FACULTY RESEARCH GOALS
- To enhance health and athletic performance through research and innovation;
- To be internationally renowned for our world class activities in a number of strategically important centers of excellence, whilst simultaneously demonstrating excellence across a broader range of disciplinary areas;
- To be recognized internally and externally for the provision of outstanding research leadership, infrastructure, facilities, and support, and be admired for our creativity in developing and supporting new talent and initiatives;
- To substantially increase our share of external research grant income, in order to provide a sustainable funding base for our research;
- To attract increasing numbers of high-quality postgraduate research students, and provide them with a stimulating and supportive research environment and training;
- To have active engagement with a number of key strategic partners from across the Region, Europe and the world and be increasingly sought out by potential collaborators, partners, funders, policy makers, and the media, so that we increasingly shape the external research agenda;
- To increase participation in competitive, non-competitive and social sport and active recreation activities at all levels;
- To provide opportunities for achieving excellence in sporting performance;
- To ensure access to quality and sustainable infrastructure for the delivery of these activities.
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- Physical activity level and its relation to general health
- Sports related performance indicators and use of technology
- Match-induced fatigue effect in soccer performance
- Soccer performance based on match statistic
- Sports Medicine
- Drop-out rates in sport and the participation of females in sport
- Personalized medicine and the role of physical activity in health and disease
- The retirement reasons of athletes in Kosovo
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
UBT library consists of two separate spaces: spaces, which contained space for books and the space for reading. This separation enables the delivery of a more efficient service, opportunity for access to books and, at the same time, tranquility necessary and sufficient in the reading room.
The current physical library is depicted with its stacks of 250,000 printed books, one of the biggest libraries around, as well as its e-books and publisher databases. The librarians present work with physical books and digital material, including cataloguing and circulation, are illustrated at the left of the sphere named ‘core knowledge’. UBT students have access to different digital e-Libraries, such as BIONE, EBSCO HOST, IMF, Cambridge Journals and JSTOR. Recently UBT, has acquired access to the well know data bases Web of Science and SCOPUS.
Most of the research activities within the Faculty of Sport and Movement Science will be conducted within Sports Medicine and Performance Testing Laboratory.
Moreover, based on the fact that Sport Science is a multidisciplinary field, other research projects will be realized using also the other laboratories part of the UBT research infrastructure, in the following list:
- UBT Chemistry lab
- UBT Physics Lab
- UBT Biochemistry Lab
- UBT Anatomy Lab
- UBT Physiotherapy Lab
- UBT Physiology Lab
- UBT Psychology Lab
- UBT Biology Lab UBT Microbiology Lab
- Nutrition Lab.
- UBT Computer Programming Labs
- UBT Software Testing Lab.
- UBT Data Processing, Statistics, Modeling and Simulation
RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The faculty seeks international cooperation in research through the following means:
- Participation in contractual regional and international research projects as a leading implementation partner and as a full or guest implementing member;
- Participation in contractual projects leading to the creation of original datasets or in refining and modernizing data for the purposes of research in sport science;
- Supporting non-contractual mobility through conferences, symposiums, roundtables, lectures, publication events;
- Supporting and promoting co-authorship and co-presentation of publications and research reports with colleagues from international universities;
- Supporting in-coming mobility of the most established researchers in the various fields of political science;
- Sponsoring open-access publications where necessary;
- Supporting peer-reviewing engagements of academic staff in the international scene;
- Supporting major book projects through friendly adjustment of teaching and administrative engagement expectations for lecturers, and even sabbatical leaves in foreign universities where cooperation takes place.
List of international cooperation in research and teaching:
- University of Rome “Foro Italico”
- University of Vienna – Center of Sport Science and University Sports,
- University of Sports of Tirana
As part of the activities to increase the international presence, the Faculty of Sport and Movement Science under the umbrella of UBT has applied for a capacity building project in the field of higher education in ERASMUS +. The consortium consists of 6 partner universities from the Western Balkan Region and 2 EU HEI, University of Rome “Foro Italico” and the University of Vienna. UBT, the Faculty of Sport and Movement Science is the leader of the project. In addition, we have applied also for a ICM project together with University of Palermo, Italy.