Keynote Speakers
Professor Shona Halson
Australian Catholic University
Title: Sleep and the Elite Athlete
Bio
Professor Shona Halson is from ACU’s School of Behavioural and Health Sciences and prior to this was the Head Recovery Physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport for over 15 years and has been a part of three Olympic campaigns with the Australian Olympic Committee. Her research focuses on sleep, recovery and fatigue and she has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and multiple book chapters. Shona is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance and also provides consultancy services to the Australian Open Tennis Tournament and Nike as part of both the Nike Performance Council and Nike Sports Research Advisory Group. Shona also consults to a number of international professional sporting teams and Defence organisations.
Professor Wendy Hardeman
University of East Anglia
Title: Evidence-based interventions to support population-wide changes in physical activity
Bio
Professor Wendy Hardeman is from the University of East Anglia and President-Elect of the European Health Psychology Society. Her research programme focuses on the development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions, including physical activity, healthy eating, medication adherence and delivery of evidence-based care. Her research interests include scalable behaviour change interventions, the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1, intervention fidelity, and process evaluation of complex interventions.
Symposia Speakers
Dr Alun Williams FBASES (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dr Andrea Faull-Brown (University of Worcester)
Dr Andy Smith FBASES (Unattched)
Dr Carly McKay (University of Bath)
Dr Chris Wagstaff (University of Portsmouth)
Dr Dale Esliger (Loughborough University)
Dr Edward Chambers (Imperial College London)
Dr Francesca Cavallerio (Anglia Ruskin University)
Dr Garry Tew (Northumbria University)
Dr Grant Abt FBASES (University of Hull)
Dr Kirsty Hicks (Northumbria University)
Dr Luke Gupta (English Institute of Sport)
Dr Mark Faghy (University of Derby)
Dr Mark Noon (Coventry University)
Dr Mark Ross (Edinburgh Napier University)
Dr Matt Taberner (Unattached)
Dr Mustafa Sarkar (Nottingham Trent University)
Dr Nathan Smith (University of Manchester)
Dr Neil Maxwell FBASES (University of Brighton)
Dr Paul Ansdell (Northumbria University)
Dr Payoshni Mitra (Birkbeck Sport Business Centre)
Dr Rita De Oliveria (London South Bank University)
Polly McGuigan (University of Bath)
Prof Adrian Taylor FBASES (University of Plymouth)
Prof Rhodri Lloyd (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Prof Shona Halson (Australian Catholic University)
Prof Susan Moug (Glasgow University)
Prof Wendy Hardeman (University of East Anglia)