Kathleen Armour is Head of School in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. Formerly, she was Head of the Department of Sport Pedagogy and prior to that she held a Chair in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. Her main research interest is career-long professional learning for teachers and coaches, and its impact on young people's learning in physical ...

Dr Sarah Aldred describes herself as a skilled, enthusiastic and resourceful scientist. She is an expert in the field of oxidative stress, and has been researching chronic diseases of ageing associated with oxidative stress for more than 10 years.

Paul was born and still lives in Coventry. His undergraduate degree in Sport Studies was completed at De Montfort University and he subsequently gained a PhD on the origins of perfectionism in junior athletes. Whilst completing his PhD, Paul was a lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Bedfordshire. He then joined the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University ...

George is a respiratory physiologist with an interest in pulmonary blood flow and sleep disordered breathing. He is an expert in blood gas manipulation and he uses ultrasonography for non-invasive measurement of physiological variables. George is a dedicated and popular lecturer having received the Excellence in Teaching Award three times. 

Dr Andy Blannin is a lecturer in exercise metabolism and has enjoyed working in the school of Sport and Exercise Sciences since 1996. In that time he has published over 50 research articles and examined 23 PhDs.

Ian’s career in sport education was stimulated through lifelong sport participation. His sport activities have included experience as an athlete and as a coach in sports such as hockey and endurance running. It was experiences such as these that led to him initiating a career that incorporated sport within it. A particular interest in sport psychology that developed during ...

Dr Breen is an expert in the modulation of muscle metabolism through diet and exercise in health and disease.

Matt has been working at the University since 2001. He lectures in coaching and applied sport science on the School’s BSc Applied Golf Management Studies and BSc Sport, Physical Education and Coaching Science undergraduate degrees. He is also the progamme leader of the popular MSc in Sport Coachingdesigned for active coaches, enabling them to combine their coaching practice ...

Professor Carroll has an international reputation in Behaviour Medicine. His research group contributed substantially to the success of the School in the last RAE exercise. The School was joint top in their subject area in the UK.

Dr Jennifer Cumming is an expert in the imagery and observational learning use of athletes, exercisers, and dancers.

Andrew Dewar is a Teaching Associate working on the Sport, Physical Education, and Coaching Science and Applied Golf Management Studies courses.  He is involved in research which investigates athletes’ knowledge, experiences, and use of supplements and performance-enhancing drugs.  Andrew is also interested in continuing the research from his PhD which examined the ...

Professor Duda is internationally known for her expertise on motivational processes and determinants of adherence and optimal functioning in sport, exercise, and dance. She is an experienced mental skills consultant, working with athletes, coaches/instructors, and other performers at all levels. Joan is Director of a large multi-national EC-funded project which aims to promote quality ...

Dr James Fisher is an Exercise Physiologist working in the field of human cardiovascular control. The focus of his laboratory is on the neural regulation of the heart and blood vessels in human health and disease.

Dr Annie Ginty is a Research Fellow who combines multi-disciplinary techniques to provide a better understanding to the vast individual differences in biological responses to acute psychological stress and the health and behavioural outcomes associated with these reactions.

Dr Rob Gray’s work illuminates the dynamics of perception, cognition, and action in skilled performance. His work has the admirable quality of advancing perception-action theory while directly relating to applied problems. He brings real-world activities into the laboratory, where he rigorously investigates fundamental issues related to performance.

Dr Greig is a translational scientist with research interests in the influence of use, disuse, age and disease on human skeletal muscle mass and function. She is particularly research active in nutritional, physical activity and pharmacological interventions to maintain muscle mass in older healthy men and women and in frail patient groups.  

Dr Grey is a motor neuroscience physiologist with interests in cortical/spinal plasticity and neurorehabilitation. He uses non-invasive electrophysiology, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuroimaging techniques to study human movement.

Mark qualified as a PE Teacher from the West London Institute in 1990. After lectureships at the Universities of Kingston and Oxford Brookes, he went on to study for a PhD in professional development before joining Birmingham in 2009. Mark has published research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of sport pedagogy, professional development, ...

Jonathan is one of very few political scientists who have turned their attention to sport.

Mr Herold has a broad research and teaching interest in professional learning and pedagogy of teaching and learning in Physical Education. His main research interests are concerned with significant developments in national and international Initial Teacher Education in Physical Education. A particular research focus is the exploration of the development of subject knowledge and in particular ...

Dr Maria Kavussanu is an expert on morality in sport. She has published extensively in this area and received funding for her research from the ESRC, The Nuffield Foundation, and the World Anti-Doping Agency. She is member of the ESRC Peer Review College, Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Section Editor of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and ...

Dr François-Xavier Li is primarily interested in the optimisation of movement in a variety of contexts (Competition, recreation), populations (elite to elderly) and tasks (running, cycling, golf, walking). He is also Programme Leader and Admissions Tutor for the BSc Sport and Exercise Science

Dr Joanna Long is a post doctoral research fellow working with Dr Anna Phillips in the School of Sport and Exercises.

Dr Sam Lucas is an integrative physiologist whose primary research interests are focused on the mechanisms that regulate human cerebral blood flow in health and disease. He has a specific interest in how cerebral blood flow is regulated with ageing and during stress (esp. hypoxia, exercise, orthostatic, thermal and cognitive) and the resultant impact on function (e.g., breathing control, ...

Kyriaki Makopoulou joined the University of Birmingham in September 2008. She is currently seeking to develop robust, practical and cost-effective tools to measure the iimpact of school-based, collaborative forms of learning on physical education teachers and pupils (2013-present). She has previously investigated Physical Education teachers' health pedagogies and professional development ...

Professor Nikos Ntoumanis (pronounced "Doumanis") is interested in personal and contextual factors that optimise motivation and promote performance, psychological well-being and health-conducive behaviours in various physical activity settings (exercise, sport, physical education). His work is supported by funding from national and international research councils and charities (e.g., ...

Dr Anna C. Phillips is an internationally renowned researcher and Health Psychologist working in Psychoneuroimmunology and Psychophysiology. She has conducted award winning work on stress and vaccination response across the life course.

Lesley has been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, School of Education since 1999 and teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her research interests focus primarily upon sport policy and sports coaching and she has recently written book chapters on youth sport development in the UK and partnership approaches to the delivery of youth sport and physical education. She is ...

Dr Andy Philp is an integrative physiologist, interested in the molecular regulation of skeletal muscle adaptation. The main focus of his work is to examine how diet and exercise interact to regulate skeletal muscle mitochondrial function, adaptive growth and insulin sensitivity in the context of human athletic performance and in metabolic diseases such as sarcopaenia, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Dr Eleanor Quested is a research fellow in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom

Dr Raymond Reynolds has a wide range of interests within the field of human motor control. This includes vestibular control of balance, for which he has recently been awarded a BBSRC New Investigator grant to study the effect of age on vestibular reflexes.

Professor Christopher Ring is a professor of psychology and has enjoyed working in the school of Sport and Exercise Sciences since 1995. He has published over 120 research articles, won grants from research councils, charities and industry, collaborated with experts from many other countries, and supervised 21 doctoral students who are now working at universities around the world. He ...

Dr Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani examines factors related to physical activity, well-being and performance in the workplace, motivational predictors of exercise adoption and adherence, mechanisms of well-being change through physical activity, and the role of self-presentation to adaptive and maladaptive health behaviours across the lifespan.

Professor Janice L. Thompson is a leading expert in the field of public health nutrition and exercise, and their role in preventing and treating risks for obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes across the lifespan.

Martin Toms is a senior lecturer in Sports Coaching in the School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences. 

Martin has been involved in sport coaching and development for a number of years, and has experience of teaching in schools, as well as coaching (Professionally) prior to undertaking posts at University. He has researched, ...

Dr Wallis draws on a diverse range of experiences and expertise, which includes academic and industrial scientist roles as well as practitioner experience with high performance athletes, to enable him to deliver leading edge research and education in the area of Sport and Health Nutrition.

Mike is an exercise physiologist who has long standing interests in the effects of ageing on human muscle function and performance, the control of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems in exercise and integrative physiology in general. 

Sarah Williams is a lecturer in Sport Psychology and Coaching Science. Her interest to study sport was stimulated by her participation in a number of different sporting activities from a young age. Through this involvement she pursued a degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences and then a PhD in Sport Psychology both in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham. ...