News and Events - School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.
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- Ruthless sportspeople often suspend their sense of right and wrong when they step onto the field of play – viewing sport as a different world where they jettison responsibility to act in a moral way.
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- 25/10/2019
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- Exercising before eating breakfast burns more fat, improves how the body responds to insulin and lowers people's risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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- 18/10/2019
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- Drs Sang-Hoon Yeo, Ned Jenkinson, Raymond Reynolds and Sam Lucas win UK-Korea Partnering Award 2019.
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- 14/10/2019
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- Teenage boys rely on social media to access information about living a healthy lifestyle – but rather than being victims of online harms, the majority are able to use humour, irony and banter to navigate social media.
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- 09/10/2019
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- A technique that will enable cancer patients to hold their breath during prolonged bouts of radiotherapy treatment has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
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- 20/09/2019
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- The UK's top doctors are recommending over-65s take up dancing, bowls or even activities like tai chi to help stave off injury and illness in old age.
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- 11/09/2019
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- Older people who have never taken part in sustained exercise programmes have the same ability to build muscle mass as highly trained master athletes of a similar age, according to new research.
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- 30/08/2019
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- Ellena is a 3rd year physiotherapy student from the University of Birmingham. She recently travelled to Lusaka, Zambia on a four-week physiotherapy placement.
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- 13/08/2019
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- An online course designed to help teachers better understand young people's uses of social media and how it influences their health and wellbeing is being launched at the University of Birmingham.
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- 08/08/2019
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- Ciara O'Brien and Grace Tidmarsh, PhD students within SportExR, won prizes in the highly competitive Young Investigator Awards competition at the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress in Prague this month.
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- 30/07/2019
Seminars & Events
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- 23/11/2019
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- University of Birmingham
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 26/06/2020
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- University of Birmingham
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 27/06/2020
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 12/09/2020
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 17/10/2020
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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