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  1. Expertise – Institute for Health Research

    The Institute for Health Research's expertise is wide ranging. From cardiovascular health to image and performance enhancing drugs, and children's health to green spaces. Find out more about our interest groups.

  2. Women's Physiology and Nutrition Symposium 2025

    The Women's Physiology and Nutrition Symposium is hosted by exercise metabolism researchers Dr Jennifer Barrett, Dr Kelsie Johnson and Dr Juliette Strauss from our Research institute of Sport and Exercise Science department.

  3. Kelly Massey

    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.

  4. Armed Forces Champion

    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.

  5. Biomechanics Research Group

    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.

  6. Applied Sport Psychology Research Group (ASP-RG)

    The Applied Sport Psychology Research Group (ASP-RG) conducts applied research and consultancy to understand performance excellence and to optimise human functioning from a psychological and socio-psychological perspective.