Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Matthew Barlow
Senior Lecturer
Matt Barlow is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Physiology within the Carnegie School of Sport.
His research interests lie within Performance in Extreme Environments particularly in the physiological response to hypoxia, physiological adaptations to and applications of apnoea training, performance in marine sports. Matt also has interests in Body Composition and Bone Health.
Matt teaches on a large number of undergraduate programmes on physiology related modules and also delivers on a number of MSc modules. He has successfully supervised a number of PhD students through to completion.
Matt is a School Local Research Ethics Coordinator (SLREC) and also leads the inferential Dual X-Ray Absorptiopometry (iDXA) unit.
Matt is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current Teaching
Research Interests
physiological mechanisms and adaptations of acute and chronic apnoeic training. This is an area that Matt is continuing to develop and is applying the theories generated to other aspects of human performance.