By addressing critical issues from safeguarding athletes in sport to the long-term impacts of career-ending injuries and more with commitment, we're utilising sport as a vehicle for positive change.
Here's what we're doing.
Empowering people and communities with sport.
From safeguarding young athletes to expanding accessibility and representation, we're pioneering positive change.
Our researchers are working to create safe environments for youth in sport. They’re using para sport to boost the visibility and inclusion of disabled people in sub-Saharan Africa.
They’re applying novel technology to remove human biases from football coaching and team selection by utilising emerging technologies like AI.
Inadequate equipment. Career-ending injuries. Inclusivity barriers. This all needs to change, now.
Loughborough University’s award-winning partnership with adidas tailors sportswear to every body, empowering athletes and particularly women with better-fitting, more ergonomic and more temperature-sensitive gear, from bodysuits to bras.
In their pursuit of better performing kit, whether bicycles or cricket helmets, Loughborough University engineers are discovering improvements to sports equipment with implications for safety and performance in areas ranging from aeronautics to workplace safety.
Listen to the human stories behind our cutting-edge sport research.
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A century of experience enhancing minds and bodies through research and innovation has empowered us to pursue a better, fairer, healthier world.
At Loughborough University, we're a diverse team of students, researchers, and professionals united by a common goal; to make the world a better place, now more urgently than ever.
Because the world can't wait. Neither should you.
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Our sports legacy is about more than winning medals. It's about creating opportunities for everyone, excelling in academics and athletics, and promoting equity and inclusion on the field and in the classroom. It’s about bringing together sport, health and wellbeing for the benefit of all.