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 Pete Bunyan	PhD	Self-esteem and adventure environment
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 Ruth Lowry	PhD	Physical activity, health and psychological well-being, behavior change, body image, social support
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
Professor Terence McMorris	PhD	Perception, motor control and decision making in sport and exercise
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.
D r 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 Matthew Smith	PhD	Person perception in sport
Dr Neal Smith	PhD	Non-linear movement analysis and biomechanics of soccer and racket sports
Dr Alex Twitchen	PhD	Sports coaching, coaching development
Dr Ella Walker	PhD	Thermal / Environmental Physiology, Occupational Physiology, Field Hockey, Offshore and Inshore Sailing
Professor Mark Willems	PhD	Muscle physiology, occupational physiology, ageing and exercise

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