The Environmental Extremes Lab (EEL), a multidisciplinary research and knowledge exchange team, has a 25-year proven track record of creating impactful change in sport performance and protecting athletes’ health. Climate change is the greatest challenge of our times and there is an urgency to prioritise new and sophisticated research focused on solutions that prepare our communities for its unprecedented consequences on health and wellbeing. The global scale of heat waves will be even more significant in the future. There is a global imperative to risk stratify vulnerable populations and investigate the utility and efficacy of heat mitigation / therapy strategies to offset physiological challenge and risk to health. Our track record in heat-mitigation research and impacting policy change, with our increasing diversification towards occupational, health and clinical populations gives us a strong position to translate our work towards a wider range of vulnerable populations.
Our Vision
For our high quality research to translate into advocacy globally, on how to live, work and safely engage in physical activity whilst in extreme environments, prioritizing risk stratification and mitigation / therapeutic strategies to benefit at-risk populations.
Our Mission
Our internationally-renowned research addresses the challenges of environmental extremes on human health, wellbeing and performance. We develop and evaluate applied interventions using scientific methodologies to influence policy, product development, practice and people…for health, occupations and sports performance.
Our Guiding Principles
Our four core guiding principles which underpin our mission and vision include:
- High quality research
- Excellent training and learning opportunities for our students and staff
- Commitment to translation of theory and evidence into practical settings
- Collaboration with industry, charities and governing bodies outside of the University
