Empowering Women and Girls through Sport & Exercise Science
Discover the Science of Human Health and Performance: Sport Science Webinar Series
This webinar isn’t just for women! Are you an athlete, coach, sport scientist, physiotherapist, researcher, doctor, or teacher—or aspiring to be one? This exciting webinar will show you how to support and empower women and girls through sport and exercise science. Learn how you can be the future of sport science to support women and girls!
- Learn something new: The menstrual cycle’s role in sport and exercise
- Think critically: Myth busting
- In the field: Supporting female athletes to perform to their best
- Thinking caps on: Future directions for sport science
From physiology and psychology to health and performance, this cutting-edge session will empower you to empower women and girls through sport and exercise science.
Don’t miss out – join us for this action-packed session!
Dr Sophie Harrison
Sophie is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science. Sophie earned her BSc degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences from Stirling University, Scotland in 2015 and her MSc in Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University, England in 2016. Sophie completed her PhD in Sport and Exercise Immunology from Â鶹Íø in 2020. Sophie then spent three years working as a postdoctoral researcher at Â鶹Íø. In Sophie’s first postdoctoral role she worked within the Public Health Collaboration Unit in collaboration with researchers at Public Health Wales. Then, Sophie worked as a postdoctoral researcher within the Celtic Advanced Lifesciences and Innovation Network (CALIN) working with small-medium enterprises, and completing a study examining a digitially delivered exercise intervention for people with obesity, in collaboration with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
Sophie’s research interests include: Female physiology, sport and exercise immunology, nutrition, menstrual cycle symptom management.
This session will be delivered through the medium of English.
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