Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports

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Sport, Individual & Society

Teacher of the Year: A living legend, whether in glitter or gladiator garb

He is a living legend in his department – known to occasionally sport a gladiator costume or sequin jacket and electric guitar. Not a speck of dust has settled on this epic lecturer after 38 years of teaching. To the…

New book about dance crossing borders

New book focuses on how dance can contribute to ’crossing borders’ of very different characters: Between academia and arts practice, between dance and different school subjects, between cultures of different countries a…

International anthology of research papers Dance, Acces and Inclusion

was recently published by Routledge and edited by Associate Professor Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, contains contributions by 46 authors from 23…

New research collaboration about teaching of school children from Cape Town and Copenhagen

In 2017 the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, both University of Copenhagen collaborate with the Danish Cultural Institute, University of Cape Town School of…

Women and Sport in Latin America

Edited by Rosa López de D’Amico, Tansin Benn and Gertrud Pfister

TWIST & TWIN – Exploring identities in dance

Registration deadline is approaching. 1 May is the deadline to register as participant for the 13th World Congress of Dance and the Child International (daCi).

Book publication "A Guide to Third Generation Coaching"

Reinhard Stelters research on coaching now published by leading scientific publisher

The school moves into the forest

Do children get more physically active, happier with school, learn more, and do they establish better friendships in the class when the classroom is replaced by teaching in nature or in an urban environment one day a…