Eighth Annual Symposium on health, performance and exercise sciences

Welcome to Eighth Annual Symposium on health, performance and exercise sciences

Program: HES ***mandatory course ****(also relevant for BEN, HCHPO)

Description:

This PhD course will be organized for the 8th time as a continuation of previous symposiums on exercise sciences, physical activity, and human performance. This course will provide the audience with insights into research projects within the health and exercise sciences aiming to understand and/or promote physical activity during school and leisure time, at work and at the high-performance level. The course will introduce the PhD students to insights that are relevant across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities with a focus on development, implementation and evaluation of health and exercise research with different populations. Lectures will cover recruitment and involvement of research participants, mixed methods for gathering and analysing health outcomes of exercise, improving exercise efficiency and mental performance, along with novel technologies in sports, and injury prevention in sports and at work. Internationally recognized speakers as well as speakers from Aalborg University will be invited. A special emphasis will be given to the speaker-student interaction. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site in due time. It will be possible to follow the PhD course remotely (all lectures will also be transmitted online).

Literature: A reading list with relevant papers and book chapters will be announced before the course.

Prerequisites: The students participating in this course should have basic knowledge about health and exercise sciences and work with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods.

Evaluation: Evaluation will be announced at the course.

Organizer: Associate Professor Rogerio Pessoto Hirata

Co-organisers: Professor Pascal Madeleine and Professor Sine Agergaard

Lecturers: Organisers, invited national and international speakers and speakers from the Dept. of Health Science and Technology and Aalborg University Hospital

ECTS: 1

Dates: 2, 3 June 2026

Place: Aalborg University

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 25

Deadline: 12 May 2026

Important information concerning PhD courses:

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course. We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk. When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.