In the interactive session, the postgraduates came up with the questions about how the students of University College Dublin balance the relationship between the academic On the afternoon of November 5th, at the invitation of Dr. Zhou Lijun, the vice director of the physical department of the school of education, Professor John Shuttleworth, the director of the Department of Sports Management, the College of Physical and Health of University College Dublin, came to give a lesson about sports sociology to the postgraduates who majored in sports humanistic sociology, the physical department of the School of Education.
Professor John Shuttleworth specialized in the operation of sports industry and sports social issues from the perspective of sociology and management. Meanwhile, he was also the manager of many sports companies in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, which led him a practitioner in sports management who combined theory with practice.
To the topic of “Ethics in Sport: Implications for the Sport Coach & Manager”, Professor John Shuttleworth demonstrated the existence of corrupt practices, doping, racial discrimination and other moral abnormalities in the field of sports, from the perspective of athletes, coaches and managers. Based on the adverse consequences caused by immoralities from a large number of cases, he proposed the responsibility and significance the coaches and managers should take in the establishment of correct sports ethics.
In the interactive session, the postgraduates came up with the questions about how the students of University College Dublin balance the relationship between the academic and training, the impact of the sports career to life, the current situation of Chinese football and so on, which Professor Shuttleworth answered patiently.
