National Institute of Sport Studies

The University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies (UCNISS) aims to develop and expand teaching and research activities in sport studies and to strengthen relationships with business, government, art and design – in order to promote career pathways for coaching practitioners; strengthen existing relationships with the Australian Sports Commission and the Australian Institute of Sport; expand existing relationships with sporting bodies, including Capital Football, Basketball Australia/ACT, South East Regional Academy of Sport, ACT Academy of Sport, ACT Brumbies Rugby Union, Canberra Raiders Rugby League and Swimming Australia; build new partnerships with organisations such as the Australian Paralympic Committee.

UCNISS aims to develop this work in cooperation with the University College and the faculties of Applied Science, Arts and Design, Business and Government, Education, and Information Sciences and Engineering.

A work in progress

Over the coming months we will be building a web presence for UCNISS. Presently our members and associates are surveying the Internet for material, organising and adding to it as we go, and considering what position we should occupy in relation to everything else online. What we find and develop is being sent to the individual web logs of our members and associates, and aggregated on http://www.ucniss.net. We will then focus our editorial capabilities in highlighting high quality and important information and events. Our dreams currently include live events for the sporting sector, podcasting, an open academic journal, research projects, and various other forms of publishing that help people in the sporting sector with what they need.

If you can help us in this effort, we are using the ucniss tag across social media to draw in content and announcements. If you use twitter, send us stuff using #ucniss in your posts. If you use Delicious be sure to include descriptions and tag bookmarks with ucniss. On Youtube and blogs, use the ucniss to tag what you find. Doing this will help attach content around the UCNISS concept, and help us consider our steps towards our dreams.

If you'd prefer to contact us directly, send an email to ucniss@gmail.com