Three Durham alumni and a graduating student have been selected for the men’s and women’s Team GB hockey squads ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer.

Alumna Lauren Irwin has been announced as part of Team GB’s 42-member rowing squad for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games this summer.

Carolyn Summerbell from our department is Senior lead author in two new reviews on Interventions to prevent obesity in children - which are out now!

Qualitative Inquiry is a prestigious journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences.

New research suggests that feelings of discomfort and unsafety are preventing some young people from being physically active.

A new research project will capture fans’ memories of Sunderland football club going back to the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Mark Stoutenberg who joined us in the new year as of Head of Department for Sport and Exercise Sciences.

This week Professor Cassandra Phoenix will join a group of international scholars at the University of Tilberg for the inaugural symposium and Key Member meeting of the Women’s Marginalised Health Network (WoMaHN), where she will present work from the programme of research she is leading within the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences on movement through menopause.

January 2024 marks a big change for the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences as Professor Martin Roderick ends his five year term as Head of Department.   

Professor Brett Smith is invited to deliver a keynote address at the Physical Activity conference later this month.

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Cassandra Phoenix of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences. We welcome you to join us on 24 January at 4pm in the Teaching and Learning Centre (room TLC113) for Professor Phoenix’s Inaugural Lecture. In this celebratory event, Cassandra will provide an overview of her research on ageing and physical activity in relation to experiences of health and wellbeing. The talk will be followed by drinks reception.

We’re celebrating the news that the Moving Social Work project, a collaboration between our Department of Sport and Exercise Science and Disability Rights UK, will be expanding thanks to a £1 million investment from Sport England.