Since joining Canterbury Christ Church University in May 2008, I have held a number of roles and currently I am Course Director for Sport & Exercise Science course. I trained as a sports biomechanist at the University of Chichester between 2002 and 2008, graduating with a Ph.D. in 2009.
The skills I have developed and continue to develop, have lead me to undertake and supervise research covering, golf, kayaking, football, rugby, badminton, haemophilia, gait analysis and load carriage. This variety of application has only been possible through understanding that biomechanical, and more generally, Sport & Exercise skills are applicable beyond the boundaries of the subjects disciplines.
It is this broad scope of interest and application that drew me into the world of Sport & Exercise science, as it affords me the opportunity to work with sport, which has always been my passion, while also being able to contribute to the understanding of how human interact with their environment. This passion informs the manner in which I feel Sport & Exercise science should be taught and so in my teaching strives to give students the opportunity to explore the topics and skills they develop from the sporting context of the sessions, but also beyond, so they are aware of the applications and implications of these techniques and measures in broader contexts.