Our doctoral researchers
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Seeking to evaluate the image impact of hosting sports events on host nations, with a specific focus on Saudi Arabia, as a Muslim and Arabic society.
Exploring the role of sport for women’s development in the Arabian Gulf region, as well as Sport for Development and Peace including violent extremism, soft power and managing SDP.
Advancing understanding of women’s sport participation in Saudi Arabia, in the context of the ongoing social developments and reforms guided by the national policy strategy - Vision 2030.
Effects of a resistance exercise programme with different exercise parameters on the risk of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis in postmenopausal women.
Working on the relationship between exercise and metabolic health related chronic liver disease and insulin resistance in patients with impaired glucose regulation on different ethnicities.
Anna's main research area is sport for development and peace, specifically to aid refugees and to abate youth violence.
Football coaches’ immigration. Interest includes factors that facilitated coaches' migration, coaches’ interaction and integration, the role of networks, the ripple effects therein.
Achieving positive outcomes from fitness testing in secondary school physical education and working with pupils as well as teachers to do this. Passion for promoting physical activity for all.
Researching whether students can improve health and wellbeing through STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subjects - STEM Active.
An analysis of the sociocultural impacts of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
I am investigating harmful psychological outcomes for mobile fitness technology users – what are they, how do they occur and for whom.
Is Physical Education Dead? A Study into the relevance of Physical Education in contemporary education across the city of Kingston Upon Hull.
Transnational football fandom in the process of globalization/glocalization, using the example of Chinese EPL fans to understand how indigenous socio-cultural contexts engage with global sport
