Academic staff in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Sarah Aldred is an exercise biochemist interested in oxidative stress. She is interested in how exercise can perturb redox homeostasis in both health and disease. Sarah has worked with young and old, and with those suffering from psychosis and schizophrenia, cardiovascular disease and dementia. 

Sarah is Head of the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Professor Maria Kavussanu is an expert on morality in sport. In her research, she is trying to understand antecedents and consequences of prosocial and antisocial sport behaviour and has conducted extensive work in understanding and preventing doping in sport. Recently, she has developed moral, interventions to combat doping in athletes and to enhance authentic leadership in coaches.

Dr Yoon Jin Kim is an Assistant Professor in Sport Pedagogy at the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham. Before joining the School in 2022, Yoon Jin worked as a post-doctoral researcher, conducting two IOC-funded projects on abuse and safeguarding in sport, based at the Institute for Olympic Studies of Korea National Sport University for two years. Her ...

Jamie’s expertise lies in performance analysis within sport. Jamie has over 7 years of experience within Performance Analysis working across a range of sports from football, rugby, netball, and squash.