Prünster Vera
Name: Mag. Vera Prünster, PhD
Email: Vera.Pruenster[at]uibk.ac.at
Phone number: +43 512 507 45807
Office location: HG-120
Address: Fürstenweg 185, 6020 Innsbruck
ORCID ID:https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7784-7208
Research areas: Sport pedagogy and didactics
Vera Prünster studied mathematics and physical education with a focus on teacher training and worked as a teacher in the Innsbruck area for several years. While teaching, she earned her Ph.D. at the Institute of Sports Science at the University of Innsbruck, where she now conducts research and teaches in the fields of sports education, sports didactics, and active mobility. As part of her dissertation, she examined the health-related quality of life among adolescents and its relationships to physical activity, physical fitness, enjoyment of school sports, and personality functioning.
Her experiences in school settings shape her academic interest in the physical activity behaviors of children and adolescents. Her research focuses in particular on the significance of physical activity and sports for the physical and psychosocial health, as well as the quality of life, of young people.
- The Impact of Physical Education on the Physical and Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents
- The Role of Physical Activity and Physical Fitness in Health-Related Quality of Life
- Motor Development in Children and Adolescents and Potential Influencing Factors
- Physical Education from the Perspective of Students and Teachers
Bachelorstudium Lehramt im Unterrichtsfach Bewegung und Sport
- VU Sportmethodik und Sportdidaktik
- SE Seminar mit Bachelorarbeit
- PR Praxissemester - Fachdidaktische Teil
Masterstudium Lehramt im Unterrichtsfach Bewegung und Sport
- VO Aktuelle Forschung in den Bereichen Gender, Diversität und Inklusion
- VU Fachdidaktik Inklusion in Bewegung und Sport: Deutsch als Zweitsprache
- PR Fachdidaktische Begleitlehrveranstaltung zum Masterpraktikum
Prünster V., Niedermeier M., Cocca A., Ruedl G. (2026). Physical fitness and quality of life in Austrian adolescents post-COVID-19: A one-year longitudinal study. AIMS Public Health. 13(3): 909-927. doi. 10.3934/publichealth.2026048
Ruedl G., Schranz A., Salner P., Prünster V., Burtscher M. (2026). Causes and associated factors of mountain bike injuries in bike parks in western Austria: a two-season descriptive epidemiological study. AIMS Public Health. 13(2): 422-431. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2026022
Prünster V., Goth K., Niedermeier M., Greier K., Labek K., Ruedl G. (2025). Personality functioning in adolescents and its association with health-related quality of life and physical fitness. AIMS Public Health. 12(3): 952-969. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2025047
Prünster V., Niedermeier M., Greier K., Cocca A., Ruedl G. (2025). Quality of life and its association with physical activity, physical fitness, and enjoyment of physical education in youth: a study on gender differences. Journal of Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science. 18(1): 31-39. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2025.180104