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Jon Bell

Lecturer

Jon Bell is a therapeutic and rehabilitation sciences lecturer at Leeds Beckett University’s School of Health. He is also head of Sports medicine and performance for the GB wrestling team and the clinical supervisor at Teesside University for the talent pathway academics. He has worked with UFC and Cage warrior champions, Olympic gold medal athletes and within in top-flight football in rugby in the UK and Europe.

Jon was previously in the Military, where he acted as a team medic in conflict zones such as Afghanistan. This has led to a decade of working with veteran amputees, mainly through the charity BLESMA.

Jon decided to move into lecturing full-time after lecturing part-time for a couple of years around work in professional sports. He then completed a Postgraduate certificate in education at the University of Huddersfield. Since then, he has been the program lead for Sports Therapy and Sports Rehabilitation degree- courses at Middlesbrough and Moulton College and lectured briefly in Norway. There, he established his interest in the relative age effect (RAE) seen in football and how it differed between countries with different school intake dates.

Jon’s current research and interests focus on British wrestling and combat sports. As this aligns with his external work as Head of Sports Medicine and Performance for the British Wrestling Association and the medical support he provides for MMA and bare-knuckle promotions such as BKFC and this is Olympus.

Current Teaching

Sports and Exercise Therapy under and pre-graduate courses and Sports and exercise medicine.

Module lead: Spinal Anatomy
Level lead: Year 1

Research Interests

Jon has completed research into the effect of maturation on risk factors in female football using peak height velocity (PHV) and biomechanical screening. This directly informed the practice of several teams of regional talent centres that adopted the regular use of PHV monitoring with their squads. He has also played a large part in collecting external data for veteran charities such as Sporting Force and BLESMA in order to develop projects and bid for government funding schemes.

More recently, Jon has completed the first epidemiology study in British wrestling. This is the first of several planned studies with the population.