Martin J. Meyer

Dr. Martin J. Meyer is a martial arts researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Vechta, Germany. He is a founding member of the ‘Commission for Martial Arts & Combat Sports’ academic network for which he served from 2014-2016 as speaker. Also, he is a founding member and editor of the ‘Journal of Martial Arts Research’. His research projects deal with interdisciplinary, especially pedagogical, sociological and motivational aspects of martial arts. In 2017, he got a scholarship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to research with Professor Heiko Bittmann in Kanazawa, Japan. His dissertation initiated the academic project 'Why Martial Arts', whose substudies focus on the participation motives of martial artists.