Submission deadline: ASPIRE Student Research Bulletin

Our Mission

The mission of the Applied Sports Psychology and Injury Research and Education Lab (ASPIRE) is to create valuable learning experiences, produce interdisciplinary research, and deliver education to improve client outcomes. ASPIRE offers students enrolled in our bachelor’s and master’s in kinesiology programs that aim to enter any health, wellness, and/or fitness-related field with hands-on learning research, education, and resource development.

Theme: Sleep and Recovery in Athletes

Submission Due: Sunday, April 14th, 2024, at 11:59pm.

Article & Submission Guidelines

• Review a peer-reviewed published article related to sleep and recovery in athletes.

• Select an article published between April 2021 and April 2024.

• Please include the details of the article you have chosen in the shared Google Doc, and make sure to check that no one else has already selected the same article.

You can access the document through the following link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gtn1TDzzQuzdmA43wYiDTL8eEANzW9_tV83doJBeDc4/edit?usp=sharing 

• Include the paper title, publication and publication date in your review.
• Please also include a title for your article.
• Your article review should be approximately 375-400 words excluding title, paper title, publication, and publication date.
• The font for the headings should be Helvetica and the font for the body should be Roboto.
• To submit, e-mail your article to Krissel Quinones-Estrada (Bulletin editor) to kquin7@uic.edu.
• Include “ASPIRE Lab Submission” in the subject line of your submission email.
• Include a current headshot, your first name, last name, major, and a contact e-mail address in the body of your message. This information will appear in the newsletter (unless you ask to be anonymous).
• Include the citation of the peer-reviewed article your submission summarized in the body of your message.
• We will work with you via email to edit and proof your submission prior to publication.
• Articles should be sent as an attachment, in either Word (.doc or .docx), Please do not send in .pdf format.
• Related pictures are highly encouraged to be submitted along with your article.
• Images must fall into one of these categories: [1] your own work—i.e. you took the photograph; [2] freely licensed; [3] public domain; [4] fair use.
• Attach images to the same email as your article submission.
• Include a short (1-sentence) caption of each image.

For submission questions, contact bulletin editor: Krissel Quinones-Estrada