HMS NEWS
2008 Major Conference Award for HMS Young Investigator
Human Movement Studies PhD student, Emma Beckman, recently won the Young Investigator Award at the 2008 International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS), held in Guanzhou, China.
Emma (pictured) received the award for her paper titled " Evaluating the validity of activity limitation tests for use in Paralympic classification". The paper was co-authored with her supervisor, Dr Sean Tweedy (left) and was against some stiff competition. They are pictured with Walter Thompson, a member of the International Paralympic Committee Sports Science Committee.
The conference was a joint initiative of the four pre-eminent international sports organizations: the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE), the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). With more than 1,500 delegates from 40 different countries attending the conference there were 350 oral presentations delivered, 1,000 poster presentations and a series of workshops in the wide area of sports science, sports education and sports medicine.
Well done, Emma!
Other School staff to attend the conference were Head of School, Professor Doune Macdonald, Professor Wendy Brown and Dr Sean Tweedy. Doune was a keynote speaker.
[Story and photo courtesy of the Faculty of Health Sciences Bulletin]