School of Exercise and Sport Science

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Supervisor	Student	Research Topic
Professor Maria Fiatarone-Singh	Healthy aging; exercise, nutrition, ageing, disease and function; Geriatric nutrition and exercise
	Rhonda Orr	Musculoskeletal function and gait stability in older adults
	Mina Lim	Functional adaptation to Country line Dancing in elderly Chinese females
	Nathan de Vos	Power training in older adults
	Amanda Benson	A Community based intervention program in NZ for children at risk of NIDDM by modifying some risk factors
	Bobby Cheema	Resistance training during haemodialysis
	Michelle Kay	Multimodal exercise training in elderly women
	Tracey Tsang	Ku-Fung Training for Obese children
	Rede Frisby	Physiological changes in a RCT and long term follow up of high intensity PRT in children
A/Professor Richard Smith	Biomechanics of rowing in elite athletes; biomechanics of gait, particularly in relation to the foot, footwear and paraplegia
	David Buck	Computer Simulation of Electrically Stimulated Gait in Paraplegics
	Vivienne Chuter	Walking shoe biomechanics [Supported by ASICS]
	Ghamdan El-Miski	Studies in Modelling and Control of human gait. Bondgraph Modelling, System identification through Optimisation and Model Based control. [Supported by SPIRT Grant]
	Ami Drory-Weinstock	Optimizing the performance of rowing simulators
	Constanze Loschner	Optimisation of rowing technique
	Johanna Nutt	Forefoot mechanics during running barefoot and in dual density and neutral footwear
A/Professor Martin Thompson	Prolonged exercise: temperature regulation, muscle fatigue and damage
	Clive Astle	Self efficacy and sports performance
	Kylie Hoffman	Exercise heat stress and endotoxaemia [partly supported by NSW Sports Injury Prevention Grant]
	Phil Chapman	Hyperthermia, exercise performance and fatigue
	Pascale Bridge	The role of muscle strength, nutrition and physical activity on bone mineral density and architecture from childhood to adolescence
	Ben Rattray	Mitochondrial dysfunction under a heat load during prolonged exercise
	Stuart Best	Regional differences in sweat capacity following heat acclimation in young and older athletes
Dr John Brotherhood	Temperature Regulation, Exercise Health and Disease
Dr John Brotherhood	Sarah Morante	Heat stress and strain in elite and community level female tennis players
A/Professor Glen Davis	Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injured, Electrical Stimulation
	Eunice Ouano	EMG-closed loop control of FES-evoked gait in Spinal Cord Injury
	Sirous Ahmadi	Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Rehabilitation after Sports Injuries
	Herb Groeller	Sympathovagal balance and exercise capacity
	Scott Simcox	FES orthotic walking: engineering, biomechanical and physiological considerations to success
	Gustavo Braz	FES neuroprosthesis for standing and stepping after spinal cord injury
	Nur Azah Hamzaid	Development of an isokinetic FES leg stepping trainer for individuals with a neurological disability
Dr Marg Torode	Functional Anatomy
	Craig Duncan	Effects of mechanical loading on BMD, Bone Geometry and Biomechanical indices in young female athletes
	Klaus Gebel	Population participation in Physical Activity
Dr Chin Moi Chow	Exercise, sleep and circadian rhythm
	Tahnee Kinsman	Altitude training and sleep
	Nathan Townsend	Altitude training and acid-base and electrolyte balance
	Ahmad Afaghi	The effect of delivering a high and low glycemic index (HGI and LGI) evening meal at different times on sleep architecture in healthy subjects.
	Joe Lombardo	Mechanisms of altitude illness
	Stephen Lambert	Exercise response and muscle fatigue in sleep apnoea
Dr Helen O'Connor	Measurement of energy expenditure & lipid utilisation Diet, anthropometry and elite sports people.
	Hayley Ralph	Comparison of a higher protein, lower carbohydrate diet to a conventional high carbohydrate diet on weight loss and immune function in obese young women.
	Susan Heaney	Predicting nutritional risk factors in adolescent athletes
Dr Jacqui Raymond	Exercise for clinical populations. Cardiovascular control during exercise
Dr Jacqui Raymond	John Temesi	The effect of glucose ingestion on performance in wheelchair athletes
Dr Peter Sinclair	Computer modelling and biomechanics of sport
	Ben Williams	The effect of resisted and assisted freestyle swimming on stroke mechanics
	Max Stuelcken	A prospective investigation of fast bowling injuries and their mechanisms in women's first class cricket
	Andy Greene	Biodynamic characteristics of on-water and ergometer rowing
A/Professor Nick O’Dwyer	Motor Control
	Kwee Yum Lee	Changes in co-ordination pattern in balancing
	Araya Yankai	Bilateral analysis of coordination during walking in normals and hemiparetic subjects.
Dr Benedicte Vanwanseele	Tissue Biomechanics, Clinical Biomechanics
Dr Benedicte Vanwanseele	Nasim Foroughi	Biomechanical analysis of walking in osteoarthritic patients
	Angela Lange	The effect of PRT on knee articular cartilage morphology in female OA patients