At the University of Canberra, we are ideally and uniquely positioned in the nation’s capital to become Australia’s leading university for sport education and research. An area where we are making an impact is through our women in sport research through engagement with our grassroots, community, and high-performance sporting networks, and through our world-renowned academic and professional staff, and industry partnerships.
As part of the University of Canberra Sport Strategy, UCRISE will welcome PhD Scholarships co-funded with an industry partner focusing on women in sport. Through these scholarships we will address the gaps in knowledge, practice and management of women in high performance sport, community sport, coaching, officiating, leading sports organisations, the media, sports integrity, and sports law.
ACT Brumbies
Evaluating the physical demands of women’s rugby union.
Director UCRISE, High Performance Sport
Canberra Raiders
Talent Identification, anthropometry, and Performance analytics in NRLW & NRL.
Associate Professor Anatomy and Physiology
Capital Football
Promoting health and performance in elite and youth female football athletes.
Assistant Professor in Sport Analytics
EOlab
Influence of post-exercise hot water immersion heat acclimation on endurance and neuromuscular performance in female athletes.
Deputy Director UCRISE, Environmental Physiology
QLD Academy of Sport
Performance, profiling and tapering elite female swimmers.
Director UCRISE, High Performance Sport
Other UC sport research projects are addressing several topics in women in sport in areas ranging from nutrition to warm-ups, iron deficiency and supplementation, and low-energy availability practices. These projects involve a PhD candidate, one or more UC supervisors, and an industry partner. The research outcomes should be useful for coaches and athletes, as well as sports science and sports medicine practitioners, and academic researchers.
Australian Powerlifting Union
Nutritional approaches to support refeeding post chronic energy restriction in athlete
Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics
UC7
The use of acute exercise interventions as strategies to improve athlete readiness and physical performance in team sport athletes
Sport and Exercise Science
UCRISE
The effect of iron deficiency on sport specific performance among female athletes and supplementation to mitigate the consequences experienced from deficiencies
Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Science
AIS
Uncoupling exposure from disease: improving epidemiological rigour in the study of low energy availability and its translation to practice in elite female athletes
Sport and Exercise Medicine
