Research Grants Awarded:
Industry funded PhD studentship Juventus FC, Post-match response and recovery process in elite youth soccer players, Grant value (£): 16000. 2021
Faculty of Education, Health & Community Application to the FREE Research Capacity Building Fund 2016-17, Pedal Away: An Evaluation of a Physical Activity Cycling Initiative, Grant value (£): 13000. 2016
Faculty of Education, Health & Community Application to the FREE Research Capacity Building Fund 2016-17, Step-wise changes of dietary carbohydrate intake in relation to cardiometabolic risk in viscerally obesity, normal body weight, Grant value (£): 12000. 2016
UEFA Research Grant Programme (2016/18), Project title: Scheduling of concurrent-training preceding acute non-contact injuries in elite European football players, Grant value (£): ~13,500, Duration of research project: 9 months. 2016
Faculty of Education, Health & Community Application to the Faculty Research and Enterprise Excellence (FREE)., Profiling of translational and rotational head accelerations in youth BMX with and without neck brac, Grant value (£): 1500. 2016
Faculty of Education, Health & Community Application to the FREE PhD Studentship Fund, The Effects of Eating behaviours and Training Practices on Health in Female Physique Athletes: A Multi-Method Exploration, Grant value (£): 56000. 2016
Conference presentation:
Reliability of ‘in-season’ fitness assessments in youth elite soccer players: a working model for practitioners and coaches, Faculty of Education, Health & Community Festival of Research Conference, Liverpool, England, Oral presentation. 2017
The organisation of concurrent-training within professional soccer teams in England, 12th Annual United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning (UKSCA) Conference., Leicestershire, England., Oral presentation. 2016
Physical education students’ experiences of varying degrees of scaffolding: too much of a good thing?, Liverpool John Moores University, Learning and Teaching Conference, Liverpool, England, Poster presentation. 2016
Quantification of high running velocity using a commercially available soccer motion camera tracing system, 20th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, (ECSS), Malmo, Sweden., Oral presentation. 2015
The acute hormonal responses to two concurrent endurance and strength-training programmes in elite soccer players, the 8th World congress in Science in football (WCSF), Copenhagen, Denmark, Oral presentation. 2015
The effect of in-season concurrent soccer and strength-training sequence on muscle strength and morphology of elite soccer players, The 16th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, (ECSS), Liverpool, England, Oral presentation. 2011
Membership of professional bodies:
BASES Accredited Member, British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, http://www.bases.org.uk/. 2015
Chartered Scientist, The Science Council, http://www.sciencecouncil.org/. 2015
UKSCA Accredited Member, The United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association, http://www.uksca.org.uk/. 2009
Fellowships:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy. 2015
Teaching qualification:
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. 2015