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.
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.
Explore our pioneering use of omic techniques to study muscle adaptation, revealing new insights into muscle growth, injury prevention, and recovery in athletes.
Learn how our research on female athletes uncovers the impact of hormonal changes on performance, helping develop personalised training and nutrition plans for women.
Discover how Dynamic Proteome Profiling reveals changes in protein quality in human muscle as we age, providing insights into improving lifelong health and muscle ageing.
Read the case studies to find out the type of work the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour are undertaking including: animal behaviour studies, mindfulness, and experiments into pain and pleasure.
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This study, funded by the NIHR, intends to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The Centre for the Port and Maritime History focuses on port cities and examines their relationship to maritime ventures and enterprise. Research examines: urban history, British merchant marine advertising, Liverpool and the British Empire in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
We are a group of academics and scholarly informed practitioners with great experience in delivering ground-breaking academic, market research and consultancy projects on the subject areas of digital marketing and retailing.