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Professor Richard Winsley
Director of Education and Student Experience
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01392 726726
Baring Court BC136
Baring Court, University of Exeter St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
I am a teaching Professor of Sport and Health Sciences Education and currently the Director of Education and Student Experience in Public Health and Sport Sciences
I completed my PhD at the Children‘s Health and Exercise Research Centre at the University of Exeter investigating the determinants of aerobic fitness in children. Subsequently I spent time as a post-Doctoral research fellow at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospitals Trust, investigating heart rate variability modification with exercise training in cardiac rehabilitation patients. I then worked for 3-years as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist in the National Health Service at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals with both cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation patients in addition to coordinating a GP exercise on prescription scheme. I then re-joined the University of Exeter which has allowed me the on-going privilege of expanding my teaching and research interests but more importantly to work with the next generation of our students.
Broad research / teaching specialisms:
- Overtraining / overreaching in children and adults
- Children’s cardiovascular function and exercise
- Clinical exercise physiology and exercise prescription
- Learning styles in children and adults
Qualifications
- BA(Ed) Hons. University of Exeter 1993
- PhD University of Exeter 1997
Research group links
Research
Research interests
- Overtraining / overreaching in children and adults
- Children’s cardiovascular function and exercise
- Learning styles in children and adults
Research projects
- HEFCE Catalyst project - Addressing barriers to student success: Transforming Transitions. 2017-2019
Research grants
- 2017 HEFCE
Transforming transitions
External Engagement and Impact
Awards
- HEA National Teaching Fellow 2012
- Senior Fellow of the HEA 2011
- University of Exeter Lecturer of the Year 2010
External Examiner Positions
- 2009 - 2014 BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Sciences and Exercise & Health Sciences, University of Gloucestershire
- 2010 - 2014 MSc. Sports Performance and Clinical Exercise Physiology. University of Bedfordshire.
- 2014 - 2018 BSc. Sports Science and FnD Sports Science. Bangor University
- 2021 - 2025 BSc Sport, Exercise and Health. University of Birmingham
External positions
- I have acted as an external consultant to a number of organisations including Manchester United Soccer Schools, English Institute of Sport and RFU South-West academy.
- Contributor to the International Olympic Committee Athlete Learning Gateway – Introduction to Exercise Physiology.
- Educational consultant to Clinical Prevention and Rehabilitation (CP+R), Harley Street, London
Invited lectures
King Saud University: King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Quality assurance in Exercise & Sport Science programmes in Higher Education: a UK perspective.
St Georges Medical School Olympic Sports Medicine conference: Overtraining and burnout in young athletes.
Michigan State University: Michigan, USA. Overtraining in youth athletes.
University of South Florida: Tampa, USA. Invited educational roundtable - the future of kinesiology in University education.
North American Society of Pediatric Exercise Medicine: Minneapolis. Compendium of physical activity energy expenditure in youth.
CP+R: London. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Clinical populations.
Teaching
I am currently the Director of Education and Student Experience overseeing the education provision in Public Health and Sport Sciences. My teaching portfolio includes lecturing on both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in the area of basic and applied exercise physiology. This allows me to share my experience and understanding of the role of exercise for normal, clinical and paediatric populations through my teaching.
- Human Anatomy and Kinanthropometry
- Strength & Conditioning Physiology
- Sports Training Physiology
- Clinical Exercise Prescription
- Paediatric Exercise Physiology
- Paediatric Exercise and Health
I am an active member of the Higher Education Academy, of which I am a Senior Fellow, and was honoured to be awarded a HEA National Teaching Fellowship in 2012. I have acted as External Examiner at a number of institutions including the University of Bangor, University of Gloucestershire and the University of Birmingham.