Qingsong Han is a joint doctoral student who studies at the research unit Sport & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Chinese Wushu College at the Shanghai University of Sport. He obtained his Master degree in Ethnic Traditional Sports at Henan University in China. In his doctoral research, he focuses on wushu internationalization policy by analyzing policy discourses and policy theory. Prof. dr. Marc Theeboom is the promotor of his research. 

Marc Theeboom holds a number of positions on the university and faculty level. He is member of the Bureau of the Research Council of the university, chair of the research committee of the Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy. He is chair of the research group Sport & Society (SASO).  

His research primarily focuses on educational and policy-related aspects of (youth) sport in general and specific target groups in particular (e.g., socially deprived youth, ethnic minorities, elderly). He has a special interest in the analysis and evaluation of ‘sport development’ programmes in which sport is regarded as a social instrument and a means of community development (‘sport-plus’). A number of his research projects related to the analysis of specific aspects of a community sport stimulation programmes in various parts of Flanders. He is promoter of a number of doctoral studies with regard to the social value of sport. 

Since the beginning of 2012, Marc is the promotor-coordinator of the Flemish Policy Research Centre for Sport including researchers from the Universities of Brussels, Ghent and Louvain. He has also become involved in collaborative work with a growing number of partners abroad (e.g., UK, the Netherlands, China, United States, UK, Finland, Norway, Australia). Contacts have also resulted in invitations to act as a chair, presenter or co-organiser during international meetings, conferences and working groups on the topic of sport and social integration.

To date, Marc Theeboom has authored and (co)authored more than 20 books (mostly in English or Dutch) and he has also an extensive number of peer reviewed articles, chapters in books or proceedings as well as presentations during international scientific meetings on this topic.

Dong Zhu

Shanghai University of Sport

A Bradshaw is a Research Fellow in Palliative Care within the Wolfson Research Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull. His research focuses on understanding the role that physical activity may have on health, well-being, and quality of life in patients with advanced and chronic diseases. He also researches the implementation of person-centred outcome measures into routine palliative care practice and using data from these measures to drive service-wide improvements in palliative care. He has experience in using qualitative research methods and methodologies within health service research contexts.

L Walker is Professor of Health and Social Work Research. She is a medical sociologist and registered social worker with expertise in the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions, particularly autoimmune conditions. She is an experienced qualitative researcher who has worked in both UK and southern African contexts. She is Associate Director of the Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research, University of Hull.

E Borgstrom is a medical anthropologist and lecturer at the Open University. Her specialist area in research and teaching is death and dying, with an emphasis on end-of-life care. She uses anthropological skills to disrupt the normative concepts in end-of-life care by foregrounding people’s everyday experiences and the structural and discursive elements that shape how care is provided. She is a co-editor of Mortality, an international, interdisciplinary journal for death studies and plays an active role in the American Anthropological Association’s Dying and Bereavement special interest group, which is part of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

M. Burke is an Associate Professor in Exercise and Health Psychology in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on the role of physical activity for disease management and prevention, and the development and implementation of behaviour change interventions in clinical practice. She is particularly interested in active lifestyles for managing the adverse effects of cancer and improving quality of life for people nearing the end of life. She is also interested in the advancement of qualitative research methods within clinical and healthcare services research. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and an executive board member of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise.