Conference attendees (Ash, Emily & Kirsty circled, left picture) Three of our members presented at the recent International Congress on Environmental Ergonomics (ICEE, http://www.environmental-ergonomics.org/) in Kobe, Japan. Emily Watkins (oral and poster presentation), Ash Willmott (oral presentation) and Kirsty Waldock (oral presentation).
Category: PhD Student News
Congratulations to Dr Willmott who secures PhD
It is with great pleasure that I can announce Ash Willmott successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday 27th October 2017 entitled, ‘Optimising heat acclimation state and refining strategies for the acquisition of heat adaptations’. It has been a very emotional “journey” for Ash with many challenges that he has had to overcome, not least Read More…
New PhD Students Join EEL!
Welcome to three new PhD students to the Environmental Extremes Lab. All three are graduates from either our BSc or MSc degrees. Gregor Eichhorn – Heat acclimation strategies in the elderly to promote cellular resistance in hypoxic environments. Self-funded project with support from the University of Brighton. (supervisors: Neil Maxwell, Mark Hayes and Oli Gibson) Rosie Lewis Read More…
EEL Head to 2017 BASES Student Conference
Ash Willmott and Kirsty Waldock along with Dr Gary Brickley and some of our BSc and MSc students attended the Annual BASES Student Conference on the 12th and 13th April at the University of Plymouth. BASES is the professional body for Sport and Exercise Science in the UK and the student conference was attended by Read More…
EEL Contribute to PHE’s Annual Heat Wave Seminar
Dr Neil Maxwell and Kirsty Waldock (PhD student), presented at Public Health England’s Annual Heatwave Seminar on March 14 2017 that reviewed the Heatwave Plan in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths, reduce illness and hospital visits and increase public awareness. The seminar hosted delegates and speakers from PHE, NHS, Met Office, national Read More…
Congratulations to Dr Ben Duncan!
Congratulations to Ben Duncan who passed his PhD defence on 20 January with only minor changes to complete the process. Ben’s work was on the effects of low oxygen concentration, high altitude exposure, on metabolism of fuel in humans. He did a lot of work in the labs and also translat-ed this to field work Read More…
Congratulations to Dr Gareth Turner – Awarded PhD!
Gareth Turner was awarded his PhD subject to minor corrections on Thursday 8 December. His PhD thesis, entitled “Hypoxic exposure to optimise altitude training adaptations in elite endurance athletes” was examined by Dr Charlie Pedlar (external examiner, via Skype) and Professor Jo Doust (Internal Examiner). Dr Neil Maxwell (supervisor) sat in on the viva and Read More…
EEL Receive Awards at International Conference on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation
Congratulations to Dr Jess Mee and Dr Oli Gibson (former Technical Instructors and PhD Students of SaSM and allied to SESAME) for separately being winners of the American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrated, and Comparative Physiology Poster Awards at the 6th International Conference on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation, Slovenia. Congratulations should also be Read More…
EEL Present at a House of Lords Select Committee
Head of EEL, Dr Neil Maxwell and PhD student, Rebecca Relf, were invited to present to a House of Lords Government Select Committee on Breast Cancer Symptom Management in November 2016, 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…
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…