The Forgotten Athletes: Jockey’s health reinvented
Watch Dr George Wilson, a former jockey, talk about supporting riders to counter the detrimental effects of weight-making both on racing performance and long-term wellbeing.
Watch Dr George Wilson, a former jockey, talk about supporting riders to counter the detrimental effects of weight-making both on racing performance and long-term wellbeing.
Kelly is a former international 400m athlete for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and has Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medals to her name. She was one of the first sport scholars to study with LJMU in the late 2000’s and has been a lecturer with our School of Sports and Exercise Sciences since 2018.
Find out more about the School of Sport and Exercise Science celebrations of diversity.
MAPSS is a school suicide prevention programme for Year 10 pupils that aims to reduce suicide risk and increase help-seeking among young people.
Read more about the history of Liverpool John Moores University School of Sport and Exercise Science.
Nikita was a member of the England women’s football squad, the Lionesses, that won the 2022 UEFA Women’s Euro Championships. She was previously supported by LJMU under the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) before becoming a sport development student alongside her blossoming professional football career which now sees her play for Manchester United. In 2023, she was announced as one of ten new LJMU honorary fellows to celebrate our 200th anniversary.
Graeme Close, a Professor in Human Physiology at LJMU. He combines his academic research with nutrition and physiology consultancy to some of the world's leading sporting organisations.
This project aims to create a universal definition of physical literacy in England to hopefully catalyse efforts to adopt, support and promote physical literacy in practice.
Find out more about LCR Activate, a c.£5,000,000 project which, over the next 3 years, seeks to help companies in the Digital and Creative sector take big leaps forward.
Read the oration for Sir Philip Craven MBE on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Frank Sanderson.