20 years of RISES
The Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences is celebrating 20 years in 2017. RISES will be marking the anniversary with a number of events taking place throughout the year.
The Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences is celebrating 20 years in 2017. RISES will be marking the anniversary with a number of events taking place throughout the year.
The Physical-Literacy group at Liverpool John Moores University is developing a physical literacy consensus statement for England.
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Within the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, we're looking to recruit volunteers for a skin function study.
Kelly is a former international 400m athlete for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and has Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medals to her name. She was one of the first sport scholars to study with LJMU in the late 2000’s and has been a lecturer with our School of Sports and Exercise Sciences since 2018.
Find out more about Dr Gus Ryrie our Armed Forces Champion, a lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, who served in the Regular and Reserve Army for a period of 20 years before following a second career in higher education.
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Our research is applicable to clinical and sport and exercise biomechanics. Our focus includes: musculo-skeletal growth and development, gait analysis, virtual rehabilitation, postural stability, footwear biomechanics, and artificial neural networks.
Partnership Grants of up to £3000 are available to schools to enable students to carry out science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) projects. The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences runs two of these projects per year.