Seminar speaker series

During term-time we invite leading researchers to give seminars which are attended by staff, undergraduate and research students, and guests. Here you can view the term's programme of upcoming seminar speakers and their chosen topics.

Next seminar:

TBA

Further information

For further information please contact our seminar coordinator: Dr Stephen Bailey
Email: S.J.Bailey@exeter.ac.uk

Previous seminars

• 'The RPE scale has straight-jacketed perceptual research examining the awareness of the sensation of fatigue during exercise'
  Professor Alan St Claire Gibson, Northumbria University
  
• 'Carbohydrates intake during exercise: should guidelines be changed and adjusted?'
  Professor Asker Jeukendrup, University of Birmingham
• 'Measurement in Sports Psychology'
  Dr Richard Fletcher, Massey University
  
• 'Supporting sedentary people to increase physical activity levels: Theory and evidence'
  Dr Falko Sniehotta, University of Aberdeen
• 'Blood-muscle oxygen flux during exercise: Data versus dogma'
  Professor David Poole, Kansas State University
• 'Determinants of the ventilatory response to exercise in health and disease: the "ventilatory efficiency" issue'
  Professor Brian Whipp, Crickhowell
  
• 'Physical activity and health in children and adolescents: insights from 'down-under'
  Dr Rebecca Abbot, University of Queensland
  
• 'Ageing Arteries and the Influence of Lifestyle Factors: Can the Cardiovascular System Age 'Successfully'
  Dr Phil Gates, University of Exeter
  
• 'Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of common cancers'
  Dr John Saxton, Reader in Sheffield Hallam University
  
• 'Is exercise bad for you?'
  Lindy Castell, Senior University of Oxford
• 'Fatigue, fitness and exercise after stroke'
  Dr. Gillian Mead, Edinburgh University
• 'Ageing arteries and the influence of lifestyle factors: can the cardiovascular system age 'successfully?'
  Dr. Phil Gates, University of Exeter (PCMD)
  
• 'Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of lung disease'
  Dr Lee Romer, Brunel University
  
• Getting people to walk more: the development, evaluation and refinement of a theory-based intervention
  Professor David French, Coventry University
  
• 'Is Exercise Bad for the Heart?'
  Professor Greg Whyte, Liverpool John Moores University
  
• 'Measurement and perceptions of activity in people with low back pain'
  Meredith Perry, University of Otago, New Zealand
  
• 'Biomechanical Optimisation of Breast Support'
  Dr Joanna Scurr, University of Portsmouth
• 'Mechanisms linking climate to ecosystem change: physiological aspects and ecological implications'
  Dr Gal Dubnov-Raz, Paediatric Obesity, Exercise and Sport Medicine, Safra Children's Hospital Sheba Medical Centre, Israel.
• 'Rehabilitation following autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI): A biomechanical challenge for exercise physiologists'
  Professor Timothy Ackland, University of Western Australia.
• 'Limitations to the use of Time to Exhaustion as a Criterion for Assessing the Improvement in Exercise Tolerance Consequent to an Intervention'
  Professor Brian J. Whipp
• 'Future technology and applications for sports biomechanics and coaching'
  Professor David Kerwin, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
• 'Dr Strangelove's Salute: Insights into postural motor control from involuntary movements'
  Dr Martin McDonagh, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham.
• 'Physical activity and sedentary behaviours in young people: Teens and screens, bums on seats'
  Professor Stuart Biddle