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La Trobe’s Liam Lenten has brought an interesting economics idea into sport – advocating a superannuation-style scheme to deter the use of performance enhancing drugs among athletes. And he has taken ideas from sport to help teach economics, producing a fascinating series of videos which include football, soccer and Olympic analogies to explain common economic […]
July 24, 2012
La Trobe University sport journalism students will get a rare behind-the-scenes look at how the world’s greatest sporting event – the Olympic Games – is reported, produced and televised. Sport journalism head, David Lowden, is working as a studio producer for Foxtel on Australia’s games coverage alongside thousands of the world’s leading sports media personnel […]
July 12, 2012
The ‘Olympics and World Peace’ is a historic and lofty ideal negated by the ‘win at all cost’ mentality of modern sport. The best way to ‘place the Olympics at the service of peace-building’, if such a thing were possible, says La Trobe University sociologist Ramón Spaaij, is to emphasise values of sportsmanship, universal participation, mutual respect […]
February 14, 2012
La Trobe journalism and sports management students were the first to meet Mick Malthouse today at the inauguration of his role as the University’s first Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow. The former Collingwood coach has joined La Trobe on a three-year part-time appointment to support Vice-Chancellor John Dewar in areas such as student aspiration and leadership, strengthening schools in La Trobe’s […]
September 5, 2011
Little understanding of family and community connections: Indigenous athletes within the AFL need more culturally relevant and specialized support to maximize their performance according to a recent study by La Trobe University’s Centre for Sport and Social Impact. Associate Professor Matthew Nicholson and colleagues looked at seven of the ten Victorian AFL clubs that agreed to […]
September 5, 2011
Victory at University Games – and women’s AFL football grand final: La Trobe University for the second year in a row has won the Southern University Games. With five teams tying for gold medals, the University was awarded the overall champion’s John Campbell Trophy after a count-back of silver and bronze. A team of 250 students […]
July 24, 2012
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