Within the scope of the EventRights project between the Research Executive Agency, under the powers delegated by the European Commission, and the Technical University of Munich, Iris Perey has spent four months at the University at Buffalo to collaborate on research projects related to embodiment, sports (with particular interest in yoga), and eating behavior. Together with Dr. Catherine Cook-Cottone, Professor in the Department of Counselling, School, and Educational Psychology, Iris Perey investigated the effectiveness of a program based on yoga and psychoeducation. Further, she co-authored a conceptual overview on eating disorders, embodiment, and yoga for a special issue on yoga and eating disorders, which will soon be published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. Her stay ended mid March 2020.
The study- and research-related stay abroad allowed Iris Perey to gain valuable insights in the academic environment of a U.S. university with particular expertise in the fields of sport to promote women health, to exchange knowledge with other scholars, and to extend her academic network. In addition, this experience also offered her the unique opportunity to get in touch with athletes from the University at Buffalo university sport teams and to learn about professional sports in the United States of America in relation to several diversity- and human rights-related issues (topics that are heaviliy debated in the U.S. at the moment).
Contact:
Chair of Sport and Health Management
Iris Perey
Uptown Munich Campus D
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62
80992 Munich
Phone: +49.89.289.24641
Fax: +49.89.289.24642
email: iris.perey(at)tum.de