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On the 24th of June 2011 Victoria University (VU) celebrated the
opening of its A$68.5 million state-of-the-art Sport and Learning
Precinct at its Footscray campus in Melbourne, Australia. This
cutting edge facility is the home of the new Institute of Sport,
Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), which itself was established
in February 2010, with a simple but focused vision of being a
global leader in sports, exercise and active living research.
The facilities at ISEAL are highly impressive and would be
coveted by any athlete, coach, researcher or sports bureaucrat.
They consist of a sport and learning precinct that houses 29 new
laboratories which include motor learning and skilled performance
labs, exercise physiology labs, motor control and bio feedback
labs, sport and exercise biochemistry and molecular biology labs
and finally biomechanics labs.
ISEAL is led by its two directors, Professor Hans Westerbeek
(Professor in Sport Business) and Professor Mike McKenna
(Professor in Exercise Physiology) with research being led by the
latter. Within ISEAL research programmes of Sport, Exercise and
Active Living are coordinated by Research Leading Professors
David Bishop (sport), Glenn McConell (exercise science), and
Remco Polman (active living). This concentration of human and
capital resources delivers a critical mass that allows the University
to produce world leading research and teaching programmes
in sport, exercise science and active living, putting them in an
enviable position to achieve their original vision of being a global
leader in the industry.
ISEAL has been at the forefront of thinking about the whole life
cycle of participation, active living and high performance and the
role research has to play in the sports, exercise and active living
landscape.
ISEAL understands the true value of partnerships and has
established links with a wide range of national and international
sports organisations, research facilities, governments and
universities. These partners have been quick to realise the
potential value that ISEAL can offer to them in respect of
achieving their own targets. An example of this is the recent
partnership with the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and the
world renowned Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). VU is the only
Australian University with a formal partnership with these bodies.
The partnership includes research, joint projects, appointment
of joint professorial and research staff and AIS use of VU sport
science laboratories.
ISEAL’s work includes basic research for organisations such
as the Australian Research Council and the National Health
and Medical Research Association and applied and consulting
research for government agencies, NGOs, international sporting
bodies, national sporting bodies, professional sporting teams and
non-profit organisations in the sport and health industries.
Therefore ISEAL aims to provide services and products to its
customers based on a robust foundation of data, innovative
thinking, high-quality analysis and collaborative relationships that
deliver technological and ground breaking mutually advantageous
outcomes. Because this is a whole University ideology, ISEAL
has an organisational structure that can permeate through
multi faculty disciplines to deliver a research scope resulting in
World Class outcomes and offers a value position that is hard to
replicate.
For more information on the work of ISEAL contact Chris
Rawlinson, Marketing Manager at Institute Of Sport, Exercise &
Active Living (ISEAL) Victoria University.
Mob: +61 0478 401548; Tel: +61 3 9919 9172
E:
chris.rawlinson@vu.edu.au
W:
vu.edu.au/iseal
Victoria Uni opens state-of-the-art
sport and learning precinct
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