Winning Margins in Performance Sport: How crucial is R&D?, 21 January 2009
Scott Keir
Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:04 UTC
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Winning Margins in Performance Sport: How crucial is R&D?
Dr Scott Drawer and Peter Keen OBE of UK Sport
on 21 January 2009
As we head towards the greatest opportunity of our sporting lifetime into a home Olympic and Paralympic Games, can R&D play a significant role in propelling British Sport to its most significant performance ever?
Full details and booking on the R&D Society’s website.
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Of potential interest:
UK Sport’s Talent and innovation – a snapshot of 2008 report, which details UK Sport’s partnerships with BAE Systems, epm: technology group, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, Loughborough University Sports Technology Institute, the Sport and Exercise Science Department at Portsmouth University, the Centre for Sport and Engineering Science at Sheffield Hallam University, TotalSim and the University of Southampton (Wolfson Unit).
It also talks about their Ideas 4 Innovation programme, an award scheme designed to encourage sports enthusiasts with expertise in science, medicine, engineering or technology to apply their skills to sport in the hope of discovering novel techniques, methods or equipment to enhance the performances of our best athletes in 2012 and beyond. There are two awards on offer: the New Researchers Award, for students, and the Garage Innovators Award, which is open to any member of the British public, both with a top prize of £25,000 in research funding.
The inaugural New Researchers Award was given to Chris West of Brunel University for further research into his idea for the development of a novel device for performance enhancement in spinal cord injured athletes. The Garage Innovators Award winner will be announced in the new year. It is being repeated for 2009. You may find out more at the R&D Society’s event with UK sport on 21 January!
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