UNIL at the heart of sports practice and performance
Nested in the heart of the Olympic capital, the University of Lausanne is home to more than a hundred researchers working on sports issues on a daily basis. Thanks to its geographical proximity to the many international federations that have long been established on the Arc lémanique, UNIL has established itself as a key player in research into top-level sport. But that's not all.
One of the University of Lausanne's centres of expertise is the Institut des sciences du sport, which has been up and running for around ten years now, as well as a research platform launched in 2016 that brings together scientists from all of its faculties whose research focus is sport.
Inherently an interdisciplinary theme, sport is studied at UNIL through the prism of governance and the issues surrounding major events, the image of sport and the role of sport in society; the image of research conducted at the Graduate Institute of Public Administration, and through the microscope of medicine. He is also interested in the various disciplines of the humanities, with research into sport in antiquity and the place of women in sport. Not forgetting the involvement of the criminal sciences and the expert reports they are called upon to produce in the context of major gatherings, around cases of doping, for example.
Deeply in touch with the times, UNIL is also interested in anticipating the development of new disciplines and digital technologies, in order to understand their contours, their impact on the environment and their impact on society;understand their contours, from practice and its physiological effects to economic issues, while maintaining a strong link with the practice of sport for and by everyone, thus including public health issues in its research spectrum.
Different perspectives on sport
In this video, three scientists explore research into sporting issues from the perspective of their work and disciplines: Lucie Schoch, ssociologist and teaching and research fellow at thesport sciences Institut, specialising in gender inequalities in sport; Stefano Canepelle, professor, criminologist conducting work around the themes of corruption and intrigue in sport; Emmanuel Bayle, professor a specialist in sports governance, institutions and organisations.
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Equality
Lucie Schoch
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Sports organisations
Emmanuel Bayle
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Corruption in sport
Stefano Caneppele
Research centres, institutes and groups
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Sport beyond performance (L'uniscope 649, November 2019, p.6-7)
Even at the very highest level, sport needs to be considered from a broader perspective than just performance. It is increasingly approached from the angle of education, health, infrastructure and its effects on the environment. A symposium, co-organised by Professor Fabien Ohl, offered an opportunity to discuss the knowledge produced on sport in the run-up to the 2020 YOG.
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Sport and emotions (Allez savoir ! n°72, May 2019, p.28-32)
On and off the pitch, athletes are subject to strong emotions that they must learn to manage in order to mobilise the right resources at crucial moments. Denis Hauw and Roberta Antonini Philippe, respectively associate professor and senior lecturer at the Institut des sciences du sport, show that there's no point in burying your head in the sand in this particular area.
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Olympic Switzerland (L'uniscope 649, November 2019, p.21)
Jean-Loup Chappelet, a professor at the Institut des hautes études en administration publique, is a great expert on sporting institutions, particularly the Olympic Games, and has also taken an interest in Switzerland as a unique place in the world for the administration of sport.
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Gender equality in sport (RTS, Sport première, 11 April 2020)
Women receive less media attention than their counterparts in the field of sport, and are also largely under-represented in the field of sports governance. Lucie Schoch, Senior Assistant at the Institut des sciences du sport, is trying to understand the obstacles to women's access to positions of responsibility in international federations and how to move towards greater equality.
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Balance ton sport (L'uniscope 640, January 2019, p.15)
Revelations of abuses in the world of sport erode its reputation and its virtuous values, such as fairness, discipline, perseverance and respect for others. Often singled out for the silence that surrounds it, the world of sport is increasingly equipped with useful tools for whistle-blowers, as Pim Verschuuren shows in his thesis at the Institut des hautes études en administration publique.
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Top GUNIL
Mathias Aebi, effects of oxygen deprivation and low pressure on the body. Mathias Aeby approached the Swiss Air Force to carry out his research. As a doctoral student at the Institute of Sports Science, he was able to study the effects of oxygen deprivation and low pressure on the body from the basement of the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Dübendorf.
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We're fighting less for the Olympics (L'uniscope 632, March 2018, p.12-13)
The awarding of major sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, is attracting fewer and fewer cities. According to Joël Pinson, a doctoral student in public administration, these major events are less popular than they used to be.
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UNIL launches its sports platform (L'uniscope 619, November 2016, p.14-15)
With more than 120 researchers from all seven of its faculties working closely or remotely on the same theme, UNIL launched its research platform dedicated to sport in 2016. Under the responsibility of Emmanuel Bayle, associate professor at the Institute of Sports Sciences, it aims to become an international benchmark.
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