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In his research, Werner Pitsch intends to focus on drug use in popular sports in the coming years and investigate how leisure activities that are otherwise beneficial to health can become a driver for risky health behaviour in the sense of sports-induced self-medication. He will also continue the long-standing empirical research at the Institute of Sports Science at Saarland University, which deals with deviant behaviour inside and outside of sport. This research covers a wide range of topics, including physical and sexual violence in sport, doping and drug abuse, bribery in the context of sports betting and competitions, corruption in sports associations and, most recently, lobbying among parliamentarians in Germany outside the realm of sport.
In his third research focus, Werner Pitsch intends to concentrate on social science agent models that can be used to analyse the careers of top athletes. To this end, he is seeking to collaborate with the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC) at Saarland University. In addition to sports sociology, Werner Pitsch's teaching also covers topics in social science methodology and sports economics.
About
Werner Pitsch studied sports science at Saarland University, graduating in 1990 with a degree in physical education. He supplemented this with a master's degree in sports science, general psychology and sociology. Werner Pitsch received his doctorate from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich in 1998. After several positions at Saarland University, the Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland Olympic Training Centre and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, he worked as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main from 2000 to 2005 and then moved to Saarland University. There, Werner Pitsch obtained his venia legendi in sports science in 2020 with his habilitation thesis 'On the intertwining of the benefits of doping and anti-doping phenomena'.
At Saarland University, Werner Pitsch heads the Sports Sociology and Sports Economics unit in the Department of Sports Science. He is currently chair of the examination board for sports science degree programmes and is involved in a working group to realign these programmes. In addition, Werner Pitsch is committed to making teaching even more internationally oriented as an ERASMUS+ subject coordinator. Werner Pitsch will take up the new professorship on 15 March.
Questions answered by:
PD Dr. phil. Werner Pitsch
Tel.: +49-681-302-3733
Email: we.pitsch(at)mx.uni-saarland.de
