Welcome to the Associate Professorship of Didactics in Sport and Health!
We conduct intervention research in the fields of health and education. By designing living (environments) and using competence-oriented approaches, we enable people to lead active, healthy and sustainable lifestyles. In this way, we want to make a relevant contribution to a sustainable society.
Youth’s perceptions of a city or neighbourhood’s walkability are important for determining the physical activity (PA) friendliness of their…
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Health inequity (HI) remains a major challenge in public health. Improving the health of children with low socioeconomic status (SES) can help to…
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In August and September this year, our colleague Friederike Butscher visited the working group of Sport, Lifestyle and Health at UMC Amsterdam…
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Shortcomings in the area of open-access publishing are repeatedly criticized and discussed in the scientific community. Meanwhile, there are…
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At the conclusion of the Active City Innovations project, the final workbook (Download here) was recently published. The aim of this workbook is to…
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The practice of early sport specialization, in which children and adolescents focus on a single sport at a very early age and neglect other…
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Office workers (OWs), which account for around 40% of all employees in Germany, are at risk of low levels of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA)…
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Social interaction is associated with many effects on the psychological level of children such as mental health, self-esteem, and executive functions.…
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Non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease (NAFLD) is the fatty degeneration of the liver with more than 5% hepatocytes without other identifiable causes, such…
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The university years are marked by drastic changes to living arrangements, academic responsibilities, increased social obligations, and newfound…
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