What happens when a career you've dedicated your whole life to suddenly comes to an end? In this episode of Life of PIE, Onya sits down with Xuecong Wang, an alum from the Prosperity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship programme, and Aditi Mutatkar, a former athlete and founder of the Simply Sport Foundation, an organisation dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by athletes when they retire from professional sports, offering them the necessary tools and guidance for a successful career transition. Together, they explore the challenges athletes face when transitioning out of their sports careers. Drawing from Xuecong’s research and Aditi’s grassroots work supporting athletes, they discuss the impact of balancing sports with academia, the lack of infrastructure for athlete career support, and the vital need for career transition assistance programs. Hear how the right preparation can help athletes transition successfully beyond their playing years.

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11/12/2024

Centre for Oral Health and Performance We promote oral health in sport to enhance the performance, overall health and wellbeing of athletes. We engage in high-quality, cross-cutting research. We collaborate with a wide range of clinical and academic disciplines and connecting with athletes, sport and exercise medicine/science professionals, sport organisations, sport funders, policy makers and industry. We have extensive expertise in both clinical research and research synthesis (systematic reviews). As part of UCL, we collaborate with a wide range of clinical and academic disciplines and particularly closely with the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH). Furthermore, microbiology and materials science research at UCL Eastman is world-leading. We use these skills to design high quality research to investigate the issues of oral health and to develop effective interventions.

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8/14/2018

This film forms part of the Museums as spaces for wellbeing online course which can be accessed via UCL ExTend. The film explores the benefits of working in partnership externally by Mansfield Museum in order to develop and deliver health and wellbeing provision for their local community

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4/30/2018