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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Faculty of Health Wellness and Life Sciences is a diverse and vibrant faculty that has a focus on improving the health, physical activity and wellbeing of individuals and the quality of services and care provided. There is a significant public sector focus to the faculty, with strong collaborations with the NHS and Local Authorities, and there are also partnerships with elite athletes and sports clubs, including those for athletes with disabilities.
The faculty comprises three schools: Children Young People and Families; Health and Life Sciences and Sport and Wellbeing. The strength of the faculty is its diversity and integration, reflecting how learning and working together leads to the challenging assumptions, and creating novel solutions to real world problems. It is a growing faculty, in both its portfolio but also its research and knowledge exchange, with world leading outputs in a number of areas such as sports science.
Below are some examples of current research activities and themes.
The research vision and mission in the School of Sport and Wellbeing (SAW) is to find new ways to support the physical activity, movement and performance needs of a diverse range of communities; be it elite athletes performing at the highest levels and/or in extreme environments, children engaging in physical education, learners across the life-course, elderly exercisers, ‘hard to reach’ and at-risk physically inactive groups and those recovering from illness or injury. Accordingly, SAW now addresses two major dynamic multi- and inter-disciplinary themes, being:
1) Enhancing Human Performance: Led by Prof. Russell, has strength in team sports performance and almost exclusively involves research with application to Olympic, elite or professional sports men and women or top-level junior athletes
2) Improving Health and Wellbeing throughout the Lifespan: Led by Prof. Barwood, with a particular strength in the effects of safety behaviours to reduce the risk of death by drowning, and growing expertise in supporting the physical activity and health needs of a diverse range of communities including children, through adulthood, to elderly individuals and clinical and at-risk populations.
In the School of Health and Life Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education are collaborating to undertake inter-disciplinary research on the Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as biomarkers of tinnitus distress. Colleagues in the Biomedical Science team are spearheading an interdisciplinary research initiative integrating biochemical pathway analysis with biophysical technologies to study the electrical-biophysical interface of cancer and wound healing. This collaboration holds significant promise for real-world applications, particularly in addressing two critical healthcare challenges: improving cancer care by halting disease progression and enhancing chronic wound management through innovative, non-invasive therapeutic interventions.
In the School of Children, Young People and Families colleagues are collaborating with external stakeholders and industry to offer consultancy and Continuing Professional Development in relation to special educational needs and early years environments.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Developing an innovative European Sport Tutorship model for the dual career of athletes
Brunton, J. (CoI)
Project: Research
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Investigation into the moderating effects of individual differences in tinnitus distress
Jackson, J. (PI)
1/09/15 → 31/08/16
Project: Research
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A grammatical investigation of miracles
Ellis, D., 28 Jan 2025, In: Religions. 16, 2, 154.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Considering young fatherhood: women and equalities committee inquiry on equality at work, paternity and shared parental leave
Clayton, C., 12 Feb 2025, London: UK Parliament. 5 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Determination of the optimal dose and dosing strategy for effective L-menthol oral rinsing during exercise in hot environments: optimising oral L-menthol administration
Jeffries, O., Jibi, G., Clark, J., Barwood, M. & Waldron, M., Mar 2025, In: European Journal of Applied Physiology. 125, p. 629-638 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Menthol as an ergogenic aid for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games: an expert led consensus statement using the modified Delphi method
Barwood, M. (Creator), Springer Nature, 31 May 2020
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Prizes
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article nominated by the British sociological Association for the 2015 SAGE Prize for Innovation / Excellence.
Ba', S. (Recipient), 12 Dec 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Agrofirestry Prize awarded on National Farmers Day (1992)
Atibila, J. (Recipient), 1 Dec 1992
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Resurrection or Resuscitation: Miracle or Medical Phenomenon?
Ellis, D. (Invited speaker)
25 Apr 2025Activity: Invited talk/public lecture/debate
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Holistic performance coaching: CPD on Nutrition, Anti-doping, and Stress
Barnes, L. (Invited speaker)
27 Feb 2025Activity: Invited talk/public lecture/debate
Press/Media
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Caseworker teams are key to SEND system improvement
14/03/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Nutrition Role in Optimizing Performance in Extra Time Situations
2/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment