Our research covers a diverse array of topics, such as cultural practices among elite and amateur athletes and dancers, the nature of musical expertise, and embodied experiences in illness and disability. Despite this broad range of topics, our research is unified by a sensitivity to situation and context: We consider how socio-cultural factors shape the concrete practices and experiences that we investigate.
Members of MoCS also come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including sports science, the cognitive sciences, anthropology, and philosophy. Drawing on these backgrounds, we engage in empirical, theoretical, and methodological research, all of which are deeply intertwined.
We often draw, for example, on current research in philosophical phenomenology to gain new insights into the concrete experiences and practices we that we investigate. And, reciprocally, through our empirical research, we critically engage with ongoing theoretical debates in philosophy and the humanities.
Our diverse disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches make MoCS a unique center for the interdisciplinary study of sports, health, and performing arts.
Research areas
The research unit, Movement, Culture and Society (MoCS), is housed in the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at University of Southern Denmark. By drawing on approaches developed in the humanities and social sciences—especially phenomenology, ethnography, and cultural analysis—we study embodied experiences and movement practices in sports, health, and performing arts.
