Staff profile
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Job title: Reader
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Dept: Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure
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Tel: 01227 782375
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Campus: Canterbury
Biography
Ian has been a Sport and Exercise Scientist for over 30 years, having completed his undergraduate studies at Liverpool John Moores University in 1981 and having his final year undergraduate dissertation, on swimming, published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (Swaine and Reilly, 1983). He went on to work for Leeds Sports Development Unit as a Sport Scientist, with responsibilities for promoting adult health-related fitness in the city. At the same time he completed a PhD in the Cardiovascular Studies Unit within the Faculty of Clinical Medicine at Leeds University. He has worked at Sunderland, De Montfort and currently, Canterbury Christ Church University. Ian is a former keen competitive swimmer having reached top 3 in the country at 100m Breast-stroke. Subsequently he has completed numerous marathons, triathlons and mountain biking events.
Research & Scholarly Interests
Ian's main research expertise is within "the effects of Isometric exercise on resting blood pressure" and he has supervised several PhD students to completion within this research area. He has also published numerous papers on this subject and has presented work around the world.
Ian also has considerable research experience within the 'science of swimming' and has spent much of his academic career developing and researching "the use of dry-land ergometry in understanding swimming performance". His work in this area is known around the world for innovative development of novel swimming machines that have been used to enhance the understanding of swimming performance. His most recent prototype swimming machine has been patented by Canterbury Christ Church University.
He has also done considerable research work on "physical activity and health in children", having supervised two PhD student theses on this topic. His studies have included analysis of the physiological effects of school PE and health-related effects of brisk walking in primary school children. His PhD students have used portable breathing analysis systems and physical activity assessment via accelerometry to enhance our understanding of the benefits that this type of physical activity can bring to children.
Finally, he has published research work on other "health" topics, such as amenorrhoea in young women runners, anaphylaxis in an asthmatic runner, and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in older men who exercise regularly. Ian has been a lifelong asthma sufferer and many years ago he pioneered swimming programmes for asthmatic children.
In total Ian has had about 80 published research articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals. He has had patents and grants relating to his work. He has directly supervised about 15 PhD students to completion, some of whom have been awarded prizes for their work whilst being supervised by him. Recently, he has been invited to present his research work in Oslo, Indianapolis and Verona.
Selected Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
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Perkins GM, Owen A, Kearney EM, Swaine IL. (2008) Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in 40–65 year-old men performing recommended levels of physical activity, compared to sedentary men. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 43: 136–141.
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Wiles JD, Coleman DA, Swaine IL. (2010) Effects of performing isometric training at two intensities in healthy young males. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 3: 419-428.
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Devereux G, Wiles JD, Swaine IL. (2010) Reductions in resting blood pressure after 4 weeks of isometric exercise training. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 109(4) 601-606.
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Swaine et al. (2010) Reproducibility of Limb power output and cardiopulmonary responses to exercise using a novel swimming training machine. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 31: 1-6.
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Devereux et al (2010) Markers of isometric training intensity and reductions in resting blood pressure (Journal of Sports Sciences, 29: 715-724.
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Owen A, Wiles JD and Swaine IL (2010) Isometric Exercise and resting blood pressure: A meta-analysis. Journal of Human Hypertension. 12: 796-800.
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Ford P, Bailey R, Coleman D, Stretch D, Winter E, Woolf-May K, Swaine I (2010) Energy expenditure and perceived effort during brisk walking and running in8-11 year old children, Paediatric Exercise Science,22: 569-580.