Faculty 11 - Subject Sport/Sports Science
Sports science in Bremen
Since April 2024, the Department of Human and Health Sciences has been reorganised with great enthusiasm. It started with the professorship for Sport Education and Sport Didactics (Prof Dr Ina Hunger and her team). The calls for the other two professorships (‘Exercise Science’ and ‘Sport, Exercise and Health Promotion’) were accepted. The appointments will be announced soon.
An Institute of Sport Science will be established, which will deal with sport and exercise in the context of education, upbringing and health in the course of research, teaching and transfer and which stands for open-mindedness and diversity.
Research
The three professorships each have a special focus according to their specialisation.
The professorship of Sports pedagogy and didactics is primarily focused on topics relating to school sports and children's physical activity and sports socialisation and focuses on issues relating to movement, sport and the body in the context of diversity and social inequality. Read here the interview with Prof Dr Ina Hunger in Der Spiegel about her current research project, in which she is looking at mental health in physical education.
The research areas of the professorships ‘Exercise Science’ and ‘Sport, Exercise and Health Promotion’ will be outlined soon.
Study programmes
From winter semester 2024/25, Sport Science will start with two degree programmes: Teaching at grammar schools/secondary schools and primary school teaching.
The degree programmes are designed to be innovative, reflective and future-oriented and are thematically linked to the field of school. They take into account the diversity of sport and exercise cultures as well as the diversity and challenges of growing generations. From the winter semester 2026/27, an extracurricular Bachelor's degree programme will be added that focuses on health-related issues and fields of action. You will find a brief description of the degree programmes in this information broschure.
Networking
The new sports science team is very interested in an intensive exchange with representatives from science, education, teaching, politics, sports organisations and health-related institutions as well as all other people who see interfaces with sports science topics. It strives for lively cooperation for research and theory-practice transfers - both in the region and with international partners.
Please feel free to contact us! We look forward to hearing from you!