Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The merged research group MOVE (= former BEGE+BEPR+MODI groups) was founded in 2020, with Prof. Dr. Eva D’Hondt as current chair, and is part of the Department of Movement and Sport Sciences (BESW) of the Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy (LK). The ‘Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance’ research group unites the enthusiasm and expertise of young and more experienced researchers, focusing on 3 prominent lines of research.
1. Health
Research into:
- Health-related behavior, including the measurement and analysis of physical activity, sedentary behavior, physical fitness, exercise/movement patterns, diet and sleep.
- Determinants to promote physical activity and to reduce sedentary behavior, both at the individual and environmental level.
- Determinants of nutritional habits and specific dietary patterns, both at the individual and environmental level.
- Energy-balance related behavior linked to well-being in different populations, with specific attention to critical transition periods during the life course.
- The economic evaluation of clinical protocols and health interventions.
- Body composition, growth and development.
2. Performance
Research into:
- Factors influencing sports performance from different perspectives:
- Biomechanical analysis (2D/3D) of sport specific movements.
- Technical and tactical aspects of different sports and disciplines.
- Nutritional aspects linked to sport specific body and performance characteristics.
- Physical and psychological aspects linked to different sports and disciplines.
- Growth and morphologic development in relation to sport specific performance.
- The development and assessment of effective training programs.
- Facilitating and supporting progress and achievements in elite sport as well as in sport participation at every level for different target and age groups.
3. Motoriek en didactiek
Research into:
- The promotion of ‘physical literacy’, linked to aspects of motor skills, pedagogy and didactics, both at the level of the individual, (educational) practice and (health) policy.
- Motor competence as building block for a physically active lifestyle, including the development and validation of new tools to assess actual and/or perceived competence in different movement contexts.
- The role of motor coordination (in combination with growth, development, maturity, body composition, etc.) in the context of health in the general population, and more specifically injury prevention within (elite) youth sports.
- Fundamental and applied biomechanics as well as motor control in various target populations.
- Pedagogical and didactic methods in the interest of creating more effective, efficient, motivating and activating learning environments promoting movement and health.
- The assessment of (independent vs. supervised) self-study and integrated forms of evaluation within health-related educational programs.
Keywords
- Movement
- Nutrition
- Health
- Performance
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
-
Senne Aelbrecht
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Movement and Sport Sciences - Temporary replacement AAP, Academic
- Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance
Person: Researcher
-
Jeroen Aeles
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance
- Movement and Sport Sciences
Person: Researcher, Professor
-
Dirk Aerenhouts
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance
- Movement and Sport Sciences - Practice assistant, Academic
Person: Researcher, Professor
-
Andre Barel
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance
- Movement and Sport Sciences - Academic, Undefined
- Vriendenkring VUB - Emeritus
Person: Sympathiser, Researcher
-
Heike Beckers
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance
- Multidisciplinair Inst. Lerarenopleiding - Pedagogical employee
- Movement and Sport Sciences - Pedagogical employee, Academic
Person: Researcher
-
OZR4177: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UGent, FONDERIE Evelyn
15/05/23 → 14/05/27
Project: Fundamental
-
OZR4129: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UGent, MERTENS Lisa
18/01/23 → 17/01/27
Project: Fundamental
-
EUAR146: TPS : The gender-transformative power of sports for and by students
Zinzen, E., Derom, I. & Schaillée, H.
9/01/23 → 8/01/25
Project: Applied
-
EUPOM123: Erasmus+ KA2 : Aquatic Literacy For All Children - ALFAC
De Martelaer, K. & D'Hondt, E.
16/08/22 → 15/08/25
Project: Applied
-
EUPOM113: Erasmus+ KA2 : Competencies by Health technology Education in Prevention & Rehabilitation Intertwined (CHEPRI)
1/11/21 → 31/10/24
Project: Applied
Research output
-
505 Change of Direction Asymmetry Magnitude Decreases According to Chronological Age in Male and Female Elite Youth Tennis Players: Results from an 11-year longitudinal study
D'Hondt, J., 5 Jul 2023.Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster
File -
A Healthy Plant-Based Diet in Chronic Low Back Pain: the Solution?
Quiroz Marnef, A., Malfliet, A., Deliens, T., Clarys, P. & Nijs, J., 24 Jan 2023, (Unpublished).Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster
-
Changes in maternal and paternal body composition during the transition to parenthood (TRANSPARENTS)
Versele, V., Stas, L., Aerenhouts, D., Deliens, T., Clarys, P., Gucciardo, L., Bogaerts, A. & Devlieger, R., Jan 2023, In: Obesity. 31, 1, p. 225-233 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Comparing Vaginal and Endometrial Microbiota Using Culturomics: Proof of Concept
Vanstokstraeten, R., Callewaert, E., Blotwijk, S., Rombauts, E., Crombé, F., Emmerechts, K., Soetens, O., Vandoorslaer, K., De Geyter, D., Allonsius, C., Vander Donck, L., Blockeel, C., Wybo, I., Pierard, D., Demuyser, T. & Mackens, S., 21 Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24, 6, 13 p., 5947.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
Continuous relative phases of walking with an articulated passive ankle-foot prosthesis in individuals with a unilateral transfemoral and transtibial amputation: an explorative case-control study
Lathouwers, E., Baeyens, J-P., Tassignon, B., Gomez, F., Cherelle, P., Meeusen, R., Vanderborght, B. & De Pauw, K., Dec 2023, In: Biomedical engineering online. 22, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 14.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)10 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
-
Co-Supervisor of MSc Thesis: Effect of group vs home based GLA:D therapy for individuals with knee osteoarthritis: A pilot study (Student: Jonas Schäublin, BFH)
Alexander Schurz (Supervisor) & Jan Taeymans (Supervisor)
30 Jan 2023 → 1 Jul 2024Activity: Other › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
-
BMC Public Health (Journal)
Evert Zinzen (Editor)
2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
-
Ethical application
Jan Taeymans (Supervisor), Melanie Liechti (Contributor), Alexander Schurz (Contributor), Arturo Quiroz Marnef (Contributor), Heiner Baur (Contributor), Anneleen Malfliet (Contributor), Jo Nijs (Contributor), Peter Clarys (Contributor), Tom Deliens (Contributor), Ron Clijsen (Contributor) & Nathanael Lutz (Contributor)
24 Feb 2023Activity: Other › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
-
SELF-REFEREEING IN ULTIMATE FRISBEE DURING THE YOUTH ULTIMATE CHAMPIONSHIP SELF-REFEREEING IN ULTIMATE FRISBEE DURING THE YOUTH ULTIMATE CHAMPIONSHIP
José Pedro Amoroso (Speaker), Luis Pedro Coelho (Contributor), Henrietta Papp (Contributor), Felipe Costa (Contributor), Efstathios Christodoulides (Contributor), Wouter Cools (Contributor), Zoltán Erdősi (Contributor), Jr James E. Moore (Contributor) & Guilherme Eustáquio Furtado (Contributor)
May 2023 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
File -
KAGO-meeting
Yanni Verhavert (Chair)
20 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar