Congratulations to Associate Professor Peter Watt who was invited to be a keynote speaker at the UIPM (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne) World Coaches Conference in Manchester on 11 November. The conference was a chance for international Olympic coaches involved in the modern pentathlon to get together and share information and updates. There were approximately Read More…
Category: Awards & Achievements
Congratulations to Dr Rosie Twomey – Awarded PhD!
Congratulations to Dr Rosie Twomey who successfully defended her PhD entitled “Neurophysiological Responses to Rest and Fatiguing Exercise in Severe Hypoxia in Healthy Humans” on 10 November 2016. The external examiners Dr Jamie McDonald of Bangor University and Dr Thomas Rupp of the University of Chambery (France) were very impressed with the quality of Rosie’s Read More…
EEL Present at House of Lords Select Committee!
Dr Neil Maxwell and Rebecca Relf (Technical Instructor and PhD Student) were invited to present to a House of Lords Government Select Committee on Breast Cancer Symptom Management in November, to talk about their up-coming research linked to heat sensitivity amongst breast cancer survivors. Following breast cancer, survivors experience intense heat reactions (hot flashes) and Read More…
Eastbourne Leisure Trust invest in EEL!
An application made to the Eastbourne Leisure Trust in July, by Dr Neil Maxwell, Dr Mark Hayes and Associate Professor Peter Watt with support from Kirsty Waldock, has just been awarded. The £5170 grant will fund equipment and con-sumables connected to Kirsty’s PhD study ‘Optimising heat alleviating strategies in an elderly population.’ as well as Read More…
School Prizes to Carl James and Rebecca Relf!
Congratulations to Carl James and Rebecca Relf for winning the 2016 School of Sport and Service Management prizes for the following categories, respectively; Research Student award for best piece of work and Best Masters Student piece of work. The awards were given for Carl’s 4th PhD study: “Short term heat acclimation improves the determinants of Read More…
Congratulations to Dr Jess Mee – awarded PhD!
Many congratulations to Jess Mee who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled, ‘Heat tolerance and acclimation in female athletes’. Subject to some very mi-nor amendments, Jess will be awarded her doctorate. Jess was examined by Professor Craig Williams (Exeter University) and Dr Heather Massey (University of Portsmouth), with a viva 3 hours 1 min in Read More…
Professor Nick Webborn Awarded OBE!
Congratulations to Professor Nick Webborn who has been awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June for services to Paralympic Sports Medicine and the British Paralympic Association.
Congratulations Dr Carl James – Awarded PhD!
Carl James has now been awarded his PhD – entitled ‘Optimising strategies to enhance endurance running performance under hot and humid conditions’ – now he has attended to some minor amendments. Carl was examined by Dr Mike Price (Coventry University) and Dr Chris Tyler (University of Roehampton), who made him work hard with a 3 Read More…
EEL Members Gain BASES Accreditation
Congratulations to Carl James & Gareth Turner (both supervised by Dr Gary Brickley) who have recently achieved the status of BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Physiologist and Chartered Scientist.
EEL’s Rebecca Relf wins BASES Award!
Rebecca Relf, Technical Instructor, received this year’s BASES Student Conference ‘Postgraduate Applied Research Presentation Award’ at Bangor University ( 22-23rd March) for her MSc study entitled, ‘Acute sleep deprivation increases perceptual indicators of heat-related illness without physiological consequences in females’ (Research Team: Jess Mee, Ash Willmott, Dr Oli Gibson, Dr Mark Hayes and Dr Neil Read More…