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Researchers

Researchers

SESAME researchers and their areas
NameContactResearch area(s)Consultancy area

Principal Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643744

Email: M.P.Bailey@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Biomechanical modelling
of cycling performance

Dr Louisa Beale

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643759

Email: l.beale@brighton.ac.uk

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Cardiac rehabilitation
and exercise
prescription in special populations

Alex Bliss

Senior Sport and
Exercise Support
Officer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643742

Email: A.Bliss2@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

 

Dr Gary Brickley

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643760

Email: G.Brickley@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise in cardiac
patients and Paralympic
cycling

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643759

Email: J.Dekerle@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise tolerance and swimming physiology

Professor Jo Doust

Professor of Exercise Physiology

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643700

Optimising human performance

Exercise for health and wellbeing

 

Dr Paul Ford

Senior Lecturer

 

Email: P.R.Ford@brighton.ac.uk

   

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643743

Email: I.Giannopoulou@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Exercise training and
nutrition in obese and
type 2 diabetics

Dr Mark Hayes

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644730

Email: M.Hayes@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Tolerance to
environmental extremes

Dr Neil Maxwell

Reader

Head of Sport
and Exercise Science and
Medicine Research

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643755

Email: N.Maxwell@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Tolerance to
environmental extremes

Dr Alan Richardson

Principal Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643723

Email: A.J.Richardson@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Tolerance to
environmental extremes

Dr Nick Smeeton

Principal Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643714

Email: N.J.Smeeton@brighton.ac.uk

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Training anticipation and decision-making skill
in sport

Dr Peter Watt

Associate Professor

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643789

Email: P.Watt@brighton.ac.uk

Optimising human performance

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Metabolism and protein synthesis

Professor Nick Webborn

Clinical Professor (Sport
and Exercise Medicine)

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643741

Email: A.D.J.Webborn@brighton.ac.uk

Exercise for health and wellbeing

Illness and injury
surveillance
amongst Paralympic
athletes plus muscle
and tendon injury

Ash Willmott

Sport and Exercise Science Support Officer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643742

Email: A.G.Willmott@brighton.ac.uk

   

James Wrightson

Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643743

Email: J.Wrightson2@brighton.ac.uk

   

Student researchers

Students and their research topics
NameTopicSupervisors

William Abbott

The series of studies aim to address the use of Global
Positioning System (GPS) technology within professional
soccer.

Dr Nick Smeeton

Jake Butterworth

The role of interoception on exercise behaviour

Dr Nick Smeeton

Charlotte Coombs

Cellular indicators for monitoring performance and injuries

Dr Peter Watt

Anna Guildford

Ben Duncan

The effects of hypoxic exposure and physical activity on fat
metabolism body composition and weight loss in humans

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Alan Richardson

Oli Gibson

Cellular stress response to acute and chronic exercise-heat
stress

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Peter Watt

Aaron Greenhouse-Tucknott

The limits of exercise tolerance and value-based
decision-making: Neurophysiological role of interoception

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

Professor Neil Harrison

Marina Garcia Hortal

The identification of physiological, functional and
hormonal changes that occur with short-term detraining
and retraining in a young, healthy population

Professor Jonathan Doust

Carl James

Optimising heat tolerance and the determinants of
endurance performance using acute and chronic
strategies

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Alan Richardson

Antonia Karanikolou

Omics biomarkers of training and doping

Professor Yannis Pitsiladis

Dr Guan Wang

Dr Nir Eynon

Jess Mee

Thermo-tolerance and adaptation to heat acclimation
in female endurance runners

Dr Neil Maxwell

Professor Jonathan Doust

Catherine Payne

The use of sonoelastography in measuring the mechanical
characteristics of the in vivo, human Achilles tendon.

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Nick Webborn

Rebecca Relf

Heat sensitivity and alleviating interventions for
female breast cancer survivors

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Melanie Flint

Lisa Schäfer

Neuromuscular fatigue and alleviating strategies in
high-intensity exercise

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

Dr Mark Hayes

Karl Stevenson

An investigation into the perceptual - cognitive demands
mediating skilled cricket batting performance

Dr Nick Smeeton

Dr Neil Maxwell

Gareth Turner

Optimising altitude/hypoxic training methods for elite
endurance athletes.

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Alan Richardson

Rosie Twomey

Neurophysiological determinants of fatigue following
whole body exercise in normoxia and severe hypoxia

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

Dr Neil Maxwell

Jet Van Zalen

The use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, in
combination with echocardiography, in the
assessment and management of patients with
structural heart disease.

Dr Guy Lloyd

Matyas Varga

The role of different visual clues in anticipation in
striking sports Introduction Anticipation

Dr Nick Smeeton

Dr Raoul Huys

Kirsty Waldock

Heatwaves in the elderly and the impact of acute and
chronic heat-alleviating strategies on health

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Mark Hayes

Emily Watkins

Recommendations for UK fire service instructors working
practices to minimise immunological, physiological and
perceptual responses

Dr Alan Richardson

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Mark Hayes

Ash Wilmott

The effects of the interplay between acclimation state,
training status and immune function from heat
acclimation in endurance cyclists

Dr Neil Maxwell

Dr Jeanne Dekerle

James Wrightson

The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation
and virtual reality training on gait in Parkinson's disease

Dr Peter Watt

Dr Emma Ross

Dr Nick Smeeton

Visiting researchers and honorary research fellows

We enjoy welcoming visiting researchers to spend time with us. This can vary from a week at a time to a year.

Some of our most recent visitors include:

Visiting researchers and honorary research fellows
NameInstitution

Dr Frederic Daussin

Visiting researcher

Lecturer, Faculté des Sciences du Sport et de l'Education Physique,

Université de Lille 2, France

Kristopher Mendes de Souza

Visiting researcher

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

 

Professor Mark Williams

Visiting researcher

Brunel University

University of Utah

 

Dr Polly Baker

Honorary Research Fellow

Email: pollybaker@cantab.net

Dr Rowley Cottingham

Honorary Research Fellow

Email: rowley@emergencyunit.com

Dr Emma Ross

Honorary Research Fellow

 

Support team

The team and their contact details
NameContact

Ann Attfield

Technician

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643753

Email: A.Attfield@brighton.ac.uk

Alex Bliss

Senior Sport and Exercise
Science Support Officer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643742

Email: A.Bliss2@brighton.ac.uk

James Bovington

Senior Technician – laboratories

Email: J.Bovington@brighton.ac.uk

Rosa Leftwich

Sport and Exercise Science Support Officer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643742

Email: R.Leftwich@brighton.ac.uk

Billy Norton

Technician

Email: B.Norton@brighton.ac.uk

Rebecca Relf

Technical Instructor

Email: R.Relf@brighton.ac.uk

Lisa Schafer

Technical Instructor

Email: L.Schafer@brighton.ac.uk

Ron Shepherd

Technician

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643753

Email: R.Shepherd@brighton.ac.uk

David Thomas

Senior Technician

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643806

Email: David.Thomas@brighton.ac.uk

Emily Watkins

Technical Instructor

Email: E.R.Watkins@brighton.ac.uk

Ashley Willmott

Sport and Exercise Science Support Officer

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643742

Email: A.G.Willmott@brighton.ac.uk

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