Bioenergetics and Human PerformanceThe Bioenergetics and human performance research group focuses on understanding and enhancing human performance through integrated physiological, psychological and biomechanical lines of enquiry. Our research specialisms include muscle O2 uptake and critical power, lower limb injury mechanisms, and cognitive and psychosocial determinants of human performance.
Human performance transcends all ages of life and is critical in health and disease and for supreme athletic performance. Through our interdisciplinary approach we aim to understand the factors that limit human performance and implement strategies (exercise, pharmacological, psychological, and technological) to improve performance across a range of human populations.
While much of our research is conducted within a sporting context, it maintains applications in non-sporting environments where individuals perform under stressful conditions such as in business, education and medicine. As illustrated by our various current projects, the group collaborates extensively with external partners nationally and internationally and with academic colleagues in the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and other Schools within the University.
As part of a research-intensive University, the School maintains excellent facilities to support scientific research. Research is grant funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as well as business partners such as the Rugby Football Union, Kellogg’s and GlaxoSmithKline.
