Keynote Speakers
Prof Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey FBASES
Professor of Applied Disability Sport, Loughborough University
Vicky is one the few sport scientists that continues to provide applied sport science while maintaining a full-time academic position at Loughborough University as a Professor in Applied Disability Sport. Vicky has attended/been involved in the Paralympic Games (Atlanta 1996 – present). Highlights include, working in the ParalympicsGB Performance Centre in London (2012) and leading the applied sport science project for the GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) heading into Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, where they became gold medalists. She is currently involved in applied projects with the wheelchair sports of basketball, tennis and rugby leading into Paris 2024.
Vicky received a BASES Award for Good Practice in Applied Sport Science (2005), and was awarded BASES Fellowship (2011). Vicky served as a member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Sport Science and Medicine Group 2005-2010. In 2017, Vicky received the prestigious IPC Paralympic Scientific Award and was named one of Loughborough Universities Inspirational Women in Sport.
Vicky is editor of one of the few scientific international handbooks on sport physiology and biomechanics in adapted sports ‘Wheelchair Sport’ (Human Kinetics) and has over 200 peer reviewed publications in this field. She has many on-going international studies spanning Asia, Canada, USA and Europe.Vicky is the Director of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) which has attracted over £4M of funding. This research centre has an international reputation that was recently awarded the Loughborough University VCs 2022 award for research and innovation that has delivered significant and sustained impact on society.
Keynote Presentation Title: The importance of Sport Science in the Paralympic movement: Reflections of the last 25 years
Many principles in training prescription and performance monitoring with Para athletes are directly transferable from Olympic practice, including the periodization and tapering of athlete loads around competition, yet considerations for the physiological consequences of an athlete's impairment and the interface between athlete and equipment are vital when targeting interventions to optimize in-competition performance. This talk will cover the evolution of Paralympic sports science as a specialty and how it has evolved from ‘rehabilitation medicine’ into trying to provide the same support for Para athletes as Olympic athletes.
Vicky is one the few sport scientists that continues to provide applied sport science while maintaining a full-time academic position at Loughborough University as a Professor in Applied Disability Sport. Vicky has attended/been involved in the Paralympic Games (Atlanta 1996 – present). Highlights include, working in the ParalympicsGB Performance Centre in London (2012) and leading the applied sport science project for the GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) heading into Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, where they became gold medalists. She is currently involved in applied projects with the wheelchair sports of basketball, tennis and rugby leading into Paris 2024.
Vicky received a BASES Award for Good Practice in Applied Sport Science (2005), and was awarded BASES Fellowship (2011). Vicky served as a member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Sport Science and Medicine Group 2005-2010. In 2017, Vicky received the prestigious IPC Paralympic Scientific Award and was named one of Loughborough Universities Inspirational Women in Sport.
Vicky is editor of one of the few scientific international handbooks on sport physiology and biomechanics in adapted sports ‘Wheelchair Sport’ (Human Kinetics) and has over 200 peer reviewed publications in this field. She has many on-going international studies spanning Asia, Canada, USA and Europe.Vicky is the Director of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) which has attracted over £4M of funding. This research centre has an international reputation that was recently awarded the Loughborough University VCs 2022 award for research and innovation that has delivered significant and sustained impact on society.
Keynote Presentation Title: The importance of Sport Science in the Paralympic movement: Reflections of the last 25 years
Many principles in training prescription and performance monitoring with Para athletes are directly transferable from Olympic practice, including the periodization and tapering of athlete loads around competition, yet considerations for the physiological consequences of an athlete's impairment and the interface between athlete and equipment are vital when targeting interventions to optimize in-competition performance. This talk will cover the evolution of Paralympic sports science as a specialty and how it has evolved from ‘rehabilitation medicine’ into trying to provide the same support for Para athletes as Olympic athletes.
Prof Jason Gill FBASES
Professor of Cardiometabolic Health, University of Glasgow
Jason Gill is Professor of Cardiometabolic Health in the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He leads an active multi-disciplinary research group investigating the prevention and management of vascular and metabolic diseases and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. This work includes studies into the epidemiology of lifestyle-related factors (principally physical activity, diet and sleep) and cardiometabolic disease risk, particularly why certain population groups appear to have increased susceptibility to the adverse effects of an ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle; lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of cardiometabolic disease; and investigations into the mechanisms by which diet and exercise regulate insulin sensitivity and lipoprotein metabolism. In recent years, he has become increasingly focused on collaborative projects involving biological and medical scientists working together with social scientists and external stakeholders to develop realistic and sustainable lifestyle interventions for the primary and secondary prevention of chronic diseases. Jason has contributed to the UK Physical Activity guidelines, NICE guidelines for prevention of type 2 diabetes, and SIGN guidelines for obesity and cardiovascular disease. He is chair of the Diabetes UK Research Strategy Group for Prevention and Management of Type 2 diabetes, and an editor at several journals including the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Sports Sciences. He is also a Fellow of BASES and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In addition, he is Director of the MSc in Sport and Exercise Science & Medicine at the University of Glasgow and plays an active role in communicating science related to physical activity, diet and obesity to the widest possible audience including a number of appearances on TV documentaries.
Keynote Presentation Title: The importance of place: how where you live and where your (grand)parents came from affects your metabolic health
Physical activity, dietary intake and adiposity all influence our cardiometabolic health. However, the extent to which they do this depends on a number of innate and wider environmental factors. Where we live, and where our parents and grandparents came from, encapsulates a range of ethnic and socioeconomic factors which influence i) the extent to which physical inactivity and obesity affect health outcomes, and ii) the effectiveness of health behaviour change interventions. This talk will explore biological and behavioural factors underpinning these differences, as well as how this knowledge can help inform the development of better lifestyle-based interventions to improve health in a range of settings.
Symposia Speakers
Dr Lynne Boddy (Liverpool John Moores University)
Prof David Broom FBASES (Coventry University)
Dr Susan Brown (Edinburgh Napier University)
Prof Angel Chater (University College London)
Dr Kat Daniels (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Prof John Dickinson FBASES (University of Kent)
Gráinne Donnelly (Absolute.Physio)
Prof Stuart Fairclough FBASES (Edge Hill University)
Dr Matthew Green FBASES (Premier League)
Dr Steve Ingham FBASES (Supporting Champions)
Ailish King (UKAD)
Dr Carl Langan-Evans (Liverpool John Moores University)
Dr Lex Mauger (University of Kent)
Dr Isabel Moore (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Dr Stafford Murray (England and Wales Cricket Board)
Dr Emma O'Donnell (Loughborough University)
Dr Laurie Patterson (Leeds Beckett University)
Dr Jamie Pringle (Performance Science Distillery)
Dr Nikita Rowley (Coventry University)
Dr Mustafa Sarkar (Nottingham Trent University)
Prof William Stewart (University of Glasgow)
Dr Dominic Townsend (Premier League)
Dr Sam Winter (Loughborough University)