PhD exploring adaptations/responses to training across the lifespan.

This Studentship will provide an exciting opportunity to work in the evolving area of adaptations to exercise training. This studentship will particularly be looking at the development of non-invasive tools to develop our understanding of adaptations to training across the lifespan.

You will join the Movement Science Group, in the Department Sport and Health Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. You will join an enthusiastic and rapidly developing research team with the position sitting in the new Centre for Rehabilitation. The group has excellent facilities and resources both within the University’s human performance laboratories and associated clinical exercise and rehabilitation unit. The group has strong local, national and international collaborations and an excellent working relationship with local NHS trusts and clinicians. The successful candidate would be expected to present at scientific meetings and publish. The student will build on the group’s previous work in clinical exercise science and work to develop a tool suitable for a range of participants, from children, athletes through to people with neurological conditions, to monitor exercise responses and adaptations during a range of exercise interventions. The studentship will require a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science or related discipline and in addition they should be comfortable in a multidisciplinary environment, working with a range of populations, including clinical. Appropriate training will be provided.

The successful applicant will be subject to a CRB check http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/crb/

For full details and application and reference forms please go to http://www.shs.brookes.ac.uk/research/studentships and Depart of Sport and Health Sciences.

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