EUJAPA Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Florentina Hettinga

Head of Department, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Area of expertise: Sport, physical activity and health across the lifespan, wheeled mobility, disability sport, fatigue and exercise, psychophysiological mechanisms of exercise regulation


Assistant Editor

Prof. Kwok Ng

Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuania; University of Limerick, Ireland; University of Turku, Finland

Area of expertise: Health promotion and adapted physical activity, disability sport, psychology of exercise, adapted physical education, technology in learning


Section Editors

Prof. Debbie van Biesen

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium

Area of expertise: health enhancing physical activity, neurodevelopmental disabilities, disability sport, evidence-based classification and coaching

Prof. Aija Klavina

Laboratory of Sports and nutrition research, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia; Department of Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, Lithuanian Sport University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Area of expertise: Physical exercise in health care, adapted physical activity, adapted physical education, disability sport, psychology of exercise

Prof. Sebastian Ruin

Head of Department of Human Movement Sciences, Sport and Health and Head of Research Group Movement and Sport Pedagogy, University of Graz, Austria.

Area of expertise: Sport and movement pedagogy, body and physicality in education, diversity and inclusion in physical education and sport, disability in physical education, curriculum studies.

Assoc. Prof. Jolanta Marszalek

Faculty of Rehabilitation, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education, Warsaw, Poland

Area of expertise: Sport, adapted physical activity, health, neurodevelopmental disabilities, evidence-based classification

Prof. emerita Marit Sørensen

The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Area of expertise: Sport Psychology, Motivation, Integration

Advisory Editors

  • Prof. Emeritus Pauli Rintala, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Prof. Martin Kudlacek Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • Prof. Yves Vanlandewijck KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

  • Maria Campos; University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Esther Hartman; University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • P David Howe; University of Western Canada, Canada
  • Yeshayahu Hutzler; Zinman College for Physical Education and Sport Science, Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center, Israel
  • Maria Kosma; Louisiana State University, USA
  • Javier Pérez-Tejero; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Raúl Reina; Miguel Hernández University, Spain
  • Alba Roldán; Miguel Hernández University, Spain
  • Kandianos Emmanouil Sakalidis, Northumbria University, England
  • Brett Smith; University of Durham, England
  • Jane Jie Yu; Zhejiang University, China

Proofing team

  • Pauli Rintala
  • Eline Blaauw
  • Lars Bouten
  • Thomas Rietveld
  • Italo Vinicius
  • Lucille Wilson