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Nadège Rochat is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education (UFR STAPS) at University Clermont Auvergne (UCA), France. She is affiliated with the Activity, Knowledge, Transmission, Education (ACTé) research group and the Center for the Study of Transformations in Physical and Sports Activities (CETAPS). Her research focuses on activity analysis, enaction theory, and learning processes in sports contexts.
Dr. Rochat earned her Doctorate in STAPS (Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities) in 2017 from University of Lausanne and University of Rouen Normandy, under the supervision of D. Hauw and L. Seifert. Her dissertation was titled "Enactive analysis of activity in trail and ultra-trail: a multi-sourcing approach." Prior to her current position, she completed several post-doctoral fellowships including: 2021-2022: Post-doctorate, ANR-RIN OptiCog project, CETAPS and CRFDP Laboratories, University of Rouen Normandy; 2020-2021: Post-doctorate, ANR-DFG SALAMMBO project, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble INP, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes; 2017-2019: Post-doctorate, ANR DynACEV project, CETAPS Laboratory, University of Rouen Normandy.
Dr. Rochat's research interests center on the enactive and phenomenological approaches to understanding sports activity, particularly in trail running, climbing, and officiating contexts. Her work integrates mixed methods to analyze both behavioral data and lived experience. She investigates how athletes, referees, and coaches make sense of their activities through embodied cognition and environmental interactions. Her research has important implications for sports training, equipment design, and professional development in sports contexts.
Her work often focuses on the relationship between physical activity and cognitive processes, examining how movement and environment shape perception and decision-making. She has made significant contributions to understanding emotional dynamics in sports coaching, the appropriation of sports equipment, and the development of skills frameworks for sports officials.
Analysis of Dr. Rochat's publications reveals a consistent focus on enactive approaches to sports activity across diverse contexts including trail running, climbing, refereeing, and coaching. Her work demonstrates an evolving trajectory from analyzing individual athlete experiences toward examining professional transitions and skill development in sports officiating. A significant portion of her research examines the interplay between phenomenological experience and behavioral data, using innovative methodological approaches to bridge these typically separate domains of inquiry. Her recent work shows increasing emphasis on practical applications of enactive theory for sports training, equipment design, and professional development.
Dr. Rochat has been involved in several significant research projects including: Learning Dynamics: Behavior and Lived Experience. What Place for Exploration Strategies?; Supporting Referees' Professional Transitions: using a skills framework to co-construct tools and methods; Optimizing the understanding of cognitive control abilities through Stroop interference: behavioral, electrophysiological and fMRI study of its different components.
Dr. Rochat is an active researcher with numerous publications in high-impact journals including Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Processing, and PLoS ONE. Her work demonstrates strong collaborative networks with researchers across France and internationally.
