Fellows

Dr Steve Atkins FBASES

Steve is the Director of Psychology and Sport at the University of Salford and has been a professional member of BASES since 1997. He has been BASES accredited for over 10 years, and continues to undertake both SE supervision and reviewer roles. He has also delivered a number of professional workshops, and in 2013 led the development and delivery of the BASES annual conference. His research interests relate to sports performance measurement and translational outcomes, with an interdisciplinary focus. He has been lead or co-author on more than 90 research papers, allied to contributions to several books and public communications. Steve continues to deliver sports science support services to a number of clubs and athletes, notably in rugby league, soccer and cycling.

Dr Helen Collins FBASES

Helen is a Sport and Exercise Scientist at the University of Dundee. For over 20years she has demonstrated sustained service to both BASES and the wider sport and exercise science community through her work in sport and, more recently, physical activity and health. Helen has been BASES accredited for 17years with extensive BASES involvement spanning conferences, workshops, publications and SE supervision. Furthermore, Helen has had a long-term association with the UKSCA, helping drive the physical activity agenda within the field of strength and conditioning. Helen’s research expertise has led to many podcast and interview requests, alongside media stories, and she was recently nominated for the University of Dundee’s ‘Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award’. Overall, Helen is an excellent ambassador of BASES and the wider community.

Dr Jo Corbett FBASES

Jo is a Reader in Environmental Physiology in the School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of Portsmouth and member of the Extreme Environments Laboratory where his research and innovation activities examine the role of environmental stressors (heat, cold and hypoxia) in performance, health and disease.  He is a BASES accredited scientist and has provided support and consultancy services to athletes across a variety of sports, from recreational to Olympic level to optimise their performance in extreme environments. He has made many contributions to BASES over his ~15-year membership, including as a BASES workshop convenor, Expert Statement author, Supervised Experience Reviewer and Supervisor, annual conference presenter and as a member Journal of Sports Sciences Editorial Advisory Board.

Dr Audrey Duncan FBASES

Audrey has over 25years experience as an applied practitioner, researcher and academic, Audrey’s work represents a career passionately evidencing how sport and exercise transforms lives.  With early focus on performance sport (to Olympic/World level), currently, as Co-Director, Institute of Sport and Exercise, University of Dundee, Audrey is committed to driving the Physical Activity for Health agenda.  

Throughout, Audrey has been a dedicated advocate and promotor of BASES; from winning the Philip Reid Memorial Award as an early-career researcher to co-organising/hosting the 2019 BASES Student Conference, and complemented by activities including laboratory director, supervised experience reviewer, workshop organiser, author and presenter.  Audrey has held BASES accreditation since 2001.  

This fellowship award recognises Audrey’s outstanding commitment, service and ambassadorial roles to BASES, and the wider community, to date.   

Prof Stuart Fairclough FBASES

Stuart is based at Edgehill University and has been a BASES member for 16 years attaining three periods of accreditation as a sport and exercise scientist (research). He has used this accreditation to benefit the sport and exercise science community through research mentorship and knowledge sharing via various forms of dissemination. Further, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sports Sciences (Physical Activity, Exercise, and Health Section) and has Editorial Board roles for two other international physical activity journals. He has represented the community in esteemed external roles, including the REF2021 Sub-Panel 24 for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism, and as an Expert Group Member for the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines Surveillance Committee and the Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Young People Review. 

Dr Matthew Green FBASES

Matt is BASES High Performance Sport Accredited and is an active supervisor and reviewer across all BASES accreditation pathways. He is also a member of BASES Public and External Affairs Advisory Panel. In his role as Senior Elite Performance Manger at the Premier League, he is responsible for the relationship between the organisations, working closely with BASES to quality assure football science practitioners and provide them with relevant development opportunities. Within his role he has responsibilities across the Elite Performance landscape of First Teams and Academies, which include the areas of sport science, medical, psychology, talent ID and performance analysis, providing support, education, governance and projects that are impactful to a large group of practitioners who work within Premier League football clubs.

Prof Florentina Hettinga FBASES

Florentina is Professor at the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University, where she leads the research theme ‘Promoting and Preserving Health and Wellbeing’. She has published >120 peer-reviewed publications in the field of sport, exercise and/or rehabilitation sciences and a wide international network. Her current research work revolves around exercise and exercise engagement in people with chronic conditions and/or disability, with a particular focus on fatigue, self-regulation and exercise motivation. She is involved in multi-center and cross-University projects on these topics, such as ReSpAct and IDEAL. Also, competition in elite athletes is a major topic of her research. She explores head-to-head competition in middle distance and endurance sports, both in the lab as well as in the field, and developed a framework to better understand competitive performance, pacing and in-race decision-making, interactions between athletes and potential ways to enhance training and performance using avatars. She also explored novel ways to analyse large datasets of competitive performances to better understand athletes’ tactical decision-making and pacing. She is honoured to now ‘complete the set’ and hold Fellowships of BASES, ECSS and ACSM.

Dr Emma Kavanagh FBASES

Emma is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Psychology and Coaching Sciences at Bournemouth University. She is an HCPC Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist having completed the BASES SEPAR route and is a BASES Accredited Chartered Sport and Exercise Scientist. Her research interests are within the academic disciplines of psychology and sociology. Emma's work centres on critically examining abuse in virtual and face-to-face sporting environments, understanding the duty of care and safeguarding. Emma is the current Chair of the British Association of Sport and Exercises (BASES) Integrity Advisory Group, she is also part of a number of research networks which have a clear vision to enhance the climate and environment in which high-performance athletes function. She has worked with BASES on a number of projects linked to increasing integrity in the sport and exercise sciences and enhancing the safeguarding and welfare of practitioners and their clients.