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Wilmarié du Plessis

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:09:36 +0000

Wilmarié du Plessis BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 16:09

Kinderkinetics

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Wilmarié

du Plessis

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Wilmarié du Plessis has been a lecturer at the NWU since 2012. She completed her doctoral studies 2021/22 at the NWU. Wilmarié teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students and is responsible for supervising students with their master’s and doctoral studies. Furthermore, she is involved in community projects relating to the field of Kinderkinetics.

She has several publications in National and International journals and have also attended and presented at National and International conferences. She was elected as the Vice-President of Training of the South-African Professional Institute for Kinderkinetics in 2022.

Her interest includes the neuro-motor development of young children, health-related factors influencing motor development and the effect of the environment on children’s motor development.

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Laura Gray

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:05:34 +0000

Laura Gray BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 16:05

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I think I started to run before I could walk and have been fascinated by human movement and sports performance from a young age. I decided to satisfy my curiosity by studying sport science. After obtaining my Bachelors in Adapted Physical Activities and Health and working as a coach my intrigue for human movement science simply increased. I went on to study an Honours in Strength and Condition and Rehabilitation followed by a Masters in Human Movement Science and Research. It was at this moment that my mentor planted the research seed that would lead me to pursue an academic research career. I was awarded a Regional bursary to carry-out my PhD research focusing on the psychophysiological mechanisms at play in the relationships between fatigue, stereotypes and exercise among people living with chronic disease and more specifically HIV/AIDS. The multi-disciplinary approach of my PhD research allowed me to gain knowledge and expertise in both psychological mechanisms and methodologies as well as physiological, and more specifically neuromuscular, literature and methodologies. My research and multiple collaborations have led to the publication of over ten articles in international peer reviewed journals and a number of communications at international and national conferences including the ECSS in 2016 (Vienna). My passion for research and coaching led me to invest in teaching and I soon enjoyed sharing the learning experience in sports science. I have been teaching for over five years and was also involved in training PhD and Masters students and co-supervise Masters theses. I am a team worker and enjoy a challenge. I now have the privilege of continuing my research and academic career at the NWU collaborating with the Physical Activity, Sport and Recreation (PhASRec) research area. I am part of a range of research projects including qualitative, quantitative and experimental research.

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Barry Gerber

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:01:13 +0000

Barry Gerber BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 16:01

Kinderkinetics

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Barry

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I’m Mr. B.P. Gerber, a young, dynamic academic and researcher from the North-West University in South Africa. Currently I am a Senior Lecturer and Manager of the Clinic for Kinderkinetics at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus.

I started my academic journey at the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2008 where I completed my undergraduate degree in Human Movement Science (BA. HMS) in 2010 where after I completed my Honors degree in Kinderkinetics (BA. Hons. Kinderkinetics) in 2011 at the North-West University (NWU) as well as my Masters degree (MA. Kinderkinetics) in 2014 and PhD (Human Movement Science) in 2018. My focus area is growth and maturation and motor development of children and adolescent. I work on a daily basis on a practical level with children aged 0-13 year, also training students on the development of children. Therefore my work environment, breaches the link between research and practical implementation. Publications currently: 7 peer-reviewed 3 national/ 4 international.

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Potchefstroom Campus, Building K3, Ground floor, G13

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018 299 1773

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Clément N. Gambelli

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:55:13 +0000

Clément N. Gambelli BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 15:55

Sport Sciences

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Clément N.

Gambelli

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After obtaining my bachelors in Sport Science in Nice (France), specialising in physical conditioning and coaching, I had the opportunity to do my Honours degree in Pennsylvania (United States of America). Developing a keen interest for human movement science I started my research activities during my Master’s degree focusing on biomechanics and motor control of gait. I specifically analysed the gait of patients with Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD). I pursued my interest in research by doing a PhD at the Laboratory of Physiology and Biomechanics of Locomotion in Belgium. My PhD Thesis entitled: “The effect of gravity on the motor control of landing” was financed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Prodex (Belgian Scientific Politics) in order to perform experiments during parabolic flights aboard an A300 ZERO-G in Bordeaux (France). During my PhD, I learned basic mechanics and electronics to build a complex experimental set-up in collaboration with an engineer (Arsalis) and a technician. I also learn to use biomechanics equipment and to program for data analysis. The results of my PhD have been communicated under the form of three articles in highly-ranked journals and at several international and national conferences allowing me to express my writing and oral communication skills. Next to research, I have been investing time and effort in managing master theses of students and helping PhD students with their research. I have also been teaching human movement sciences for the past three years as a non-tenure track Professor at Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France) and now as a newly appointed senior lecturer in Health Sciences at the NWU. I mainly teach exercise physiology, biomechanics and anatomy. I enjoy collaborating and working as a team and am currently co-supervising a Master student and working on multiple research projects with the Physical Activity, Sport and Recreation (PhASRec) research area at the NWU.

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Henriëtte Hammill

BELINDA BANTHAM — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:31:46 +0000

Henriëtte Hammill BELINDA BANTHAM Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:31

Biokinetics

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Henriëtte

Biokinetic Program Leader

Hammill

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I am a qualified Biokineticist and performed post-graduate research in focus area of Biokinetics, Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics. I enjoy the different fields of Biokinetics and have been fortunate to teach in the various fields of this profession. Exposure to different aspects taught me that my interest lies within the Biokinetics profession’s rehabilitation of sport and the orthopaedics. Currently I am teaching the modules, Orthopaedics (Honours), Research Methods and Biokinetics (third years) and fully enjoy the work I am blessed to do.

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Dané Coetzee

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:43:30 +0000

Dané Coetzee BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/22/2018 - 13:43

Kinderkinetics

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Professor

Dané

Coetzee

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Dané Coetzee is currently a professor in the School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus. Prof Coetzee pursued her academic career at the School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom Campus since 2009. Her teaching responsibilities at the NWU include modules on undergraduate and post graduate levels as well as guidance to several masters and doctoral students in the field of Kinderkinetics and Human Movement Science. Since May 2016 she’s been elected as the President for the South African Professional Instituted for Kinderkinetics (SAPIK) that is the professional body for Kinderkinetics (www.kinderkinetics.co.za). She has been representing South Africa as a member of the Future Leader Program (FLV) under Prof. Mingkai Chin’s and Prof Hans de Ridder’s advisory since 2016. As FVL, she first participated in Global Forum on Physical Education Pedagogy (GoFPEP 2016) held in Turkey, and was chosen to represent South Africa as a senior FLV at APCESS 2017 in Bangkok and BRICSCESS 2017 in Brazil.

Prof Coetzee is further part of the Kinderkinetics team at the North-West University that conducts workshops to teachers, disadvantage coaches and other Kinderkineticsts to improve and promote the importance of early childhood development. Several national and international publications have been published from her pen and she currently serves as reference for a national and international journal respectively. In 2017 Prof Coetzee received Y-rating from the National Research Foundation Researcher (NRF).

Her research interests focus on early motor development, visual stimulation, ADHD, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), learning related problems, sportsvision, early intervention for children, physical activity and physical fitness, effect of technology on children’s physical activity levels and physical fitness levels.

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C/o Thabo Mbeki and Meyer Drive, Building K3, Office G10

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018 299 1792

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Ben Coetzee

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:39:29 +0000

Ben Coetzee BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/22/2018 - 09:39

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Ben

Coetzee

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I received a BSc in Human Movement Science in 1994, a B.Sc Honours degree in Sport Science (Cum Laude) in 1995, a MSc in Human Movement Science (Cum Laude) in 2000 and a PhD in Human Movement Science in 2010 from North-West University (NWU). During my years as a graduate and post-graduate student I served as a lecturer assistant and temporary lecturer for modules that ranged from coaching science to anatomy, exercise physiology and exercise science for 1^st up until honours students in the School for Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science (BRS). I also served as manager of the Institute for Sport Science (ISSD) and temporary lecturer for the Tina Schöltz Potchefstroom Academy for beauty therapists in the same time period. In 2000, I was appointed as junior lecturer in the BRS (NWU) up until 2003 when I was promoted to lecturer. In 2003 I was also appointed as acting director of the ISSD and programme leader of the Sport Science honours programme (until 2015). In 2010 I was promoted to senior lecturer and in 2013 to associate professor at the NWU, a position that I currently hold. I currently also serve as program leader for the Sport Program in the Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation Focus Area. I have served as Sport Science consultant for various individual and team-related athletes regarding their conditioning programs. My primary focus in research is on different conditioning and recovery techniques, match analysis, heart rate variability and recovery, etc. I have contributed to articles in a wide range of general magazines such as You, Huisgenoot and Woman’s running as well as newspapers such as Beeld, Die Herald, Die Burger, Witness and Volksblad. I also served as a participant on several radio programmes, on RSG and Radio Today as well as TV programs on the named TV stations: Carte Blanche on MNET and Debra Deel on Kyknet.

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Office number 210, 2^nd Floot, Building K21, Potchefstroom Campus

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018-2991803

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Anita Elizabeth Pienaar

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:01:48 +0000

Anita Elizabeth Pienaar PERTUNIA THULO Thu, 08/07/2014 - 11:01

Kinderkinetics

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Professor

Anita

Pienaar

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Anita Pienaar holds a Ph.D. in Human Movement Science with specialisation in pediatric exercise science (Kinderkinetics). She is a Professor in the School for Biokinetics, Rrecreation and Sport Science at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) where she also acts as the program leader for the Kinderkinetics program with teaching duties to post graduate students in Sport Science and Kinderkinetics.

Prof Pienaar was the founder of the Kinderkinetics academic program which developed since 1998 under her supervision into a significant career opportunity for young people specialising in the field of pediatric exercise science. The academic program is currently part of the training of 4 tertiary institutions in South Africa. The SA Academy for Science and Art honoured Prof. Pienaar in 2012 with an honoury medal for ‘exceptional contribution to science’ in her field.
She is an active researcher holding a National Research Foundation Researcher (NRF) rating since 2005. She was selected as the most productive researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences, but also in the Focus Area of PhasRec on various occasions since 2008. She reached the milestone of 100 publications in accredited journals, has written two chapters in peer reviewed books and have produced many textbooks for students in her field of expertise, Fifty masters and PhD students have already completed their studies under her supervision. Her most valuable research outputs in the last 10 years relates to the determining of the status of growth, health and motor development of children residing in South Africa, the effects of diversity of our population on the development of children in different areas, and the testing of intervention programs for different special conditions such as childhood obesity, HIV, physical inactivity and motor deficiencies among children. She is curently the principle investigator of 2 longitudinal studies, the NW-child study investigating the health and motor development of primary school children, and a longitudinal analyses of growth and development during the mid-adolescence period and the relationships that it has with sport performance.

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(018) 299 1796

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Hans de Ridder

GÉNA THOMPSON — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:27:07 +0000

Hans de Ridder GÉNA THOMPSON Wed, 06/18/2014 - 16:27

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Director

Hans

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Professor Dr. J. Hans de Ridder is a full professor and director of the School of Human Movement Sciences at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is currently a C1 rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. His current H-Index is 19. He was the receiver in 2002 of the Stals Award and again in 2011 the Albert Strating Award for Preventative Medicine from the South African Academy for Science and Art for his exceptional contribution to kinanthropometry in Africa. In 2010 he reached a milestone in his research career, when his 50th post graduate student (M’s and Ph.D.’s) graduated. Currently a total of 66 students have completed their masters or doctoral studies under his guidance. He was the author or co-author of a total of 84 research articles published in subsidised academic journals as well as severla books and chapters in books. For the period 2003 to 2021, he was an invited and/or keynote speaker on more than 30 occasions at conferences all over the world.

He was the Secretary-General of ISAK from 2002 to 2008 and then the President from 2008 – 2014 and is the current immediate Past-President. He is also an ISAK-accredited Level 4 criterion anthropometrist, one of just a few in the world. He has been involved in the teaching of ISAK courses for many years. He was honored in 2014 with life membership from ISAK at the ISAK World Conference in Murcia, Spain. He is only the 5th person in the history of ISAK to receive this prestigious award. He is the co-author of the 2011 edition of the ISAK manual “International Standards for Anthropometric Assessment”. Since the book was published in 2011, it was already cited more than 2500 times.

He was the president of GoFPEP 2014 which was presented at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is currently the Assistant Editor of the African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance (AJPHERD).

He is the founder Secretary-General and the current President of the BRICS Council of Exercise and Sport Science (BRICSCESS) that was founded in at the Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Delhi in India on 17 October 2015. He was a keynote speaker at the Inauguration BRICS Conference of Exercise and Sports Science (BRICSCESS 2017) in Santos, Brazil in December 2017. He has also been the president of the BRICSCESS 2019 conference which was held in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2019.

Hans is married to Elsie, a maths teacher, and they have four children: Elé, De Wet, Maret and Melinda. They are a very close family and enjoy travelling together. They especially love travelling and camping in Africa. The motto of the family is to make a difference in people’s lives and to always be kind and friendly to other people. They live in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

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