The Health and Wellbeing of Women in Sport

Enabling multidisciplinary and innovative research to address the urgent and persistent challenges related to the health and wellbeing of women in sport.

Improving the health and wellbeing of women in sport and exercise requires specialist, joined-up, evidenced-based research.

This Research Cluster will focus on important female-specific and intersecting health and wellbeing issues – spanning the impact of the menstrual cycle on female health and performance to the effective engineering design of sportswear for pregnant women.

Bringing together a range of multidisciplinary expertise and industry partners, this Research Cluster will enable cross-cutting research that advances gender equitable research and innovation to improve the health and wellbeing of women in sport and exercise. 

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Studentships

Five funded studentships are available to explore the health and wellbeing of women in sport.
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Our research

Our transdisciplinary research explores the impacts of exercise and nutrition on women's health and wellbeing.
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Meet the team

Bringing together multi-disciplinary perspectives, theoretical and methodological expertise.