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Biennial Sports Studies Conference moved to May 2016

For Release Upon Receipt - December 18, 2015

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. December 10, 2015 – Previously carded for January 13 -15, 2016, The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) second Biennial Conference on Sport Studies and Higher Education will now take place on May 18 -20, 2016.   

In light of the unavoidable change, The UWI has issued a call to all registered participants to contact the conference secretariat and update their registration status. 

While expressing regret about the inconvenience caused by the postponement, UWI St. Augustine Deputy Principal and Conference Chair, Professor Rhoda Reddock promised that the conference organisers are “committed to doing all within our power to facilitate registered participants making the new dates.” Professor Reddock also noted that there were plans to reopen registration to cater for new conference attendees. 

The second of its kind hosted by The UWI, the interdisciplinary sport studies conference is themed Physical Literacy: Gender, Science, and Sport for Development and presents an opportunity for critical discourse toward the development a science of sport in the Caribbean. It is expected to contribute to the research and scholarship on sport, benefit higher education sport programmes and by extension support the needs of athletes, sporting and fitness professionals, organisations and practitioners at all levels of society through a new evidence-based approach to sport.  

For more information on the 2nd Biennial Conference on Sport Studies and Higher Education please visit the conference website www.sta.uwi.edu/conferences/16/sportstudies or contact the secretariat at sportstudiesconference@sta.uwi.edu  or (868) 662-2002 ext 83808.  

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