Title: A multidimensional approach to skilled performance

Dr Lyndell Bruce is Senior Lecture in Sport Science at Deakin University and a member of the Centre for Sport Research. She has multidisciplinary research interests including sports analytics, expertise development, athlete development and understanding training structure. Dr Bruce uses a range of technologies (including wearables, applications and software) and analytic techniques to offer insights.

Title: Skill acquisition in ballet: Tradition, challenges and innovation

Dr Katia Ferrar is the Research Fellow for La Trobe University and The Australian Ballet Partnership. Her role is to facilitate and engage in research to optimise performance and promote the health and wellbeing of dancers, and to share the findings with the dance community, elite sport and the broader community globally. Katia is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and has worked in both clinical and academic roles.

Title: Challenge points in motor learning

Nicola J. Hodges is a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada in the School of Kinesiology. Originally from the UK, she developed a passion for sport and experimental psychology, and she has continued to live out these passions through the study of motor behaviour in Canada over the last 25 years. It is at the University of British Columbia that Dr Hodges runs the Motor Skills Laboratory (http://msl.kin.educ.ubc.ca/), where she studies the mechanisms of motor skill learning. Her particular research focus is on processes involved in watching and learning from others (action-observation) and how practice should be best structured to bring about long-term enhancement of motor skills. Her research has been funded by the three tri-council agencies in Canada, she has been involved in sport-consulting and she has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. She is the co-editor of “Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory & Practice” (published by Routledge, now in its 3^rd edition).