Joe Noormets
Senior Lecturer of Sport Sociology
School of Natural Sciences and Health
Introduction
Joe Noormets graduated in 1991 from the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute (today Tallinn University) as a physical education teacher. Worked 1991-1993 at Tallinn Pedagogical University as an assistant and teacher in the department of athletics. In the years 1995-2001, he was the chief specialist in the Estonian Central Sports Union. After defending his master's degree in sports sciences in 1998, he started working as a lecturer at Tallinn University; from 2021, a senior lecturer in sport sociology. He is a lecturer at the vocational training of Estonian sports coaches and a member of the Estonian Olympic Academy. His research interests lie in the border area of social sciences and humanities. The research focus is on the human body, sport, and body culture(s). In addition, he deals with the topics of sport ethics, relying primarily on approaches based on virtue ethics.
Main tasks
Courses: sociology of sport, sociology of body, history of sport, theories of leisure and recreation, qualitative research methods, virtue ethics in the profession (PE teacher, sports coach), organisation and administration of sport
Supervising the BA and MA theses
Research
Vocational continuing education of coaches
Areas of research
sociology of sport
sociology of the body
body culture(s) studies
moral and ethical aspects in sport
embodiment of heroic ideals in the Homeric epics