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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- 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
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- Birmingham researchers are searching for volunteers to take part in a new study to see if eating a Mediterranean-style diet and being more physically active could improve brain function and reduce dementia risk.
- Date:
- 21/06/2019
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- Andy Sanderson, PhD student within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, has won the 2019 Michael O'Rourke prize for the best PhD Publication from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences
- Date:
- 21/06/2019
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- Exciting opportunity for Chartered Physiotherapist
- Date:
- 17/06/2019
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- Research from SportExR on improving health and employment outcomes for homeless youth has contributed to the toolkit "Closing the employment gap for young people"
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- 28/05/2019
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- Collaborative partnerships between all sizes and sectors of industry and the University of Birmingham to drive successful outcomes
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- 24/05/2019
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 19/10/2019
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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
- Date
- 23/11/2019
- 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.
- Categories:
- Open Day
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