
Student Research
Our Research Students
Our student community listed by their Director of Study
The following students are directed by Professor Susan Backhouse who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Lea-Catherine Dohme: The development of mindset within academy football: an action research case study
- Hannah Greatwood: Nutritional Intake in Adolescents
- Kelsey Erickson: Are there protective factors amongst athletes with regards to performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sport?
- Charlotte Hinchcliffe: The development of self-regulatory capacity amongst adolescent rugby players
The following students are directed by Dr Athanassios Bissas who is a principal lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Lysander Pollitt: Progressive Unstable Surface Drop Jumping: Effects on Tolerating Greater Heights for Performance
- Nils Jongerius: Physiological and mechanical adaptations in response to alterations of pedalling technique in cyclists
- Helen Gravestock: Musculoskeletal profiles and neuromuscular function in a diverse group of elite athletes
- Masalela Ace Gaesenngwe: TBC
- Emily Gregg: Falls in the Elderly: A Biomechanical Approach to Assessing, Understanding and Preventing Falls
- Elliott Loomes: An evaluation of the physical qualities in youth soccer players by league standard
The following students are directed by Professor David Carless who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Robert Patterson: An investigation of the development of performance models in professional football
The following students are directed by Professor Paul Gately who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Yara Almuhtadi: Evaluating the nutrition curriculum of a weight management programme
- Nicola Sides: By General Practices in Syria
The following students are directed by Dr Claire Griffiths who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Matthew Hobbs: Understanding how the environment, including access to food outlets and opportunities for physical activity and lifestyle behaviours influence obesity
- Elizabeth King: Defining and Evaluating YHA Experiences
- Mohamed Husain: Factors Leading To The Development of Hip Impingement
The following students are directed by Dr Karen Hind who is a senior research fellow in the School of Sport:
- Ian Entwistlse: Neuromuscular Function and Musculoskeletal Health in Retired Rugby Players
The following students are directed by Dr Theocharis Ispoglou who is a senior lectuer in the School of Sport:
- Emma Tester: Optimisation of performance and recovery through nutritional manipulation in rugby league players
- Matthew Butterworth: Exercise and nutritional based interventions to age-related sarcopenia
- Elisabeth Board: A Comparison of Sub-clinical Cardiac Risk in Females with Low Body Weight
- Lewis Fox: The acute and chronic effects of intracellular and extracellular buffers on performance and physiological variables in elite adolescent football players
- Matthew Lees: The effects of age and physical acitvity on the anabolic resistence to essential amino acids and exercise in elderly populations
- Chelsea Moore: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in the rehabilitation of patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) or Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) - exploring efficacy, safety and mechanisms
The following students are directed by Professor Roderick King who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Bengamin Taylor: The metabolic and performance effects of co-ingesting caffeine and carbohydrate both during and post exercise
- Andrew King: The effect of carbohydrate ingestion during exercise on liver and muscle glycogen oxidation
- Shane Thurlow: Development of Individual Rehydration Strategies for Rugby Union Players
- Nicola Reeve: Carbohydrate utilisation during prolonged exercise at simulated altitude
The following students are directed by Dr Andrew Manley who is a principal lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Phillipa Wood: Mental Toughness: General or specific
- Helen Heaviside: The influence of media expectations on elite athletes: an explorative investigation
The following students are directed by Professor Jim McKenna who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Andrew Daly-Smith: The impact of Acute and Chronic Physical Activity on Cognitive function in Obese Young People
- Fieke Rongen: Talent identification and development in sport: a whole person approach to long-term programme impact and effectiveness
- Katie Pickering: Promotion of Public Health Lifestyle Metrics through Football Clubs
- Sergio Lara-Bercial: Positive Holistic Development in Sport: Towards an Integrative Model for Understanding and Maximising Sports Participations Contribution to Children’s Development
- Jennifer Hester: Obese Young People’s Accounts of Intervention Impact
- Suzanne Peacock: Evaluation of a five day Adaptive Sport and Adventure Training Programme for wounded, injured or sick service personnel
- James Jagroo: Development of a framework for physical activity promotion through General Practice exercise referral: An Investigation into the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of GP exercise referral type interventions delivered as part of the Department of Health (DH) Local Exercise Action Pilot (LEAP).
- Lorena Lozano: Characteristics of effective community interventions to promote physical activity with asymptomatic adults
- John Allan: Exploring resiliance among Yr1 students following outdoor field weeks within the Carnegie faculty of sport and education
- Tonia Gabriel: The effects of a Laban based movement programme of exercise on the cognitive development of year 4/5/6 children
- Clare Smith: Keep Active to Manage Occupational Stress in Higher Education
The following students are directed by Professor John O'Hara who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Mark Cooke: Physiological changes at high altitude: hormonal imbalance and hydration status
- Stacey Edmonds: Physical and Movement demands of Rugby League Match Officials: Influence of Fatigue and Positional Awareness on Decision Making During Match Play
- Paul Harlow: Glycogen repletion and rehydration: The effects on fluid restoration, fuel utilisation and close proximity performance
- Amy Marie Brightmore: Evaluation of Movement and Physiological Demands of Rugby League Referees
- Oliver Shannon: Beetroot juice as an aid to exercise in hypoxia
- Alistair Black: TBC
- Antonis Elia: Applications of principles and training of apnoea
- Joshua Rowe: Carbohydrate Dose Response: Substrate Utilisation, Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Metabolism and Endurance Performance
The following students are directed by Dr Andy Pringle who is a reader in the School of Sport:
- James Nobles: Evaluating the effectiveness of the Hearty Lives programme on Cardiovascular Disease risk through reduction of risk factors
- Kathryn Brook: Investigating the Effectiveness of Behavioural Change Interventions with Sedentary/Inactive Hard-to-Reach/Engage Adults
- Dane Vishnubala: TBC
The following students are directed by Professor Andrew Sparkes who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Peter Holmes: The senses, the physically active body and the self: An ethnographic study
- Mark Moran: The development of decision making in youth rugby league players and specifically, how youth players relate to variable practice and game components
- Alan Thomson: Physical education teachers and the social construction of ‘effective’ teaching: A qualitative study
- Christopher Hughes: Factors Leading To The Development of Hip Impingement
- Elizabeth Webster: Developing Self Care Workshops for 12-17 year-olds with Type 1 Diabetes and Asthma: An Action Research Thesis
- Andrew Jennings: Corruption in International Sport: A Psychological Approach to the Identification of Risk Factors and Anti-Corruption Strategies
- Belinda Cooke: TBC
- Ruan Jones: The lived meaning of Teaching Games for Understanding within physical education lessons
The following students are directed by Dr Nick Stanger who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Eoin Murray: Does sport make you a better person? The role of sport in young people's moral development
The following students are directed by Professor David Carless who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Robert Patterson: An investigation of the development of performance models in professional football
The following students are directed by Dr Kate Dashper who is a senior lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Kyriaki Drossou: Emotional Labour in the Greek Hotel Industry
- Kazuyoshi Shinomiya: Only for the rich? An investigation into the perceptions and practices of equestrian sport in contemporary Japanese society
- Jane Simpson: Biding their time? A study into vocational undergraduate students’ use of time
The following students are directed by Dr Hayley Fitzgerald who is a reader in the School of Sport:
- Maria Antritsou: Socialisation and motivation for participation of visually impaired and blind athletes in the sport of goalball
- Viji Kuppan: But we all wear the same shirt don’t we? An intersectional study of disability, ethnicity and gender in the fandom of professional English football
- Ellie-Louise May: An exploration of sports volunteering and disability at the 2012 paralympics
- Ruth Brazier: An Indifference to Difference? Exploring the intersections of disability, ethnicity, and gender within Physical Education (PE)
- Nicholas Halafihi: Assessing the academic awareness of 'capital' from within a University environment
- Victoria Myers: Sport Sponsorship and the (In)Visable Athlete
- Sarah Pinder: The role and impact of adult-child touch on PE pedagogy
- David Cooke: Conceptions of understanding pedagogy in physical education: the role of school based contexts
- Suzanne Richardson: Cultivating a sense of belonging in mature, part time student
The following students are directed by Dr Samantha Holland who is a senior research fellow in the School of Sport:
- Gareth Heritage: Can you live this fantasy life? How have 1980s heavy metal subcultures constructed an aesthetic of hyperrealism
The following students are directed by Professor Kevin Hylton who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Nathan Reid: What effective changes can be made to ensure more diversity is in football at a management level for the future
- Daniel Bates: The Demystification of Community Sport Development
- Alexandra Rankin: An examination of ‘race’, ethnicity and gender in elite sport coaching in the United Kingdom.
- Alexandra Rankin: An examination of ‘race’, ethnicity and gender in elite sport coaching in the United Kingdom
- Kate Bancroft: Outside the Binary: Overcoming Issues of Heteronormativity for Transgender Youths in the English Secondary School System’
- Sharon Colliles: Young minority ethnic learners interconnecting with their known sociocultural practices: A critical analysis
- Janine Partington: The role and remit of sport development services in Local Government
The following students are directed by Dr Brett Lashua who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Gabrielle Skeldon: TBC
- Sarah Whiter: Identity in the digital age: an investigation of the use of social media by student childhood professionals
The following students are directed by Professor Andrew Sparkes who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Peter Holmes: The senses, the physically active body and the self: An ethnographic study
- Mark Moran: The development of decision making in youth rugby league players and specifically, how youth players relate to variable practice and game components
- Alan Thomson: Physical education teachers and the social construction of ‘effective’ teaching: A qualitative study
- Mark Moran: Factors Leading To The Development of Hip Impingement
- Elizabeth Webster: Developing Self Care Workshops for 12-17 year-olds with Type 1 Diabetes and Asthma: An Action Research Thesis
- Andrew Jennings: Corruption in International Sport: A Psychological Approach to the Identification of Risk Factors and Anti-Corruption Strategies
- Belinda Cooke: TBC
- Ruan Jones: The lived meaning of Teaching Games for Understanding within physical education lessons
The following students are directed by Professor Karl Spracklen who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Gabrielle Riches: The Role and Significance Moshpits Play in the Lives of Female Metal Fans in the Leeds Metal Scene
- Te Fang Juan: Sport and sport provision opportunity for residents with disabilities: a comparative study of policy implementation of local areas in Taiwan and England
- Spencer Swain: Shades of Dark Leisure: Ethnography of liminal spaces, liquid modernity and resistance
- Stuart Moss: Entrepreneurship amongst independent club night promoters and environmental influences upon the development of clubs as leisure spaces: The story of independent club night promoters in the city of Leeds, UK, 1990 – 2015
- Justin Morey: A Study of Sampling Practice in British Dance Music Production, 1987-2012
- Phil Harding: A Reflective and Oral History of The Technology and Culture of Manufactured Boy Bands in the 1990's
- Mehmet Yavuz: The Sullen Sulcus: Doom Metal as a genre within extreme metal
The following students are directed by Professor Stephen Wagg who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Mohammed Binjwaied: Critical evaluation of new media technologies in selling football broadcasting rights in Saudi Arabia
The following students are directed by Dr Beccy Watson who is a reader in the School of Sport:
- Lee Tucker: Sunday league football and transformative spaces for social change
- Jocelyn Murtell: Hanging out and taking pictures: Young women, self-portraiture and leisure space
- Sabina Khan: Does Modesty as a conceptual religious and social device influence the way Muslim females experience and access dance?
- Ronald Richards: Acid House Culture, Life Course and their Relationship to the Concept of Utopia
The following students are directed by Dr Simone Abram who is a reader in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- In Mei: Study on gaming behaviour of mainland Chinese visitors as a form of tourism activity: The Case of Macau
The following students are directed by Glenn Bowdin who is a principal lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Hsiang-Ying: Study on the factors influencing attendee satisfaction and return intention: Case of International Conferences in UK
The following students are directed by Dr Kate Dashper who is a senior lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Kyriaki Drossou: Emotional Labour in the Greek Hotel Industry
- Kazuyoshi Shinomiya: Only for the rich? An investigation into the perceptions and practices of equestrian sport in contemporary Japanese society
- Jane Simpson: Biding their time? A study into vocational undergraduate students’ use of time
The following students are directed by Dr Xavier Font who is a reader in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Geoffrey Devito: Social Cruise: The impact of cruise industry social sustainability initiatives on Mediterranean destinations
- Claudia Eckhardt: Collaboration between volunteer organisations and local communities in developing countries
- Mireia Guix Navarrete: Aligning a company’s needs and its stakeholders’ requests: The role of the Materiality Balance Scorecard and its effect on performance
- Lucia Tomassini: A study of the narrated organisational effectiveness in small valuesbased
The following students are directed by Dr Stephen Henderson who is a senior lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Khalifa Al Obaidli: The management and control of security service in major public events in emerging economies: Case study of "Formula One" Racing event in United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Vanessa Jansen-Meinen: Development of an event sustainability for the meetings industry
- Teresa Moore: Sustainability, the environment and music event audiences: managing audiences environmental behaviours at music festivals
The following students are directed by Dr Alexandra Kenyon who is a senior lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Mohamed El Alansari: The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Higher Education Partnership
- Lucy Hack: Corporate Social Responsibility within the Night Time Economy
- Esther Pugh: A phenomenological exploration of the vintage fashionista’s shopping motivations in ludic and serendipitous place
- Beata Szymanska-Waczynska: Attitude to humour in Polish bank television advertisements: A consumer’s perspective
- Grigor Vidmar: Power and Trust in Restructuring Process
The following students are directed by Dr Razaq Raj who is a principal lecturer in the School of Accounting, Finance & Economics:
- John Udofa: The impact of pricing on the patronage of banks, a study of the Nigerian banking industry
- Saeed Alshamsi: Leadership style and empowerment of employees in decision making through good communication
- Mohamed Aljeaidi:Events Planning and Policy Framework
- Jonathan Sibley: A critical analysis of an ecological systems theory approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within an English Professional Football Club
- Benson Igboke: Contemporary issues in financial reporting by local authorities: An insight into critical challenges to ipsas adoption by local governments in Nigeria
- Kristel Kessler: Conceptualising Pilgrims as New Wellness Tourists: A comparative study of the pilgrimage city of Lisieux and the spa town of Enghien-Les-Bains in France.
The following students are directed by Professor Karl Spracklen who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Gabrielle Riches: The Role and Significance Moshpits Play in the Lives of Female Metal Fans in the Leeds Metal Scene
- Te Fang Juan: Sport and sport provision opportunity for residents with disabilities: a comparative study of policy implementation of local areas in Taiwan and England
- Spencer Swain: Shades of Dark Leisure: Ethnography of liminal spaces, liquid modernity and resistance
- Stuart Moss: Entrepreneurship amongst independent club night promoters and environmental influences upon the development of clubs as leisure spaces: The story of independent club night promoters in the city of Leeds, UK, 1990 – 2015
- Justin Morey: A Study of Sampling Practice in British Dance Music Production, 1987-2012
- Phil Harding: A Reflective and Oral History of The Technology and Culture of Manufactured Boy Bands in the 1990's
- Mehmet Yavuz: The Sullen Sulcus: Doom Metal as a genre within extreme metal
The following students are directed by Professor Rhodri Thomas who is a professor in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- David Andrews: The challenge of collaboration, partnership and trust: assessing the operations of destination management organisations
- Margaret Carmouche: The role of events in negotiating social class identities
- Marianna Kornilaki: Tour Operators' Corporate Social Responsibility to their Supply Chains
- Yanning Li: The Implementation of Innovations in Events: the Chinese Context
- Conor McTiernan: The role of trust in inter-organisational knowledge transfer within a festival and event innovation system
- Jacqueline Mulligan: Role of Meetings as Stimulators of Economic Creativity
- Alistair Palferman: Innovation in the hotel sector: The role of social integration in the absorptive capacity of international hotels
The following students are directed by Dr Emma Wood who is a reader in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Michelle Lanham: Collective group emotions and impact of the individual
- Ubaldino Sequeira Couto: The role of cultural festivals in influencing attitudinal changes toward ethnic minorities
The following students are directed by Dr Simon Woodward who is a principal lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality:
- Samantha Isaac: New models of destination management delivery: An exploration of increased responsibility from the private sector
- Enesi Majebi: Tourists perceptions of risks of destinations in leisure travel intentions
The following students are directed by Professor Susan Backhouse who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Lea-Catherine Dohme: The development of mindset within academy football: an action research case study
- Hannah Greatwood: Nutritional Intake in Adolescents
- Kelsey Erickson: Are there protective factors amongst athletes with regards to performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sport?
- Charlotte Hinchcliffe: The development of self-regulatory capacity amongst adolescent rugby players
The following students are directed by Dr Athanassios Bissas who is a principal lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Lysander Pollitt: Progressive Unstable Surface Drop Jumping: Effects on Tolerating Greater Heights for Performance
- Nils Jongerius: Physiological and mechanical adaptations in response to alterations of pedalling technique in cyclists
- Helen Gravestock: Musculoskeletal profiles and neuromuscular function in a diverse group of elite athletes
- Masalela Ace Gaesenngwe: TBC
- Emily Gregg: Falls in the Elderly: A Biomechanical Approach to Assessing, Understanding and Preventing Falls
- Elliott Loomes: An evaluation of the physical qualities in youth soccer players by league standard
The following students are directed by Professor David Carless who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Robert Patterson: An investigation of the development of performance models in professional football
The following students are directed by Dr Faye Didymus who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Helen Staff: The role of the coach in the development of athletes' coping abilities
- Luke Norris: Occupational Stress, Health, and Well-Being Among Sport Coaches
The following students are directed by Dr Karen Hind who is a senior research fellow in the School of Sport:
- Ian Entwistlse: Neuromuscular Function and Musculoskeletal Health in Retired Rugby Players
The following students are directed by Dr Theocharis Ispoglou who is a senior lectuer in the School of Sport:
- Emma Tester: Optimisation of performance and recovery through nutritional manipulation in rugby league players
- Matthew Butterworth: Exercise and nutritional based interventions to age-related sarcopenia
- Elisabeth Board: A Comparison of Sub-clinical Cardiac Risk in Females with Low Body Weight
- Lewis Fox: The acute and chronic effects of intracellular and extracellular buffers on performance and physiological variables in elite adolescent football players
- Matthew Lees: The effects of age and physical acitvity on the anabolic resistence to essential amino acids and exercise in elderly populations
- Chelsea Moore: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in the rehabilitation of patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) or Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) - exploring efficacy, safety and mechanisms
The following students are directed by Dr Ben Jones who is a senior lectuer in the School of Sport:
- Gregory Roe:The acute and chronic effect of match-play on neuromuscular and biochemical fatigue and mood in academy rugby union players
- Jonathon Weakley: Short, Medium and Long-Term Adaptations to Strength and Conditioning Training Interventions in Adolescent Rugby Players
- Christopher Black: Effects of match play and training loads on acute and chronic fatigue in rugby league players
- Melissa Bargh: Thermal discomfort during high intensity intermittent activity: effects on thirst, fluid balance and current hydration recommendations
- Nessan Costello: Energy intake vs. energy expenditure; Consequences of an energy imbalance in the development of adolescent rugby players
- Matthew Ireton: Effects of training-age on the physical development of the adolescent-adult rugby player
- Sean Scantlebury: Injury and Illness within youth sport; considerations for training load
The following students are directed by Professor Roderick King who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Bengamin Taylor: The metabolic and performance effects of co-ingesting caffeine and carbohydrate both during and post exercise
- Andrew King: The effect of carbohydrate ingestion during exercise on liver and muscle glycogen oxidation
- Shane Thurlow: Development of Individual Rehydration Strategies for Rugby Union Players
- Nicola Reeve: Carbohydrate utilisation during prolonged exercise at simulated altitude
The following students are directed by Dr Chris Low who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Kirstie Grace: The Biomechanics of the Field Hockey Drag Flick in Women
The following students are directed by Professor John O'Hara who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Mark Cooke: Physiological changes at high altitude: hormonal imbalance and hydration status
- Stacey Edmonds: Physical and Movement demands of Rugby League Match Officials: Influence of Fatigue and Positional Awareness on Decision Making During Match Play
- Paul Harlow: Glycogen repletion and rehydration: The effects on fluid restoration, fuel utilisation and close proximity performance
- Amy Marie Brightmore: Evaluation of Movement and Physiological Demands of Rugby League Referees
- Oliver Shannon: Beetroot juice as an aid to exercise in hypoxia
- Alistair Black: TBC
- Antonis Elia: Applications of principles and training of apnoea
- Joshua Rowe: Carbohydrate Dose Response: Substrate Utilisation, Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Metabolism and Endurance Performance
The following students are directed by Dr Jamie Poolton who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Mario Staller: Optimal Learning Environments for Self-Defence Practice
The following students are directed by Dr Nick Stanger who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Eoin Murray: Does sport make you a better person? The role of sport in young people's moral development
The following students are directed by Dr Kevin Till who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Rhys Morris: The effect of maturation status on the adaptation to strength and conditioning training in adolescent athletes
- Joshua Darrall-Jones: Physiological and anthropometric characteristics of academy rugby league and union players, there development, and relationship to match play performance
- Padraic Phibbs: Effects of age, maturation status and playing level on the physiological, movement and skill demands during match play in academy rugby union players
- Dale Read: Effects of age, maturation status and playing level on the physiological, movement and skill demands during match play in academy rugby union players
- Thomas Sawczuk: Injury and illness in youth sport: Considerations for training load
The following students are directed by Dr Faye Didymus who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Helen Staff: The role of the coach in the development of athletes' coping abilities
- Luke Norris: Occupational Stress, Health, and Well-Being Among Sport Coaches
The following students are directed by Dr Hayley Fitzgerald who is a reader in the School of Sport:
- Maria Antritsou: Socialisation and motivation for participation of visually impaired and blind athletes in the sport of goalball
- Viji Kuppan: But we all wear the same shirt don’t we? An intersectional study of disability, ethnicity and gender in the fandom of professional English football
- Ellie-Louise May: An exploration of sports volunteering and disability at the 2012 paralympics
- Ruth Brazier: An Indifference to Difference? Exploring the intersections of disability, ethnicity, and gender within Physical Education (PE)
- Nicholas Halafihi: Assessing the academic awareness of 'capital' from within a University environment
- Victoria Myers: Sport Sponsorship and the (In)Visable Athlete
- Sarah Pinder: The role and impact of adult-child touch on PE pedagogy
- David Cooke: Conceptions of understanding pedagogy in physical education: the role of school based contexts
- Suzanne Richardson: Cultivating a sense of belonging in mature, part time student
The following students are directed by Dr Andrew Manley who is a principal lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Phillipa Wood: Mental Toughness: General or specific
- Helen Heaviside: The influence of media expectations on elite athletes: an explorative investigation
The following students are directed by Professor Jim McKenna who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Andrew Daly-Smith: The impact of Acute and Chronic Physical Activity on Cognitive function in Obese Young People
- Fieke Rongen: Talent identification and development in sport: a whole person approach to long-term programme impact and effectiveness
- Katie Pickering: Promotion of Public Health Lifestyle Metrics through Football Clubs
- Sergio Lara-Bercial: Positive Holistic Development in Sport: Towards an Integrative Model for Understanding and Maximising Sports Participations Contribution to Children’s Development
- Jennifer Hester: Obese Young People’s Accounts of Intervention Impact
- Suzanne Peacock: Evaluation of a five day Adaptive Sport and Adventure Training Programme for wounded, injured or sick service personnel
- James Jagroo: Development of a framework for physical activity promotion through General Practice exercise referral: An Investigation into the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of GP exercise referral type interventions delivered as part of the Department of Health (DH) Local Exercise Action Pilot (LEAP).
- Lorena Lozano: Characteristics of effective community interventions to promote physical activity with asymptomatic adults
- John Allan: Exploring resiliance among Yr1 students following outdoor field weeks within the Carnegie faculty of sport and education
- Tonia Gabriel: The effects of a Laban based movement programme of exercise on the cognitive development of year 4/5/6 children
- Clare Smith: Keep Active to Manage Occupational Stress in Higher Education
The following students are directed by Dr David Piggott who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Emma Boocock: Impact of the EPPP on player development in Youth Academy Football: What works for players, coaches and key stakeholders, in what circumstances, and why?
- Simon Quick: A review and evaluation of decision-making expertise in Sports Coaching
- Gary Hodgson: A comparative study of the situated nature of coach development of English and Australian elite level rugby league coaches in the English Super League
- Paul Ogilvie: Coming to Understand the lived experiences of 5-7 years olds in their Physical Endurances
The following students are directed by Dr Jamie Poolton who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Mario Staller: Optimal Learning Environments for Self-Defence Practice
The following students are directed by Professor Andrew Sparkes who is a professor in the School of Sport:
- Peter Holmes: The senses, the physically active body and the self: An ethnographic study
- Mark Moran: The development of decision making in youth rugby league players and specifically, how youth players relate to variable practice and game components
- Alan Thomson: Physical education teachers and the social construction of ‘effective’ teaching: A qualitative study
- Christopher Hughes: Factors Leading To The Development of Hip Impingement
- Elizabeth Webster: Developing Self Care Workshops for 12-17 year-olds with Type 1 Diabetes and Asthma: An Action Research Thesis
- Andrew Jennings: Corruption in International Sport: A Psychological Approach to the Identification of Risk Factors and Anti-Corruption Strategies
- Belinda Cooke: TBC
- Ruan Jones: The lived meaning of Teaching Games for Understanding within physical education lessons
The following students are directed by Dr Kevin Till who is a senior lecturer in the School of Sport:
- Rhys Morris: The effect of maturation status on the adaptation to strength and conditioning training in adolescent athletes
- Joshua Darrall-Jones: Physiological and anthropometric characteristics of academy rugby league and union players, there development, and relationship to match play performance
- Padraic Phibbs: Effects of age, maturation status and playing level on the physiological, movement and skill demands during match play in academy rugby union players
- Dale Read: Effects of age, maturation status and playing level on the physiological, movement and skill demands during match play in academy rugby union players
- Thomas Sawczuk: Injury and illness in youth sport: Considerations for training load