PhD Supervision

Name

Status

Field of Study

Think aloud protocols in sport; Mental toughness in sport; Psychometric testing.

Occupational physiology, sports and exercise nutrition, exercise induced muscle damage

Physiology of women’s soccer; Optimising preparation and recovery in team sport athletes; Performance analysis of team sports

Stress and coping, injury, disability and narrative research methods. 

Physical activity and wellbeing, physical activity behaviour change, peer support interventions. 

Children’s experiences of physical education and physical activity

Psychological predictors of sporting performance, Person perception in sport, Confidence. 

Aging and exercise, health promotion and exercise

Unusual methods of data analysis for sport. Medical and health statistics.

Psychophysiology and adventure sport

Dyslexia in adults, fluid intelligence and working memory, physical activity and age-related cognitive decline.

Gymnastics, biomechanics and sprint performance in both animals and humans

Resistance exercise biomechanics, movement asymmetry, and measures of mechanical power output

Water-based sports technique analysis, resistance exercise biomechanics, movement asymmetry, and measurement of mechanical power output

Human adaptation to extreme environments, role of heat shock proteins in insulin resistance and diabetes

Educational research in pedagogical strategies to enhance reflection

Social movements, women, and sport, women’s sport leadership, socio-historical development of women’s, sport

Subcultures and youth culture, social and oral history of sport and leisure

Physiological demands of high-speed boat racing and altitude and exercise

Physiological demands of dance, fitness testing methodologies, training and workload monitoring

Children’s exercise and health and stress physiology

Performance analysis in sport

Obesity/Disordered Eating and Physiological Responses to Hypoxia.

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.  

Decision making, hazard perception, and perception in relation to expertise. Perceptual training. Measures of and factors influencing cognitive load. 

Dehydration and exercise and physiological demands of rock drumming

Non-linear movement analysis and biomechanics of soccer and racket sports

Sports coaching, coaching development

Muscle physiology, occupational physiology, ageing and exercise