Ralph is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sports Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, where he has been a faculty member since 2010. His academic and research work primarily focuses on sport management and elite sport policy, particularly in the context of developing nations. In 2018, he began his PhD research at the research unit Sport & Society of the Department of Movement and Sport Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Veerle de Bosscher. His doctoral research examines the relationship between national contexts and elite sport policy factors that influence international sporting success, with a special focus on less developed nations, including the Philippines. Ralph holds a Master’s degree in Sport Management and Health Promotion from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, which he completed in 2015.

In addition to his academic work, Ralph serves as the President of the Philippine Floorball Association and as Vice President of the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation.

Sport policy and management, health promoting sport programs, organized sport and physical activities

Publications

• Ramos, R., & De Bosscher, V. (2025). The cultural basis of elite sport systems: An institutional logics perspective. In V. Girginov & K. Girginova (Eds.), Handbook on sport and culture (pp. 382–397). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035339983.00043

• Palad, Y. Y., Guisihan, R. M., Aguila, M. E. R., Ramos, R. A. A., & Cagas, J. Y. (2023). An evaluation of policies promoting physical activity among Filipino youth. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 2865. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042865. 

• Ramos, R., De Bosscher, V., Pankowiak, A., Valleser, C.W. (2023). Contexts shaping the development and success of elite sport systems: A scoping review. Sport Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2023.2171276

Presentations

• Ramos, R., & De Bosscher, V. (2025, August 22–23). Sport policy in the Philippines: Institutional dynamics and context conditions [Oral presentation]. 2025 Asian Association for Sport Management (AASM) Conference, Taiwan Society for Sport Management, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Ramos, R., & De Bosscher, V. (2025, July 22–25). Sport policy in the Philippines: Governance, historical legacies, and development challenges in an emerging nation [Oral presentation]. 26th International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Congress, Universitatea Națională de Educație Fizică și Sport (UNEFS), Bucharest, Romania (online).

• Ramos, R. (2025, March 27–29). Sport policy in the Philippines [Plenary presentation]. 2025 Sports AI Academic Exchange Symposium, Department of Kinesiology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

• Ramos, R., De Bosscher, V., & Pankowiak, A. (2024, November 11–12). The relationship between context conditions and elite sport policy in shaping international sporting success: Insights from the Philippines [Oral presentation]. 12th International Conference on Sports and Exercise Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Ramos, R.A. (2024, Sept. 27). The relationship between context conditions and elite sport policy in shaping international sporting success: insights from the Philippines. CHK Research Forum, U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

• Ramos, R. A. (2023, September 15). Examining the interdependent relationship between context conditions and elite sport policy factors in achieving internaitonal sporting success: A case study of the Philippines [Paper presentation]. 31st European Association for Sport Management Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom.

President, Philippine Floorball Association (2015-present); Vice President, Asia-Oceania Floorball Confederation (2024-present); Chairperson, UP Varsity Sports Program (2020-2022)

Email:raramos6@up.edu.ph

ORCID:0000-0002-8231-2985

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fF5Nx4gAAAAJ&hl=en