On November 18, Waseda University’s Health Promotion: The Joy of Sports and Exercise Unit held a mini-workshop with visiting faculty member, Associate Professor Dr. Kevin Filo of the Griffith University, Australia. This mini-workshop was conducted in a hybrid format at the Higashi Fushimi campus (face-to-face) and online (real-time). There were 15 participants, mostly students, in the classroom at the Higashifushimi campus and 12 participants online, including some from other universities.
Dr. Kevin Filo Professor Seiichi Sakuno
First, Professor Seiichi Sakuno of the Faculty of Sport Sciences introduced Dr. Filo, who then began his lecture.
The workshop, titled “Research Program for Leveraging Sport and Charity Amidst a Changing Landscape,” featured a slide presentation of Dr. Filo’s recent research efforts.
In particular, Dr. Filo shared research related to the usefulness of sports donations and the donor’s behavioral psychology, and the audience thought about the relationship between previous research and Dr Filo’s research. The prospects and issues regarding characteristics of donors for online communication such as active DX promotion and the management of sports donations for Z-Generation were also presented.
Yuanyuan Cao, a Doctoral student who attended Dr. Filo’s workshop, provided the following comment and her impressions:
I was not familiar with charity sport events before, but after the presentation of Dr. Filo, I found that charity sport is a very interesting topic, and it could be related to a wide range of sport-related topics. My research interest is sport consumers’ behavior on social media. Dr. Filo mentioned the rise of virtual events in charity, I think it’s a direction for the future study to examine the charity event on social media, and the effect of social media on charity events. It was a very helpful and interesting workshop.
At the end of the lecture, a question-and-answer period was held, during which questions were also asked by participants via Zoom.
A lively exchange of opinions took place throughout the session, making it a meaningful time of learning.
Members who participated in the mini-workshop