Australasian Skill Acquisition Network conference

The Australasian Skill Acquisition Network (ASAN), formerly known as the Australasian Skill Acquisition Research Group (ASARG), holds an annual conference that brings together Skill Acquisition researchers, students, and practitioners. The ASAN conference combines keynote lectures, oral presentations and three minute thesis talks as well as practical sessions in the UTS Skill Acquisition laboratory. This year, the conference is hosted by the Human Performance Research Centre in their state-of-the-art facilities in the Rugby Australia/University of Technology Sydney building.The ASAN conference is the ideal way to catch-up on recent developments in skill acquisition, talk about your research with a group of like-minded peers or gain a better understanding of other topics related to practical applications of skill acquisition research in sport. As always, ASAN prides itself on its friendly atmosphere, where students and academics are encouraged to share their work with others. This year is no different! We are encouraging students, early career researchers and established academics within the field of skill acquisition, with a particular interest in skill acquisition in sport, to register their attendance.

Program

This year, we have targeted keynote and invited speakers who will share evidence-based approaches to skill acquisition in high performance and school sport (more information on the keynote speakers will appear upon completion of the conference programme). The invited sessions will be supplemented by 30 min and 15 min presentations that provide established and early career researchers and research higher degree students with an opportunity to present their work on skill acquisition in sport, or its practical applications in sport. Students are especially encouraged to present ideas and preliminary research as well as evidence-based ideas for future research or collaborative work. Finally, students can also opt to present their work in a 3-minute thesis presentation, where they are given three minutes to present the relevance of their work to the audience, and gain their first experience presenting in front of like-minded peers and academics.

Finally, UTS will also be hosting short practical sessions in the state-of-the-art simulation laboratory. These practical sessions are the ideal way to experience some of UTS’ current research in skill acquisition. Attendance for these practical sessions will be through separate registration, which will be made available at a later date.

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Registration and submissions

This is a FREE event. Attendees must register by 30 September 2018. Please note that the amount of registrations will likely exceed the amount of available spots. The organisation asks only attendees who are 100% certain to attend register for this event. Given the limited places available, it is possible that you will be placed on a waiting list. This means your registration is pending the withdrawal of other potential candidates.

We are seeking abstract submissions for long (30 minutes including 10 mins of questions) and short oral presentations (15 minutes including 5 minutes of questions), and 3 minute thesis presentations.

We will be seeking abstracts that fit within one (or more) of the following key themes:

• The application of skill acquisition research in sport
• Assessment and training of perceptual cognitive skill
• Assessment and training of domain-specific skill
• A constraints-led approach to skill acquisition in sport
• Self-discovery learning
• Implicit learning
• Talent identification and development

Registrations now open.

To make an enquiry, contact hprc@uts.edu.au.