Latest news from the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
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- Ahead of the Olympic Games in London this summer, university athletes from across the country were handed the opportunity of a lifetime as the annual British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Visa Outdoor Athletics Championships were held in the new purpose built Olympic Stadium in Stratford, over the weekend of the May 4-7. The first event to reach its conclusion at the Championships was the women's 2000m steeplechase, won by the University of Birmingham's Pippa Woolven.
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- 17/05/2012
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- Staff at the School of Sport an Exercise Sciences have been awarded £10,000 by the Higher Education Academy to explore the experiences of home and international students participating in an outdoor groupwork skills course.
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- 10/05/2012
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- SportEx Doctoral Researcher Mark Holland (supervised by Professor Joan Duda and Dr Jennifer Cumming) has received the Michael K. O'Rourke PhD Publication Award within the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.
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- 01/05/2012
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- Dr Michael White has been appointed Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal, Experimental Physiology.
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- 01/05/2012
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- Dr Maria Kavussanu has been recently appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. This is the official journal of the Association for the Applied Sport Psychology and is published by Routledge.
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- 24/04/2012
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- Ground breaking research by Dr Michael Parkes (Senior Lecturer in Applied Physiology) on 'The limits of breath holding' is featured in April 2012's Scientific American.
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- 19/04/2012
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- The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (SportEx) is celebrating the success of second year Doctoral Student, Richard Bruce, at a recent scientific meeting held in London's Queen Elizabeth II, Conference Centre.
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- 17/04/2012
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- Leading dementia scientists from across the globe will gather in Birmingham this week for Alzheimer's Research UK Conference 2012, the country's largest dedicated dementia research conference. The event, which takes place on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 March, allows scientists to share the very latest research findings and hear about progress being made towards defeating dementia.
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- 23/03/2012