Are you wondering what the SPRINT Project team have been up to lately? Last week, SPRINT Project Post Doctoral Researcher Dr Georgia Bird flew to New Orleans in Louisiana, USA, to attend the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) annual international conference.
Image description: A photo of the Miltenberger Houses in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The annual conference was held from the 6th to the 8th of June, at the Sheraton Hotel.
Whilst at the NASPSPA conference, Georgia presented her research on emotion regulation and student-athlete mental health. Through this research, she investigated whether the emotion regulation strategies that student athletes report using explain the stability of their mental health profiles over the course of an academic year.
The presentation was part of a symposium entitled 'Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Mental Health in Sport and Performance Settings: Directions for Researchers and Practitioners'. The symposium was organised by Morgan Milne, PhD Researcher in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and Dr Katherine Tamminen, Associate Professor in Sport Psychology at the University of Toronto. Other presenters in the symposium included Morgan Milne, Dr Katherine Tamminen, and Dr Catherine Sabiston, Professor of Physical Activity and Mental Health at the University of Toronto.
Image description: A photo of Dr Georgia Bird presenting at the NASPSPA annual international conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Image description: A photo of Dr Georgia Bird presenting at the NASPSPA annual international conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Watch out for an upcoming blog post from Georgia where she will share details about her recent research, and her experiences of presenting it at the NASPSPA annual international conference in New Orleans!
Interested in finding out more about the SPRINT Project's research into sport and mental health? Check out our sport and mental health project page here, where you can find out about the different topics that we have focused on, and access academic papers that Georgia and other members of the team have published!
Image credit: Dr Georgia Bird.
Written by Dr Sally Reynard, Post Doctoral Researcher in the SPRINT Project.
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