Hi ##firstname##! Here we are again with a short update!

What you'll find in this edition:

1. 📰 Our latest infographic on maximizing impact as an academic
2. 👥 SUMMIT - Check out the team behind the scenes
3. 👥 SUMMIT - Sponsorship opportunities!
4. 📅 New Masterclass: Improving your marketing and communication skills
5. 🎙️ Sports Tech Research Podcast: Olli Tikkanen about his learnings from the Physical Activity Researcher Podcast

As always, find out about some recent job opportunities & interesting reads!

Maximizing impact as an academic with a personal impact development plan👇

SUMMIT - Check out the team behind the scenes!

No event without a motivated team of professionals behind it. This team is very excited to offer a high-quality & enjoyable program that can create true value for all attendents. Read about all the different profiles of the team here!

And of course: block 14-15 September 2022 in your agenda! 😉

SUMMIT - Sponsorship opportunities...

Interested to be included as an organization in the STRN Summit 2022? These are a couple of sponsorship deals we're offering in order to get visibility before, during and/or after the event. 

If you want to be one of our sponsors, get in touch with us soon! 

📅 New Webinar: Improving your (practical) marketing and communication skills

Is it your goal to promote your lab, field of expertise, project, or (potential) startup? Feeling unsure where to start?

Then this might the workshop you need! Expert, Julie Vandenhouweele from MySueno is going to answer these questions during a session which consists of two main parts: Marketing Strategy & Content Strategy. 

Be there on Tuesday, 28 June from 14:00 to 17:15 (UTC+1 timezone).

We just published our latest podcast episode (talking in this series with other podcast hosts...).

Olli Tikkanen is the host of the Physical Activity Researcher podcast, where he speaks to experts in physical activity, exercise, and health to find out about the latest research findings. In the interview we did with him, he talks about:

• which research is still missing
• the difficulties of creating a business
• the importance of having start-up experience in order to have realistic expectations
• ways to combine research & industry in order to come up with the right solutions
• the implementation and adoption side of tech
• the importance of understanding the customer well and knowing how the technology will work precisely in the client’s daily work or life

Listen now! 

Job opportunities

The EXOS Human Performance Lab is a small but growing team that conducts research into sports performance, wearables, and corporate wellness programs. They are growing at both new test sites and also have remote roles. Here are 3 interesting roles that need the perfect match:

1. Remote Role for a Research Data Manager
2. On-site role for a Research Associate (Ashburn, VA)
3. On-site role for a Research Coordinator (Mt View, CA)

For more info, drop our member Karl Etzel (VP Human Performance Lab) a message! 

Interesting reads 👀

Industry insights

💍 Oura Is Launching a Study to Understand Physiological Changes during the Menstrual Cycle

💰 Feeling good: The future of the $1.5 trillion wellness market

🚲 Strava and Tour de France announce three-year partnership

⚾︎ Baseball's New CBA Has Gambling Implications, as MLB Cannot Sell a Player’s Training Data

🖥️ This is it… a comprehensive list of wearable data accessible through APIs today

Research news

⌚️ Recommendations for Defining and Reporting Adherence Measured by Biometric Monitoring Technologies

👨🏾‍⚖️ Heart-rate wearables data may be less accurate for people with darker skin

👩🏼‍💼 Study to Understand Physiological Changes during the Menstrual Cycle

📱 The Use of Wearable Sensors for Preventing, Assessing, and Informing Recovery from Sport-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries

🎓 The Effect of Academic Entrepreneurship on the Production of Scientific Knowledge