Amanda J. Visek, PhD
@ajvisek
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Sport scientist-practitioner having a ball leveraging evidence-based #funmaps #funintegrationtheory
Washington, D.C.
Joined May 2011
Want to know what makes sport fun? Check out the newest infographic illustrating findings from #funmaps studies that engaged #soccer ⚽️, #icehockey 🏒, and #basketball🏀 players in distilling exactly what makes playing the game so fun! #funintegrationtheory
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If you watched @CocoGauff pull off an excruciating 2nd rd. @usopen win, ask yourself: Didn’t Gauff have “fun”? According to the latest “FUN MAPS” study by @ajvisek conducted with junior tennis players, the answers is a resounding “yes!” Here’s why: https://t.co/EjQfvVE8un
usatoday.com
Organizations, coaches, parents and athletes can design for fun and perhaps like the women's tennis star, realize it when they least expect it.
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Incredibly honored 🙏🏼 to receive the 2023 GW Distinguished Teaching Award for my pedagogical approaches to teaching undergraduate @GWpublichealth students & graduate @AASPTweets @JASPRSportPsych students the art & mechanics of writing & publishing in the discipline. ☺️
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Back in Sweden for #funmaps work & some play, too! Thank you @anderswahlstrom for making fun a focal point of Svenska Ishockeyförbundet’s player-centered athletic development. Excited for our translational science efforts to be piloted in clubs across the country. 🇸🇪 #swefunmaps
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**Excited to release newest #funmaps infographic** in conjunction w/ the #ITF #WPC. What makes playing team #sports #fun for athletes U9-U19 with updated main findings from #football (soccer), #icehockey, & #basketball. Tennis findings soon to come! #funintegrationtheory
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The 2022 WPC programme has now been launched – with the first set of speakers confirmed. Take a look and stay tuned in the lead up to the event as we reveal more speakers. Don’t miss out - register at https://t.co/kcBjuIbOZ2
#WPC2022
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Thrilled to be awarded by the Ministry of Sport to identify barriers & motivations of sport participation among Saudi Arabia youth. Research findings will be used to inform policy & programming to engage more girls & boys in health-promoting sport activity. @GWSportMngt
🟠 The George Washington University Team 🟠 Public Health 🟠 Principal Researcher 🟠 Dr. Amanda Visek 🟠 3 Research-assistants
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🟠 17 winning research proposals 🟠 16 major universities 🟠 23 principal investigators List of Principal Investigators winning the Prince Faisal Bin Fahd Award for Sports Research 🏆👇.
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Students, please consider submitting your rigorous research to JASPR, a publishing and student-centered training platform established to harness and promote students’ academic growth and research development.
Submissions for @JASPRSportPsych journal are open! This peer-reviewed publication is focused on undergraduate and graduate student-led scholarly work. Submissions include primary and secondary, basic, applied, and developmental research. Learn more: https://t.co/BW8XJZVLpK
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My @SundayShare10 is to highlight @ajvisek's work on Fun maps. Fun drives intrinsic motivation and engagement. Is fun central to your environment ? #Sundayshare
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Metaphor is a powerful teaching and learning tool. And in research, where the climb is often long and arduous, @DoctorSizzle’s #ResearchMountain is helpful for summiting. If you’re a research scholar feeling stuck, this #openaccess paper can help you find your way.
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This was the absolute most fun! 🤩 Biggest thank you to @anderswahlstrom and @swehockeyse, extraordinary exemplars of using science to drive practice and practice to drive the science needed to discover best practices. #funmaps
Thankful having the opportunity to have @ajvisek with us at @swehockeyse during these weeks to develop our joint research on what’s fun in player development!
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@_WWPIS Yes but when you look at the fun determinant rankings you will see that ‘competing’ comes way higher than ‘winning’. Important not to conflate these things I would say. This conversation with @ajvisek explains digs into this in more detail. https://t.co/pHPzu98trK
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Brilliant thread @AlexJSarama…the key here is to recognise that fun isn’t frivolous, fun isn’t ‘messing around’. Fun stems from working hard and being committed and trying to build stronger connections. Just ask @ajvisek!
😀 Thread on the importance of FUN and how this is misconstrued, particularly in the youth sectors of big pro clubs in Europe. This creates a perpetuating cycle which other youth coaches then emulate, damaging the experience players have of our sport.
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Great discussions tonight on @ussoccer D Licence (Blended) Course with @MalcolmHBrown @ENYSoccer Why do players play sport? what makes playing football FUN? @ajvisek #FUNMaps Who is the player in front of you? The importance of social-emotional wellbeing, love for the Game
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Bra tankar här av @UlfHall60 kring kravställning och hur vi bygger en ny generation hockey spelare. Att utvecklas, känslan att kämpa tillsammans och känna tillhörighet i ett lag är det som forskningen säger (@ajvisek) att barn upplever träning/idrott som kul. #talentdevelopment
Spännande tankar om Svensk damhockey signerat Uffe Hall @hockeysverige
https://t.co/b3fgrYxzwM
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In this OPEN ACCESS paper, published by JASPR, @DoctorSizzle's #ResearchMountain makes its official debut in the literature. Aspiring sport academics, we, @MABSportPsych and @ajvisek, invite you to read and learn how you can climb #ResearchMountain!
jaspr.scholasticahq.com
By Monna Arvinen-Barrow, Amanda J. Visek. This article pays forward publishing pearls of wisdom learned while navigating the research publishing landscape.
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