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  • Women’s Sport: Insights from a Researcher’s Journey
  • Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
  • Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
  • Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

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  • waqar on Exercise: The miracle treatment for mental health?
  • mike oxsmal on Getting the message across: interpersonal communication
  • jamil on What do the Numbers Really Mean? Interpreting England’s Match Statistics at the World Cup
  • rose on Review of the Competing in the Dark: Mental Health in Sport Conference, March 2018

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Recent Posts

  • Tackling abuse: the triumphs of women rugby players
  • Women’s Sport: Insights from a Researcher’s Journey
  • Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
  • Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
  • Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

Recent Comments

  • car on Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
  • waqar on Exercise: The miracle treatment for mental health?
  • mike oxsmal on Getting the message across: interpersonal communication
  • jamil on What do the Numbers Really Mean? Interpreting England’s Match Statistics at the World Cup
  • rose on Review of the Competing in the Dark: Mental Health in Sport Conference, March 2018

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Categories

  • #TeamOUsport
  • Alex Twitchen
  • Asthma
  • Athletics World Championships
  • Autism
  • Ben Langdown
  • Ben Oakley
  • BOCs
  • Candice Lingam-Willgoss
  • Career transitions
  • Carers
  • Caroline Heaney
  • Chasing Perfection
  • Children
  • Commonwealth Games 2014
  • Communication
  • concussion
  • Conference
  • Doping
  • E112
  • E113
  • E114
  • E117
  • E119
  • E119 Student Blogs
  • E129
  • E217
  • E233
  • E235
  • E236
  • E312
  • E313
  • E314
  • E315
  • Early specialisation
  • Equality
  • Euro 2016
  • EXCF224
  • family
  • Football
  • Football World Cup 2014
  • Football World Cup 2018
  • Free Learning
  • Gavin Williams
  • Gender
  • Helen Owton
  • Homophobia
  • Honorary graduates
  • Induction
  • Jane Dorrian
  • Jessica Pinchbeck
  • Jim Lusted
  • Job vacancies
  • Karen Howells
  • Linda Plowright
  • Marina Postlethwaite-Bowler
  • Martin Rhys
  • Menstruation
  • Mental health
  • Module tasters
  • Motivation
  • Natalie Darko
  • Netball World Cup 2019
  • Neurodiversity
  • Nichola Kentzer
  • Ola Fadoju
  • Olympics
  • Paralympics
  • Physical activity
  • physiology
  • psychology
  • Racism
  • Recovery
  • Resilience
  • retirement from sport
  • Rugby World Cup 2015
  • Simon Penn
  • Simon Rea
  • Sleep
  • Social media
  • sociology
  • sport psychology
  • Sports Kit
  • Sports Science
  • Steph Doehler
  • Student Stories
  • StudentHub Live
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  • Taster materials
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