2008 Keynote and Invited Speakers
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Coleman Griffith Lecture Keynote
Glyn C. Roberts
Title: The Forgotten Values of Elegance, Parsimony, and Conceptual Coherence in Sport Psychology Research
Glyn C. Roberts currently serves as the Professorial Chair of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Sport Science in Oslo. He was a Professor of Sport Psychology in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois for 25 years from 1973 to 1998.
Roberts' research focuses on the motivational determinants of achievement and he is particularly concerned with the motivation of children in the competitive sport experience. He has been on research grants for over 2 million dollars, including being a PI on an NSF grant to investigate research ethics in science. He has over 200 publications, including 10 books and over 50 book chapters, and has made over 350 presentations of his research worldwide. Roberts has also made over 50 invited keynote presentations at International Congresses of Psychology and Sport Psychology. He has several distinguished scholar awards, including the Honour Award of the ISSP (1997), and is a Distinguished Scholar of NASPSPA (1998).
Roberts is a Past President of NASPSPA and the European Federation of Sport Psychology. He is also Founding President of Division 12 (Sport Psychology) of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He served as the Secretary-General of ISSP for 8 years, and was on the Executive Committee of IAAP. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, a founding Fellow of AASP, and is one of only two sport psychologists who have been elected a Fellow of IAAP. His service includes associate editor, member of the Editorial Boards of most of the major journals in the area, and Founding Co-Editor of The Sport Psychologist.
Roberts is a certified consultant of AASP, was a consulting sport psychologist for the United States Gymnastic Federation for 10 years, and has consulted with Olympic and sport organizations as well as with individuals and sport teams.
Social Psychology Keynote Presenter
Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
Title: The Influence of Shifting Time Horizons on Human Aging
Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. For more than twenty years, the National Institute on Aging has supported her research and in 2005 she was honored with a MERIT award, which extends this support another decade. Dr. Carstensen is best known for her theory on socioemotional selectivity, a life-span theory of motivation.
With her students and colleagues, she has published more than 100 articles and chapters on life-span development. Her most current empirical research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence cognitive processing. Laura Carstensen is a fellow in a number of professional organizations including the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Carstensen has received numerous honors including Stanford University's Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Richard Kalish Award for Innovative Research. In 2003, she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow and received funding for her research on "Extended life expectancy in the 21st century." In 2006, she received the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Sciences Section).
Carstensen received her B.S. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University.
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Performance Psychology Keynote
Terry Orlick
Title: Focusing for Excellence
Terry Orlick is a world-renowned leader in applied sport psychology, focus training, and performance excellence. A former gymnastics champion and coach, Dr. Orlick has served as a high-performance focus coach for 35 years to thousands of Olympic and professional athletes in more than 30 different sports. He served as a performance enhancement consultant and focus coach for athletes competing in 8 Summer and 8 Winter Olympic Games, and also worked closely with coaches, teachers, children, and business executives.
Former president of the International Society for Mental Training and Excellence, Terry Orlick has authored more than 20 books, including the most recent In Pursuit of Excellence, 4th Ed. (2008). He has also created innovative programs and books for children and youth to nurture Positive Living Skills, including Cooperative Games and Sports (2006).
A graduate of Syracuse University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Alberta, Dr. Orlick is a Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and founder of the free on-line Journal of Excellence. He holds distinguished service awards from numerous Olympic and Education associations, as well as certificates of merit from governments, universities, sport organizations and schools for distinguished service to the community. He has given lectures and workshops on the pursuit of personal and performance excellence in virtually every corner of the world. Terry Orlick is a nature lover who enjoys activities like trail running, kayaking, skiing, and experiencing daily simple joys with his children, students, friends, and family.
Health Psychology Keynote
Nanette Mutrie
Title: Promoting Physical Activity for Public Health: The Challenges for Psychology
Nanette Mutrie, Ph.D., is a Professor of Exercise and Sport Psychology at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland and is also a Visiting Professor at the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow. Dr. Mutrie has researched ways of increasing active living both in clinical populations and in the community with a particular interest in the mental health benefits that may be accrued. Current funded projects include the Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration [SPARColl funded by NHS Scotland; www.sparcoll.org.uk]; the promotion of walking with the use of pedometer for older adults in primary care [Chief Scientist’s Office]; the evaluation of the impact structural changes on walking and cycling [Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council- in collaboration]; and encouraging physical activity for black and ethnic minority children.
Dr. Mutrie is an Accredited Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) and is an Honorary Fellow of that organisation. With her students and colleagues, Dr. Mutrie has published over 100 articles on exercise behavior and intervention strategies. The 2nd edition of Nanette Mutrie’s book (co-authored with S. J. H. Biddle), Psychology of physical activity: Determinants, well-being, and interventions, has just been published. Nanette Mutrie was a member of the Scottish Physical Activity Task Force and contributed to the Scottish Government strategy document ‘let’s make Scotland more active’. She was chair of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] programme on physical activity and the environment [www.nice.org.uk].
Nanette Mutrie received her Ph.D. on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Pennsylvania State University.
Distinguished International Scholar
Celia Brackenridge
Title: Sex, Lies, Shock, and Role: Sport Psychologists as Agents of Athlete Welfare
Celia Brackenridge is a Professor of Sport Sciences (Youth Sport) and Director of the Centre for Youth Sport and Athlete Welfare at Brunel University in London. After teacher training and degree study at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, she taught Physical Education in a Hampshire secondary school. She has spent the past 28 years in higher education, first at Sheffield Hallam University and then at Gloucestershire University. Brackenridge ran her own research-based consultancy company for four years before returning to higher education at Brunel in 2005.
Dr. Brackenridge is a former captain of the England and Great Britain Women’s Lacrosse teams and World Cup coach. Celia Brackenridge has maintained a keen interest applying research to practice. She is an accredited BASES Interdisciplinary researcher, and a child protection tutor for Sportscoach UK and BASES.
Celia Brackenridge serves on the Research Committee of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers and also chairs the Research Task Force of the NSPCC/Sport England Child Protection in Sport Unit. Dr. Brackenridge is author of Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport (2001). She is currently working on research projects with UNICEF and with the English Football Association. In 2007 Celia won both the Distinguished International Scholar Award of the American Association for Applied Sport Psychology and the US Women's Sports Foundation Darlene Kluka Research Award.