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.

Richard is an AHCS registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist with a primary research interest in exercise training in clinical populations e.g. cardiovascular disease, cancers, heart failure, severe intestinal failure. Prior to moving to academia, Richard worked in the NHS for over 14 years. He has worked, and continues to work, on a number of research trials delivering complex interventions ...

Dr Jamie Pringle is an exercise physiologist with interests in sports performance and professional practice in sports science, sports medicine, and coaching. With an extensive background in industry, largely in the British world-class sport sector, his research themes are often founded in real-world challenges and questions. His broader interests are in environmental exercise physiology, ...

A latecomer to higher education, Dr David Punt spent the first half of his career working as a physiotherapist in the National Health Service (NHS), specialising in stroke rehabilitation.  He also spent time working as a physical therapist in the American Midwest.

An interest in the neglect syndrome following stroke led him to undertake a PhD (funded by a Stroke AssociationFellowship), ...