ISPAR Events
ISPAR Beds Talk: Eating Drinking and Exercising in a Warming World 2024
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û's recent Beds Talks, "Eating, Drinking & Exercising in a Warming World," led by Dr. Michael Newell, engaged participants in vital discussions on the impact of climate change on sports science and nutrition. Held at our Bedford campus, the event attracted 27 attendees, with immersive workshops and expert presentations conducted in our advanced laboratory facilities.
Participants explored innovative strategies for adapting exercise, hydration, and dietary habits to enhance health and performance in a warmer climate. Dr. Newell emphasized the importance of equipping individuals with practical solutions to thrive despite environmental changes, highlighting the event as a significant step in fostering community and academic engagement on global warming's challenges.
The event reinforced our commitment to pioneering research and dialogue on critical global issues, promising ongoing initiatives to address climate impact on health and lifestyle.
ISPAR Seminar Series 2022
The ISPAR seminar series ran successful for another year in 2021-22, coordinated by Dr Jeff Aldous, to enhance the PGR experience. We offered a mixture of on-campus and online seminars from external speakers across the country as well as internal staff. The 2021-2022 series included the following talks:
Learning to suffer: The impact of endurance training on pain tolerance, neuromuscular fatigue and aerobic fitness
Dr Martyn Morris, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
Network Physiology of Exercise: How organ systems interact. New Horizons in fitness and performance assessment
Dr Sergi Garcia Retortillo, Boston аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
Having a research career with Impact
Dr Julie Bayley, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Lincoln
Thinking shallow and thinking deep about concussion – what can we learn by getting punched in the face?
Dr Christopher Matthews, Nottingham Trent аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
New insights and new interventions to limit sedentary behaviour and enhance health
Dr Daniel Bailey, Brunel аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
Places, access and the future of informal outdoor sport and leisure
Professor Andrew Church, Dr Paul Gilchrist and Dr Katherine King, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
Active Games 4 Change
Jordan Wintle, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Gloucestershire
Should we scale up? Using mixed methods to understand if, how, and why interventions work
Dr Marsha Brierley, Buckinghamshire County Council
Living with chronic pain: The influence of social support and pain management interventions on the psychosocial wellbeing of people with chronic pain.
Dr Katherine Findlay, Reading аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
ISPAR Seminar Series 2021
ISPAR regularly invites experts in the field to speak as part of on an ongoing lecture series. Details of upcoming, and past, events are available below.
In addition to this, we also host the ISPAR Conference, which showcases the latest research from staff and students at the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û.
Dr Fiona Gillison & Dr Elizabeth Grey
Developing evidence-based guidance for parents on talking to children about weight; reflections from a multiple study, co-creation approach.
- Wednesday 23 June 2021
- 3pm, live stream
- аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Bath
Past events
ISPAR Seminar Series 2015 - 2020
- Exploring Perceived Benefits of Exercising in Public Places -, Robert Gordon аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (November 18, 2020) -
- The health and well-being of the occupational athlete - , ACT Emergency Services Agency, Australia (October 21, 2020) -
- Personalised nutrition: can we move beyond weight and rate based ingestion recommendations of ergogenic aids? - Dr Michael Newell, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (July 1, 2020)
- How might the COVID-19 pandemic be affecting our sitting time and metabolic health? - , Brunel аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û London (April 29, 2020) -
- Psychological perspectives on obesity: Addressing policy, practice and research priorities - Dr Angel Chater, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (March 18, 2020) -
- Undergraduate Student Identities in Dance and Gymnastics Education - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Wolverhampton (May 15, 2019)
- Testing physically active lessons to improve activity and educational outcomes in primary-school children - аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û College London (April 3, 2019)
- Are interventions implemented as intended? Assessing fidelity of interventions to increase physical activity - аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û College London (March 6, 2019)
- Digital technology in (physical) education: what has been? Where are we now? What does the future hold? - The Open аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û February 20, 2019)
- Beds Talks: Pathways to health and well-being through physical activity (January 23, 2019)
- Postural control and stability in older adults: findings from the Active Ageing Research Group studies - Lancaster аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. (January 16, 2019)
- Benefits of exercise for cancer - Consultant Oncologist Bedford & Addenbrooke’s Cambridge аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Trusts, Professor of Exercise & Biological Science Coventry аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. (December 5, 2018)
- Exercise in the fasted vs. fed state for metabolic health and body composition - аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Bath. (November 7, 2018)
- The science behind breakfast - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Bath. (May 2, 2018)
- Tackling childhood obesity – what’s holding us back? - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Bath. (April 4, 2018)
- Maximising the output from pilot and feasibility studies: an example of an online intervention to reduce alcohol consumption. , Teeside аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (March 7, 2018)
- The extra-time period of football: implications for physiology and performance. , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Huddersfield (February 7, 2018)
- аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û sport and policy reform in China - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Birmingham. (January 10, 2018)
- Appetite and energy balance responses to exercise, nutrition, and environmental interventions - , Leeds Beckett аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. (December 13, 2017)
- Changing the Game by Changing the Players - A one day conference that considers the role of sport in achieving social outcome. The conference will explore best practice from projects delivered across Europe and is suitable for all those who are currently working in the industry or those studying sport, health and physical activity. (December 12, 2017)
- From advanced injury treatments to gene doping: how advances in gene medicine will transform sports science - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û College London. (November 1, 2017)
- Exercise - Appetite, Energy Intake and Energy Expenditure - , Sheffield Hallam аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (May 3, 2017)
- ISPAR Psychology , Social Sciences, PE and Pedagogy Groups: past, present and future research - ISPAR Staff, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û (April 5, 2017)
- Body culture and stereotypes in photographs in Physical Education textbooks in Spain - , Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (March 29, 2017)
- Sedentary behaviour: An update of the experimental, epidemiological and intervention evidence - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Leicester (March 1, 2017)
- Beating the heat- strategies for maximising performance in hot environments - Dr. Chris Tyler, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Roehampton (Feb 1, 2017)
- Globalisation and student diversity: teaching and researching with Chinese students in Health and Physical Education - , аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û of Western Sydney (Nov 2, 2016)
- Postprandial lipaemia in young people - , Loughborough аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Linear mixed models for the analysis of repeated measures data - , Edge Hill аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Exercise and immune function: factors influencing infection risk in athletes - , Loughborough аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Examination of local vascular function: Implication for performance and physical function - Professor Michael Welsch, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Breathing during exercise; how hard can it be? - , English Institute of Sport
- Exercise, Nutrition and Bone Metabolism - , Nottingham Trent аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- The applications of Synthetic Biology in health and disease - , Imperial College London
- Physical performance in elite youth football players - , Coventry аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Dehydration and exercise performance: What’s New? - , Loughborough аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- The realities of high performance sport; implications for education, research and life - Dr Steve Ingham, English Institute of Sport
- Exercise and appetite - , Loughborough аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Confronting age-old problems in old-age muscle through applied physiology and stem cell biology - Professor Steve Harridge, King's College London
- Hedgehog in the allergic lung: a new role for morphogens in asthma? - Dr Anna Furmanski, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Impact of dehydration on cerebral blood flow and metabolism during exhaustive exercise - Dr Steven Trangmar, Roehampton аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Parents views on healthy diet and weight for children & Active Luton GP referral schemes: how to increase engagement - Dr Erica Cook and Dr Faye Powell, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
- Sympathetic activation and heat as governors of the inflammatory response: What is the practical use? - , Loughborough аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û
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