PhD Supervision
The Institute of Sport offers research supervision in the following subject areas:
Name |
Status |
Field of Study |
Dr Phil Birch | PhD |
Think aloud protocols in sport; Mental toughness in sport; Psychometric testing. |
Dr Sam Blacker | PhD |
Occupational physiology, sports and exercise nutrition, exercise induced muscle damage |
Dr Naomi Datson | PhD |
Physiology of women’s soccer; Optimising preparation and recovery in team sport athletes; Performance analysis of team sports |
Dr Melissa Day | PhD |
Stress and coping, injury, disability and narrative research methods. |
Dr Sarah Edmunds | PhD |
Physical activity and wellbeing, physical activity behaviour change, peer support interventions. |
Dr Suzanne Everley | PhD |
Children’s experiences of physical education and physical activity |
Professor Iain Greenlees | PhD |
Psychological predictors of sporting performance, Person perception in sport, Confidence. |
Dr Mandy Gault | PhD |
Aging and exercise, health promotion and exercise |
Professor Beverley Hale | PhD |
Unusual methods of data analysis for sport. Medical and health statistics. |
Dr Chris Hodgson | PhD |
Psychophysiology and adventure sport |
Dr Henriette Hogh | PhD |
Dyslexia in adults, fluid intelligence and working memory, physical activity and age-related cognitive decline. |
Dr Penny Hudson | PhD |
Gymnastics, biomechanics and sprint performance in both animals and humans |
Dr Jason Lake | PhD |
Resistance exercise biomechanics, movement asymmetry, and measures of mechanical power output |
Professor Mike Lauder | PhD |
Water-based sports technique analysis, resistance exercise biomechanics, movement asymmetry, and measurement of mechanical power output |
Dr Ben Lee | PhD |
Human adaptation to extreme environments, role of heat shock proteins in insulin resistance and diabetes |
Dr Melissa Mantle | PhD |
Educational research in pedagogical strategies to enhance reflection |
Dr Jordan Matthews | PhD |
Social movements, women, and sport, women’s sport leadership, socio-historical development of women’s, sport |
Dr David Muggleton | PhD |
Subcultures and youth culture, social and oral history of sport and leisure |
Professor Steve Myers | PhD |
Physiological demands of high-speed boat racing and altitude and exercise |
Dr Sarah Needham-Bech | PhD |
Physiological demands of dance, fitness testing methodologies, training and workload monitoring |
Dr Julia Potter | PhD |
Children’s exercise and health and stress physiology |
Dr Matt Robins | PhD |
Performance analysis in sport |
Dr Carla Rue | PhD |
Obesity/Disordered Eating and Physiological Responses to Hypoxia. |
Dr Andy Siddall | PhD |
Physical training, injury risk and physiological employment standards in arduous occupations. Exercise physiology in environmental extremes. Lifestyle factors (smoking, physical activity, sleep) and their effect on chronic disease and injury risk. |
Dr Jenny Smith | PhD |
Decision making, hazard perception, and perception in relation to expertise. Perceptual training. Measures of and factors influencing cognitive load. |
Dr Marcus Smith | PhD |
Dehydration and exercise and physiological demands of rock drumming |
Dr Neal Smith | PhD |
Non-linear movement analysis and biomechanics of soccer and racket sports |
Dr Alex Twitchen | PhD |
Sports coaching, coaching development |
Professor Mark Willems | PhD |
Muscle physiology, occupational physiology, ageing and exercise |