PhD reflections: Building a Healthier World in Dublin

As part of our interdisciplinary work in the Sports Engineering Research Group we help run the parkrun Research Board at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. One of our parkrun PhD students, Allison Dunne, reflects back on her experience of presenting at the recent Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems International Research Conference […]

ISEA Conference, Day 1 – Points of Interest

It’s a balmy 35 degrees here in Vienna, and as the sun shines mercilessly our elite group of Sports Engineers are currently ingesting the latest research at the 8th ISEA Sports Engineering conference. Thankfully the International centre hosting the conference has characteristically efficient air conditioning, so for now at least the only things overheating are […]

Leipzig: meat, no vegetables and Sports Engineering

On the 18-20th November, Leipzig (Figure 1) in East Germany played host to the ANSYS Conference & 27th CADFEM Users´ Meeting. John Hart and Tom Allen from the Sports Engineering Research Group were in attendance, leaving behind cold wet Sheffield in exchange for cold wet Leipzig. ANSYS produce Finite Element (FE) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. FE […]