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 Thøgersen-Ntoumani is a leading expert in motivational science and health behaviour change, who has published much of her work in high-impact journals and secured diverse large amounts of research funding for interdisciplinary research. She is in the top 2% of all researchers in the world in any research field (Ioannidis et al., 2023), has given invited keynote lectures at ...

Professor Janice L. Thompson is a leading expert in the field of public health nutrition and exercise, and their role in preventing and treating risks for obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes across the lifespan.

Dr Martin Toms is an expert in youth sport and talent identification from a socio-cultural perspective. He works on a national and international perspective with federations and governing bodies (most notably the PGA of GB&I and also government agencies in India) and is the school lead for International development.

Dr Grace Turner is an applied health researcher currently undertaking a NIHR post-doctoral fellowship. She has 10 years’ experience in stroke research and is an emerging leader in stroke research. 

Dr Turner is a mixed-methods researcher with expertise in co-production, patient reported outcomes, and Patient, Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement.

James is internationally recognised as having expertise in exercise physiology or more specifically, exercise immunology. His research explores the impact lifestyle has on mechanisms of ageing and chronic disease. The projects James leads span two themes: (1) overweight/obesity and immune system ageing – with focus on adipose tissue immunology; and (2) physical activity and cancer ...