Wrap up of European College for Sport Science Conference in Rimini July 1-4, 2025

I was delighted to give a keynote at the first plenary session of the 30th European College for Sport Science conference held in Rimini July 1-4th, 2025. The plenary session was titled “PS-PL01 – DSD- and trans-athletes in the female category: scientific and ethical controversies” and I shared the floor with Professor Yannis Pitsiladis. The session was chaired by Professor Sigmund Loland, Norwegian School for Sport Sciences, and Professor Erica Gobbi, University of Padua, Italy. Direct message me if you are interested in receiving the slides of the presentation.

I was also thrilled that my PhD student Giulia Sesa, a member of the Doctoral Training Network in Sports Integrity and Ethics (DAiSI) was awarded the 2nd prize for the ECSS Young Investigator Award out of 353 submissions! Congratulations Giulia for an excellent presentation titled “Discrimination or Protection? Investigating the Ethics of Limiting Participation in Sports on Public Health and Individual Well-being Grounds”.

#ecss2025 #wearesportscience #dsdathletes #keynote #younginvestigator #giuliasesa

Interview for Bloomberg on ‘Enhanced Games’

I was recently interviewed by Pete Guest for a long in depth piece discussing Enhanced Games. The full piece can be accessed here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-27/the-enhanced-games-aims-to-be-an-olympics-where-doping-is-the-point?embedded-checkout=true

#enhanced games #doping #spiritofsport #technooptimism #valuealignment

Panel discussion “Intersex and sport eligibility” Thursday May 8th 730 pm CET

Delighted to announce I will be participating on May 8th in an online panel discussion hosted by Psychosocial Studies in Intersex International, an informal network of around two hundred psychosocial researchers and clinicians and inclusive of people with variations of sex characteristics.

Thursday 8th May 7.30-9.00pm Central European Time

Other confirmed speakers: Peter Hegarty, Professor, School of Psychology & Counselling, The Open University, UK; Benjamin Moron-Puech, full Professor of Law at the University Lumière Lyon 2; Alun Williams, Professor of Sport and Exercise Genomics, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).

More details will be posted here soon:

https://psiinternational.wixsite.com/home/events/3f0378a5-7b90-4236-bfb4-56ac130f4001

To sign up for this event please email Peter Hegarty peter.hegarty@open.ac.uk