Student Research

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