, and mental wellbeing in athletes.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary As a family physician, I have dedicated my career to caring for vulnerable patients, in particular refugees. In addition to clinical work, I advocate locally, nationally and internationally for refugees. I am the Medical Director of the Calgary Refugee Health Program and in my teaching role at the University of Calgary, I teach medical students and residents about immigrant and refugee health. In 2023, I was appointed as Chair of the North American Refugee Health Conference, an international conference attended by 750 refugee healthcare providers, academics, and policy-makers.
Assistant professor, UCL Alberto Prati is an assistant professor in economics at the University College London, where he teaches economic psychology. He also serves as a research fellow at the University of Oxford and as an associate researcher at the London School of Economics. He works on interdisciplinary issues related to improving wellbeing measurement, understanding how people form opinions, and promoting sustainability.
Lecturer in Sport Development, Western Sydney University Andy Grainger is a lecturer in Sport Development, Leisure, and Recreation at Western Sydney University. Prior to Western Sydney, he was a lecturer in Sport Sociology and Sport Development at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. Andy’s research and teaching focuses primarily on the globalisation of sport and the impact of neoliberal ideology and practices on local physical cultural meanings and practices. His current research explores the intersections of sport policy, sport diplomacy, and women’s football in Aotearoa New Zealand. Andy is a co-editor, with Adam Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, and Julie Brice, of the forthcoming collection ‘The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Politics, Representation, and Management.'
Associate Professor of Sport Leadership and Management, Miami University Dr. Adam S. Beissel is an Associate Professor of Sport Leadership and Management (SLAM) at Miami University (OH). Adam’s research and scholarship interrogates the political economy of international sport events and the geopolitics of sport. In 2023, he published an edited monograph, The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Politics, Representation, and Management in the Routledge Series on Women, Sport, and Physical Activity. The collection features chapters from leading international scholars and explores a range of issues as the world prepares for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
