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Sports Science and Exercise Medicine

Exercise and Sports Science researchers in the School of Medical and Health Sciences conduct high-impact scientific research and provide Higher Degree by Research training and supervision in the discipline of exercise and sports science.

Our Centre for Human Performance seeks to understand, improve and optimise human performance. The research is organised into three themes: (1) Basic research on human motor function, (2) human performance, and (3) sport performance. The basic research theme focuses on how the human neuromuscular system works and is affected by different conditions and interventions. The human performance theme uses an interdisciplinary team to positively impact human physical function across the life span in a range of populations. The sport performance theme seeks convergence of knowledge across disciplines and sectors to investigate and solve performance problems in sport.

Our Exercise Medicine Research Institute houses an innovative, multidisciplinary and productive research team in exercise science dedicated to investigating the extent to which exercise can be employed in chronic disease management, principally cancer, to materially improve patient outcomes. The team’s unique convergence of exercise medicine, clinical patient care, and innovation in health interventions has underpinned their achievements in cancer research. Most notably, the multifaceted research in exercise and prostate cancer enables direct translation of research findings into practical outcomes for patient benefit, including the design and implementation of clinical and community-based cancer survivorship programs.

More specifically, the research studies seek to understand the emerging and significant role of exercise medicine in the oncology setting by incorporating a systematic program of research across the cancer survivorship continuum including pre-treatment, active treatment and recovery; living after recovery; advanced cancer and end of life.

Further information about our sports and exercise science research is available at the following webpages:

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