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Dr Chris Brogden

Senior Lecturer

Chris joined Leeds Beckett University from Edge Hill University where he worked as a Senior Lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy programme for seven years. He gained his PhD in 2015 and since then he has continued to research, publish and supervise postgraduate (MRes and PhD) students, investigating risk factors and aetiological mechanisms associated with sports injuries from a mechanistic perspective.

Chris is a sports scientist by trade who has gone onto specialise in rehabilitation, injury risk and screening via the further qualifications he has studied and the experiences he has gained. At his previous institution, he taught modules relating to kinesiology, rehabilitation and research methods, helping students to understand scientific principles and how they can be applied to aetiological mechanisms and rehabilitation from injury.

Chris' expertise surrounds using scientific equipment such as isokinetic dynamometry, force plates and global positioning systems amongst other and how these can be used to monitor athletic performance, screen for injury risk and inform the rehabilitation process and safe and effective return to play of athletes.

Chris has supervised one PhD student who investigated the biomechanical profile of ballet dancers in a laboratory and field based environment and has also successfully supervised nine Masters students.

Current Teaching

Sports Injury Management and Rehabilitation
Research in Practice

Research Interests

Chris' research interests centre around how people can help to reduce injury risk in sporting environments via using scientific equipment such as isokinetic dynamometry and global positioning systems to provide objective data which can help inform (p)rehabilitation processes. This research could potentially impact the way medical staff use scientific equipment to monitor their non-injured and injured athletes.

Further to this, Chris is interested how anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation programmes are designed and how they could be modified to help improve outcome measures in a healthcare setting. This research has the potential to improve patient wellbeing, reduce reinjury rates and improve the number of patients who can return to playing sport or partake in physical activity.