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Subject: Physical education

Age range: 16+

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14 September 2021

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A resource created by multiple teachers to support the delivery of the 2019 BTEC Sport specifications. It can also be used for other specifications and subject areas. The unit itself contains a range of PowerPoints that cover the unit contents. All lessons contain a starter activity (identify), main content (discover), activities/worksheets (apply) and plenary tasks (check). Due to this unit being Pearson-set. The focus has been on Technology within sport.

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Doing Research in Sport and Exercise A Student's Guide

• Mark F. Smith - University of Lincoln, UK
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Split into five sections that cover your whole research journey, this book captures everything you need to understand to do a sports research project. 

From getting started with a research question and selecting a research approach to choosing a method of data collection and analysing and presenting research findings, it walks you step-by-step through the entire research process. The book also:

• Showcases a diverse range of approaches, including experiments, surveys, focus groups, interviews, systematic reviews and mixed methods, to help you choose the best option for your project.
• Focuses on applied research, showing you how to go beyond the classroom, conduct research in the field and manage and analyse data in the real world.
• Explores how your supervisor can support you to get the most out of your project.

Features include over 40 student activities that encourage you to think more deeply about what you've learned, nearly 50 case studies highlighting research from real-world students and sport researchers, and reflection points, to help you check your understanding. For students across courses relating to Sport & Exercise Science, Coaching Practice & Development, PE and Sport, this book is a down-to-earth guide to help anyone doing a research project in sport and exercise. 

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A friendly introduction to key elements of the research process, this book covers many approaches to research and includes topics not covered in similar texts.  Examples give application to the concepts addressed. Easy access to sections most useful for particular projects and references to further reading and published research consolidate particular points.

Brilliant examples that bring the different research methods to life. The text is easy to read, the focus boxes are helpful for students and staff alike. The students are just half-way through the research methods unit and have given resoundingly positive feedback. They are all expected to do a research project for their dissertation collecting real data and they find these examples set in the context of why the study was designed in that way very helpful.

A very useful manual for my students at the sports faculty in Lille, France. Easily understandable approach for an introductory course in research methodology.

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Master’s by Research projects in the School of Sport & Exercise Sciences

Discover our exciting postgraduate research opportunities..

By Annabel Chislett | 21 February 2022

The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences provides an excellent environment to conduct your first steps into postgraduate research. Choosing to study for an MSc (by research and thesis) allows you to work directly with our research-active staff who have a considerable breadth of interests and can supervise you across a range of areas in sport and exercise sciences, sports therapy and sports management.

Explore our staff expertise and research projects on offer for Master’s by Research students below. MSc Projects (by Research and Thesis)

• Alternative physical activity interventions for improving health
• Caffeine and immune responses to exercise: is there a genetic influence?
• Does increasing respiratory muscle strength improve breathing pattern, reduce exercise respiratory symptoms and improve exercise performance?
• Examining impacts of novel modes of static transport
• Nutritional strategies to protect the gut during exercise
• Nutrition, immunity and illness in athletes
• Optimising the use of GPS to support team game training and performance
• Physical activity and breathing impacts on blood pressure control
• Psychological skills training to improve endurance performance
• Psychosocial factors related to weight-regulation in combat sports
• Raman Scattering Detection of substances used in sport doping
• Research into the varied roles and value of sport history, heritage and museum sites, practices and cultures in contributing to local, regional, national or wider social, cultural or political issues and debates
• Research into the role of sport and physical activity within expat/migrant community development, health and wellbeing
• Research investing the socio-cultural aspects of global sport and physical cultures; with specific emphasis on the historical or heritage, educational, policy or community identity aspects
• Social Prescribing within the Fitness and Leisure Sector
• Use of exercise rehabilitation to improve exercise capacity and reduce symptoms in people who report exercise respiratory symptoms and/or have respiratory disease (e.g. asthma)
• The effect of muscle pain on knee extensor maximal voluntary contraction
• The role of self-control and habit formation in physical activity and sedentary behaviour
• What is the impact of airway disease on breathing pattern?
• Why does pain not always feel the same? Investigating the variation in response to exertional pain

MSc Projects (by Research and Thesis)

Research investing the socio-cultural aspects of global sport and physical cultures; with specific emphasis on the historical or heritage, educational, policy or community identity aspects: dr geoff kohe.

Projects within this theme may adopt a UK focus or draw from other international contexts, however, will primarily adopt Qualitative Social Science methodologies. Example projects may include studies of sport-event legacies, sport education initiatives, sport and corporate relations, sports workers welfare, or sport governance.

Research into the varied roles and value of sport history, heritage and museum sites, practices and cultures in contributing to local, regional, national or wider social, cultural or political issues and debates: Dr Geoff Kohe

Projects within this theme may adopt a UK focus or draw from other international contexts, however, will primarily adopt Qualitative Social Science methodologies. Example projects may include examinations of international or national sport heritage museums and sites, critique of digital sport heritage spaces, or investigations into public engagements with sport history.

Research into the role of sport and physical activity within expat/migrant community development, health and wellbeing: Dr Geoff Kohe

Projects within this theme may adopt a UK focus or draw from other international contexts, however, will primarily adopt Qualitative Social Science methodologies. Example projects may include mapping engagement with sport/physical activities among migrant populations, interrogating national and domestic government policies on sport resourcing, analysing existing sport-for-development initiatives, or interrogating the role of charity providers within migrant (re)habilitation.

Examining impacts of novel modes of static transport: Dr Katrina Taylor & Dr Sam Smith

The use of e-scooters, and alternative, electric and ‘static’ transport modalities has increased in popularity, and could potentially become the future and primary form of human mobility. Despite their perceived social and environmental benefits, their possible impact on physical inactivity and markers of health has yet to be considered. How should schemes promoting these forms of transport be best developed to account for potential physiological and psychological adaptations that may occur from acute or prolonged use? 2 MRes studentships (One to focus on physiological variables and one to focus on psycho-social impacts).

Alternative physical activity interventions for improving health: Dr Katrina Taylor

This project will expand upon previous research into HIIT and Isometric exercise training and will look to explore the use of novel, low cost, short duration, accessible physical activity interventions. Optimising training interventions for maximal health improvement will be explored while measuring the impact these can have on markers of health and disease.

Physical activity and breathing impacts on blood pressure control: Dr Katrina Taylor & Professsor John Dickinson

Raised blood pressure is associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases and mortality. Physical activity and breathing training have both been demonstrated to reduce raised blood pressure and maintain healthy blood pressure. This project will explore the effects of acute and short-term physical activity, breathing training interventions, and combined interventions on blood pressure readings.

Social Prescribing within the Fitness and Leisure Sector: Dr Katrina Taylor

Social prescribing aims to meet the social, emotional and practical needs of individuals, to improve overall health and wellbeing. The NHS-10 year plan aims to improve personalised care, enabling individuals to make informed choices about support they receive, by improving access to a range of services. The fitness and leisure sector plays a key role in supporting activity opportunities with diverser health and wellbeing benefits. This project is offered in partnership with ukactive, to monitor and analyse findings from an ongoing national evaluation into social prescribing, exploring how it currently connects with fitness and leisure activities in local communities.

Does increasing respiratory muscle strength improve breathing pattern, reduce exercise respiratory symptoms and improve exercise performance?: Professor John Dickinson

This project will investigate whether improving the strength of breathing muscles (e.g. diaphragm) can reduce exercise respiratory symptoms and improve exercise performance. Findings from this project will inform the therapy offered to individuals who report exercise respiratory symptoms that limit their exercise capacity.

What is the impact of airway disease on breathing pattern?: Professor John Dickinson & Dr Carol Smyth

This project will investigate whether there are differences in breathing pattern between health and people with airway disease (e.g. asthma). The project will then investigate whether strategies such as breathing pattern training can reduce the impact of respiratory disease and improve exercise capacity. The project will use 3D motion cameras and require the student to use MATLAB software.

Optimising the use of GPS to support team game training and performance: Professor John Dickinson & Professor James Hopker

The project will focus on using GPS analysis to record individual performance in the team games. The project will as which variable are most valuable to coaches and whether any of the data can be used monitor and influence training and match performance.

Use of exercise rehabilitation to improve exercise capacity and reduce symptoms in people who report exercise respiratory symptoms and/or have respiratory disease (e.g. asthma): Professor John Dickinson & Dr Steve Meadows

This project will investigate the use of exercise as a therapy to reduce exercise respiratory symptoms in people with and without respiratory disease. In a similar design to pulmonary rehab participants will attend group classes and the student will monitor changes in exercise capacity, respiratory function, respiratory symptoms, and quality of life. The outcomes of the project will assess whether patients who do not currently meet the requirements to be referred for pulmonary rehabilitation can benefit from such activity.

Why does pain not always feel the same? Investigating the variation in response to exertional pain: Dr Sam Smith & Dr Lex Mauger

Naturally occurring muscle pain during physical exertion is a well-recognised phenomenon that occurs across all populations. Whilst non-damaging, the perception of exertional pain is typically interpreted as an aversive threat to the body that should be avoided or overcome. Pain is however complex and subjective and is experienced differently both between individuals and for the same individual across different situations and states. The aversive and unpredictable experience of exertional pain can therefore have implications for exercise adherence and performance.

The effect of muscle pain on knee extensor maximal voluntary contraction: Karthikeyan Muthumayandi

PoseNet, which uses the TensorFlow.js library (by Google), estimates the movement. PoseNet can recognise anatomical landmarks and compute and analyse 3D kinematic and spatiotemporal data of human gait using any commercial webcam (please see the picture attached). Despite its potential, the accuracy of a system like this in determining the kinematics parameters of human gait is still unclear. The feasibility and accuracy of measuring gait spatiotemporal and kinematic data with a 2D web camera will be investigated in this research project.

Nutritional strategies to protect the gut during exercise: Professor Glen Davison

Heavy exercise may cause damage to gut cells and a temporary increase in intestinal permeability. This may contribute to gastrointestinal complaints frequently reported by athletes. Strategies that reduce the effects of exercise on gut damage and permeability may be of benefit. Numerous nutritional interventions have been studied, but further research is required to better determine the optimal type, dose and duration of supplementation for optimal benefit. This project will allow the student to investigate the effects of novel nutritional strategies on gut damage and permeability markers in response to exercise.

Caffeine and immune responses to exercise: is there a genetic influence?: Professor Glen Davison

Caffeine has been studied extensively as an ergogenic aid and there is some evidence showing it may protect some components of immune function in response to prolonged exercise. There is, however, large inter-subject variability in responses to caffeine, with some individuals suggested to be ‘non-responders’. Recent research shows this may be related to genetic factors, with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the CYP1A2 gene identified as a key predictor of responses to caffeine. However, there is no current research on the influence of this SNP on immune responses to caffeine, and this will be the aim of this project.

Nutrition, immunity and illness in athletes: Professor Glen Davison

Exercise has been shown to affect most areas of the immune system in some way. Moderate exercise or training may enhance immunity and lower upper respiratory illness (URI) risk whereas intensive training may have the opposite effect in some athletes. Strategies to maintain or enhance immunity are of benefit to such individuals. Nutritional strategies and supplements are an attractive intervention as they are easy to implement within a normal training programme. However, much of the research on their effectiveness is limited in the markers used to quantify immune function and illness risk. This study will investigate a nutritional intervention in this context, with the use of high value (i.e. in vivo and/or clinically relevant) outcome measures.

Psychosocial factors related to weight-regulation in combat sports: Dr Chris Fullerton

Many combat sport athletes actively manipulate their body mass through chronic strategies (gradual energy restriction and exercise training) and acute interventions before weigh-in (energy restriction and dehydration) to gain a competitive advantage against lighter, smaller, and weaker opponents. This project will examine personal, situational, and contextual factors driving these behaviours.

Psychological skills training to improve endurance performance: Dr Chris Fullerton

This project will examine the effectiveness of selected brief psychological skills training interventions (e.g., imagery and self-talk) on competitive endurance performance (e.g., time trial performance in cycling, running, and rowing).

The role of self-control and habit formation in physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Dr Chris Fullerton

Starting and maintaining regular physical activity requires self-control (restraint) to avoid the alternative sedentary option. An important aspect of self-control is the ability to learn new habits and use self-regulatory skills. This project will investigate individual differences in these abilities to identify whether self-control plays a key role in PA and sedentary behaviour.

Raman Scattering Detection of substances used in sport doping: Dr Donna Arnold and Professor James Hopker

The standard protocol for detecting doping in competitive sports often takes several days to perform in a laboratory-based environment and requires complex procedures and expensive equipment. However, the portable nature of RAMAN technology, which has been extensively used in a law enforcement environment, provides an opportunity to take measurements in the field rather than a laboratory environment. Therefore, RAMAN technology provides the potential for both a rapid and field adaptable method for drug detection in a sports environment. Surface-enhanced RAMAN spectroscopy (SERS) is a form of vibrational spectroscopy that can identify analyte substances uniquely. It provides direct structural information about target molecules in solid or solution form and identifies qualitative differences between similar samples. SERS has also been used for quantitative analysis of drugs in mixtures in complex biological samples (e.g. blood and urine). This project aims to apply SERS to detect drugs associated with sports related doping.

Academic staff and research Areas –  School of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Professor Glen Davison

• Sports Nutrition
• Exercise Immunology

Dr Kyra De Coninck

• Anatomy and Function of Fascia
• Myofascial Pain
• Adaptation of fascia to mechanical loading

Professor John Dickinson

• Respiratory problems in athletes
• Disordered breathing during exercise

Dr Chris Fullerton

• Self-regulation
• Affective and perceptual responses to exercise and training

Dr Lucy Hale

• Sport Nutrition

Dr Karen Hambly

• Post Operative rehabilitation and return to sport after articular cartilage repair

Professor James Hopker

• Response to exercise training
• Endurance performance

Dr Geoffery Kohe

• Elite sports works lives
• Sport organisation contexts and relations

Dr Lex Mauger

• Regulation of work rate during exercise
• The role of exercise-induced pain in fatigue and endurance performance

Dr Steve Meadows

• Exercise in cardiovascular disease
• Exercise in Parkinson’s patients
• Broader factors that impact on health and people’s ability to exercise and preserve, or improve their health and functional capacity

Dr Sam Smith

• Regulation of pain during exercise

Dr Carol Smyth

• Breathing mechanics of athletes with and without breathing pattern disorders

Dr Katrina Taylor

• Use of physical activity as an alternative or adjunctive therapy in the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases

Funding opportunities

The EU offers a wide range of funding opportunities in the field of sport, mainly through the Erasmus+ programme.

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EU funding in the field of sport

Erasmus+ sport programme.

Erasmus+ actions in the field of sport promote participation in sport, physical activity and voluntary activities.

Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions

These funding schemes are designed to test the feasibility of new actions and programmes.

European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Both funding initiatives are managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Celebrating 10 Years of Erasmus+ Sport Programme

Since 2014 Erasmus+ Sport promotes sport and physical activities by supporting grassroot sport organisations across Europe. Look back at the evolution and the impact of the programme.

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Streetball4inclusion.

This Erasmus+ project aims to give children at risk of socioeconomic exclusion in Italy and Spain the possibility to play 3-on-3 basketball in safe conditions and under the guidance of experienced coaches.

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EU funding sport projects

These EU funded local projects in Kaunas, Galway, Utrecht and Madrid promote respect, prevention and anti-discrimination through sport.

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Sport Management Research contribution Ranking.

Published annually by the UNT Sports Innovation Project, the ranking is a quantitative assessment of how universities around the world contribute to the scholarly discourse in the field of Sport Management. The year-on-year results are provided so faculty, university administrators, and doctoral students can quickly scan the scholarly engagement of each institution with the field’s three (3) marquee journals.

The criteria.

The following criteria were used for this 2023 preliminary ranking ( changes from the 2022 ranking criteria are noted ):

Publications are limited to three ABDC "A" journals in the field of sport management: (1) Journal of Sport Management, (2) European Sport Management Quarterly, and (3) Sport Management Review. These journals are the official publications of the three leading sport management academies in the world: The North American Society of Sport Management, the European Association for Sport Management, and the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand.

The time-period for inclusion is limited to the decade preceding the evaluation year. For this ranking, publication data from 2012 to 2022 was included.

The program ranking is limited to those institutions with 2 ( or more ) faculty who have at least 2 total publications over the ranking time period. To be included on the list, an institution must have at least 10 'contributions' from scholars who meet these criteria.

The Ranking.

For this year's ranking, 62 institutions from around the world met the inclusion criteria ( up 23 from last year ), which includes: 26 based in the USA, 9 in the UK, 8 in Australia, 6 in Canada, 5 in Germany, 3 in Belgium, 3 in New Zealand, and 1 in France and Sweden (each). 

For each institution, the number of contributors and their ranking is provided. This list is not limited to faculty working in Sport Management programs but rather to any institution-affiliated faculty member or student. Accordingly, this is not a 'program ranking' as the data reflect scholarly engagement from an institutional level-of-analysis.

Individual Ranking (Raw) Data File

Data Collection.

Downloaded RIS entries from EBSCO.

Searched on EBSCO's SPORTDiscus database for each of the journals individually ( e.g., << JN "Journal of Sport Management" >> ). This returns all the articles in EBSCO's system.

Downloaded a file with RIS entries for each article.

Created CSV with article components from RIS files.

Separated the RIS entries in each downloaded file using the RISPy package in python.

Parsed each entry into its various components ( e.g., authors, title, etc. ).

Created a dataframe with these data, which was outputted to a CSV.

Cleaned and summarized data in Excel.

Read the CSV to Excel using Power Query.

Manually added/edited articles based on errors found in EBSCO data.

Manually matched author names to consolidate duplicates ( e.g., classify "Zeigler, Earle F.", "Zeigler, E. F.", and "Zeigler, Earle" as the same person ).

Manually determined the current institution for each author who met the inclusion criteria.

Used Excel tools ( Power Query, formulas, and Pivot Tables ) to calculate totals based on the inclusion criteria.

Change/Omission Form. .. If there are errors or omitted data, enter them here. 

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