Research students
Research Students at the University of Brighton are registered with the Brighton Doctoral College (BDC) but conduct their research on a day to basis within the Schools.
Those currently working at Chelsea School of Sport have a broad selection of topics which range across all 4 research groups and are listed below. See also what our past students say.
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Jon Binney
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An investigation into the teaching of non-traditional physical activities and how this influences the professional socialization of undergraduate physical education trainee teachers |
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Sho Botham
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Ethical Issues in the Training and Development of Dance Teachers in the Private Sector A link to her ethicsdance web site, which came out of her PhD work, is below and also a link to her CPD for Dance Teachers blog. http://www.ethicsdance.co.uk/ and http://www.cpdfordanceteachers.wordpress.com/
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Claudia Dolezal C.Dolezal@uni.brighton.ac.uk
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Empowerment in Utilising Tourism Encounters and Community Assets for Tourism Claudia's research project connects the areas of tourism, social anthropology and international development. Through her research she seeks to identify pathways to greater community empowerment by understanding and utilising the often criticised tourism encounter in a community-based tourism setting in less developed countries. The dynamic power relations between what the anthropology of tourism usually calls 'host' and 'guest' are therefore in the centre of this research. Claudia's geographical research focus is South-East Asia. |
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John Doyle
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Visions of Hope: Interventionist sports initiatives as mediatized utopias; a practice-informed critique of Football 4 Peace John has written 2 book chapters, the details of which can be found here. |
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Ben Duncan
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A novel approach to induce increased fat oxidation in humans by brief hypoxia and physical activity Ben recently won the The Routledge Postgraduate Student Exhibition Prize in the Chelsea School Exhibition for his poster entitled "The effect of hypoxic exposure and physical activity on fat metabolism, body composition and weight loss in humans". This can be viewed here. |
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Oli Gibson
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Cross-tolerance acclimation: Cellular stress response to hyperthermia and hypoxia Oli won the 2012 Chelsea School of Sport Exhibition Postgraduate Research Prize with his poster entitled “Effect of Acute Exercise-Heat Exposure on extracellular HSP70" which can be viewedhere. |
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Sean Hamil
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The Governance & Regulation of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) since its Foundation and its Place in the Scottish Football “Ecosystem” |
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Mark Hayes
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Heat Acclimation in High Intensity Intermittent Sprint Exercise |
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Dan Henchy
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The power spectral analysis of cycling power meter files |
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Rodrigo Lucena de Mello
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Rainbow Families on Holiday: Motivations, Destination Choices and Need for Safety My research looks at the motivations and destination choices of the rainbow families (gay and lesbian parented families): I am interested in understanding what factors motivate these families when choosing where to go on holiday and how the decisions take place within the family unit. I believe my research would amplify the voice of these families and add theoretical contribution to knowledge of both families and gays and lesbians. |
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Elena Matzaridou
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Innovative Approaches to the Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union: A comparative policy analysis of four European countries on current situation and the challenges ahead in Sail Yachting Elena won the University of Brighton's Research Student Poster Prize in 2011 with her poster which can be seen here. |
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Jess Mee
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Thermo-tolerance and adaptation to heat acclimation in female endurance runners |
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Jacob Naish
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A critical examination of the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility, Sport for Development and Peace, and football- based development initiatives |
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Carla Ricaurte Quijano cvrq10@brighton.ac.uk
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The planned and the unplanned: self-organisation, complexity, and emergent patterns of tourism governance in Santa Elena, Ecuador
My research explores the interplay between non-linear, stakeholder-led and self-organised dynamics of tourism planning and the formal, linear and government-led planning processes in a tourism destination. The contribution of the study lies in the combination of complexity theory with critical realism, a matching philosophical and methodological framework that emphasises the multi-layered, contextual and unpredictable nature of the tourism system. It also advances the understanding of the complex dynamics involved in destinations’ planning and policy-making, particularly in the context of the shifting approach from government-led tourism planning, to social-led processes of tourism governance. |
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Emma Richards
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An Investigation into the cardiovascular fitness levels of 16-19 year old students after a training intervention study of Speed Interval Training versus continuous training. |
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Georgina Roy
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Feminism in ‘new’ sporting spaces: Gender, subjectivity and the female surfer in Britain |
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Conor Sheehan
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Emotional self-management and its significance for wellbeing in service work Conor’s current research explores the factors affecting the emotional self-management of customer facing agents within the increasingly challenging environment of service work. This research adopts an interdisciplinary approach between the ‘caring’ and ‘service’ professions to further explore the emotional dynamics in agent-customer relationships and the propensity of emotional self-management to influence agents’ personal and professional fulfilment. |
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Drew Smith
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Repeated cooling acclimation and intermittent sprint exercise in hot humid conditions |
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Karl Stevenson
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An ecologically valid investigation into anticipatory & decision making skills in men’s cricket batting A piece on some of Karl's work can be viewed at: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/chelsea/news/2011/virtual-cricket-helps-batsmen.php?PageId=200 |
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Hsinny Tsai
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A case-study of the status and influence of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee in the context of the Cold War and ‘Two Chinas’ issue |
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Gareth Turner
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Optimising hypoxic and altitude training methods in elite endurance athletes |
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Rosie Twomey
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Investigation into the Neurophysiological determinants of fatigue in graded hypoxia Rosie appeared on the BBC Horizon Programme The Truth About Exercise. |
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Ibrahim Vishan
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Climate change in tourism-dependent SIDs: capacity building in the Maldives
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Brian Watmough
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International development organisations and tourism in Mongolia Supervisors: Dr Marina Novelli and Dr Angela Benson |
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Angela Wichmann A.Wichmann@brighton.ac.uk
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Tourism, Turnen, Tournaments: Understanding sports event tourists in the context of the 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne My research aims to identify and make sense of the meaning non-elite gymnasts attach to sports event tourism in the non-competitive environment of the 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne, Switzerland. More specifically my project contributes to advance the understanding on sports tourists by exploring the processes and mechanisms of how meaning and identity are created when people interact within a specific sports community while travelling. Motivation for research What fascinates me about research is to systematically discover, disclose and understand a tiny little piece of the social world. |
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Dan Wilkinson
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The Metabolic and Functional Consequences of Hyperammonaemia Dan has had several journal articles published. The details of these can be viewed here. |
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Michael Williams
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The conceptual and phenomenological development of music events as spectacle: U2s Union of Rock and Resistance Context
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James Wrightson
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The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on gait in Parkinson's disease |
