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Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Research Day
17 December 2008
9.30am - onwards
Long Gallery, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
The Faculty of Health and Wellbeing will be holding its first annual research day at the Millennium Galleries in December.
This event will showcase the research currently taking place, with presentations from staff and students in the key areas of biomedical research, sport and exercise science, and health and social care research. A poster session and wine reception in the afternoon will highlight the ongoing research in our centres and across the faculty.
We hope this event will allow colleagues from across the university to gain a better understanding of the exciting and groundbreaking research work being carried out in Health and Wellbeing.
'Lighting the Flame' Olympic 'Any Questions?' event
21 July 2008, 6pm for 6.30pm
Pennine Lecture Theatre, City Campus
What does it take to win an Olympic medal? What's going to be different about Beijing? How do you prepare for the biggest sporting event of your life? You can ask those who know at the University's special 'Lighting the Flame' Olympic 'Any Questions?' event on July 21.
'Lighting the Flame' is a campaign which brings together a whole host of sporting, business, educational and cultural organisations across Yorkshire to exploit the opportunities that the 2012 Olympics in London will bring to the region.
The 'Any Questions?' event will feature a panel comprised of runner Peter Elliott, the 1988 Seoul Olympics 1,500 metre silver medallist from Rotherham, Leon Taylor, the Sheffield-based diver who took silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and Paralympian table tennis star Sue Gilroy from Barnsley, who is representing Britain at this year's Beijing games.
Also on the panel will be Professor of Sport Psychology Ian Maynard, who has acted as a consultant to many medal winners including Leon Taylor, boxer Amir Khan and the GB sailing team who between them won 11 medals in the 2004 games. Ian has assisted teams at the Barcelona and Athens Olympics, the Manchester Commonwealth Games and World Championships, focusing on areas such as anxiety and stress management, mental toughness and confidence building.
Chaired by Radio Sheffield's Sports Editor Paul Walker, Olympic 'Any Questions?' is jointly presented by Sheffield Hallam University and BBC Radio Sheffield, who will be recording the evening for transmission before the Beijing games begin.
Reserve your free tickets for this exclusive event taking place on Monday 21 July at 6pm for 6.30pm in the University's Pennine Theatre, City Campus, by e-mailing events@shu.ac.uk or phoning 0114 225 4957. Free refreshments before and after the event are also provided.
Newton at the Olympics - advances in sports engineering
Tuesday 15 July 2008, 6.30 for 7pm
Pennine Lecture Theatre, City Campus
Individual sports have developed over the last thousands of years with only current manufacturing capabilities, the laws of physics and imagination as the limiting factors. The development of professional sport as a spectator sport has necessitated laws to be developed for each sport to ensure that everyone plays by the same rules. However, in our technological world, there are plenty of opportunities to use science and engineering to enhance performance either of athletes, products, or more generally of the two together.
This presentation will describe research being carried out at Sheffield Hallam University to understand the fundamental mechanics of the athlete's interaction with equipment. The research uses extensive footage using high speed video running at over 4,000 pictures per second to slow down the action of sports men and women. Computer simulations (see below*) will be used to look at developments in sports such as football, tennis, cycling, and skeleton bobsleigh. In Olympic and UEFA European Championship year, the use of technology leads to the inevitable question - when is it cheating? Come along to find out the answer.
The presentation is suitable to those with an interest either in sport or technology and the physics will be understandable to those in secondary or higher education, or those with a general technical bias.
Professor Steve Haake is head of the Sports Engineering Research Group at Sheffield Hallam University, which employs around 20 researchers and PhD students. Originally gaining a 1st in Physics at Leeds University he lectured for 15 years in Mechanical Engineering and founded the International Sports Engineering Association, the journal Sports Engineering and the International Conference of Sports Engineering (of which the first two were held in Sheffield). He has edited six books, given over a dozen international keynotes and contributed to over 130 journal and conference papers on sports engineering. He is a member of the Technical Commission of the International Tennis Federation advising on the effect of equipment design on the rule of tennis.
Tickets are free and include tea and coffee on arrival followed by wine and nibbles. Places should be booked in advance by e-mailing events@shu.ac.uk or phone 0114 225 4957.
*If you can't make it but would still like to see examples of the research we're doing, you can view 3D computer simulations (opens in new window) of products under development by the Sport Engineering group. These clips demonstrate advances in product development through the employment of fluid dynamics and high resolution laser scanning.
Engineering Gold: Sports Engineering Design
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) European Regional Network Prestige Lecture, April 2008
Dr David James, Sports Engineering Group, CSES
Presentation from Sun Microsystems GEC, Grenoble, France
Individual sports have developed over the last thousands of years with only current manufacturing capabilities, the laws of physics and imagination as the limiting factors. The development of professional sport as a spectator sport has necessitated laws to be developed for each sport to ensure that everyone plays by the same rules. However, in our technological world, there are plenty of opportunities to use science and engineering to enhance performance either of athletes, products, or more generally of the two together.
This lecture will explore the cutting edge research that examines the fundamental mechanics of the athlete's interaction with their equipment; it will also examine the ethics of using technology to enhance performance and ask, 'when it is cheating'?
Forty years after the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the lecture will focus on some of the latest technological developments in winter sports. One event where technology is literally sliding a sport forward is the high speed Olympic discipline of Skeleton Bob Sled. At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics the medals winners were separated on average by three tenths of a second after two runs. How do athletes find their extra speed? The lecture will describe some of the sophisticated engineering techniques (originated in the affluent sports of Formula 1 Motor Racing, and America's Cup sailing) that are now being used in Skeleton and other winter sports to gain speed and shave time.
> Please click here to view the presentation on the IET website
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