Sports kinesiology injury prevention and performance

The digital runner

To use established sport science knowledge, in conjunction with the latest technological advances in wearables and data science to enhance the prediction and prevention of running-related injuries.

Team members: Dr Kelly Sheerin, Dr Hannah Wyatt, Professor Patria Hume

The effect of lateral forefoot wedging on walking and running gait in healthy adults

To establish how lateral wedging in orthoses is used clinically by Podiatrists, and how lateral wedging effect foot and ankle function during walking and running.

Team members: Aaron Jackson (AUT podiatry), Associate Professor Matt Carroll (AUT podiatry), Dr Kelly Sheerin, Professor Duncan Reid

The impact of minimalist footwear on musculoskeletal health

The aim is to investigate the role of minimalist footwear activity on musculoskeletal health in children and adults.

Team members: Maisie Squibb (Institute of Technology Carlow), Dr Peter Francis (Institute of Technology Carlow), Dr Kelly Sheerin

Brain injury assessment tool (BIST)

Team members: Professor Alice Theadom, Professor Patria Hume, Professor Richard Siegert, Dr Susan Mahon, Renata Bastos Gottgtroy, Natalie Hardaker.

Applied mechanics and performance in cycling

Team members: Dr Rodrigo Bini and Professor Patria Hume

A concussion management strategy: Community rugby In New Zealand

The aim of this project is to implement and evaluate a concussion management pathway in New Zealand community rugby.

Team members: Dr Danielle Salmon, Associate Professor Chris Whatman, Dr Simon Walters

ManuTech splash characteristics and diver biomechanics

The aim of this study is to develop a system that will automatically measure the splash characteristics (i.e., height, volume and sound) and the diver's motion.

Team members: Professor Patria Hume.

Doctoral candidates

• Jaron Kung (Auckland)
  Topic: The associations between maturation, specialisation, performance and injury in New Zealand youth basketball players
  Supervisors: Chris Whatman, Mike McGuigan
• Jasper Wong (Auckland)
  Topic: The relationships between biomechanics, training load, and running related injury
  Supervisors: Kelly Sheerin, Hannah Wyatt, Chris Whatman
• Renata Bastos Gottgtroy (Auckland)
  Topic: Modelling multimodal data for early detection of concussion using contemporary machine learning methods: A personalised approach to concussion diagnosis and rehabilitation management
  Supervisors: Patria Hume, Alice Theadom
• Sabina Just (Auckland)
  Topic: The connection of emotion and motion in pregnancy and the influence on childbirth
  Supervisors: Hannah Wyatt, Peter McNair
• Natalie Hardaker (Wellington)
  Topic: Sex Differences: The effects on injury risk, recovery, and performance in sport
  Supervisors: Patria Hume, Stacy Sims, James Selfe
• Connor Silvester (Tauranga)
  Topic: Mental health screening in Aotearoa New Zealand high performance athletes
  Supervisors: Patria Hume, Liesje Donkin
• Dogus Bakici (Auckland)
  Topic: The acute and chronic effects of various volume flywheel exercise on athletic performance
  Supervisors: Matt Brughelli
• Lucas Borato (Auckland)
  Topic: The influence of maturation stages on balance and injury rates in young athletes
  Supervisors: Chris Whatman, Paul Read, Simon Walters

Masters Candidates

• Kayla Botha (Auckland)
  Topic: Assessing shoulder strength and range of motion in normal and symptomatic swimmers
  Supervisors: Hannah Wyatt, Chris Whatman, Matt Brughelli
• Lionel Ngendahayo (Auckland)
  Topic: Force-velocity profiling of football players during jumping and sprinting.
  Supervisors: Matt Brughelli
• Kyra Seiler (Auckland)
  Topic: Physiological comparison of eccentric vs concentric cycling at light-moderate intensity
  Supervisors: Matt Brughelli
• Yit Liew (Auckland)
  Topic: Acute effects of eccentric mobility training on the athletic performance of netball players
  Supervisors: Matt Brughelli
• Amy Honeyfield ()
  Topic: Epidemiology of squash related injuries in New Zealand
  Supervisors: Patria Hume, Gaye Bryham, Kristen Malpas
• Lauren Mackessack-Leitch (**)
  Topic: Assessing knowledge of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) in health professionals, athletes and coaches
  Supervisors: Patria Hume, Jacinta Horan
• Georgia Harris (Tauranga)
  Topic: The impact of running surface and running speed on biomechanics associated with tibial bone stress injuries in runners.
  Supervisors: Kelly Sheerin, Duncan Reid
• Kimberly Iversen (Norway)
  Topic: Does strength/resistance training impact the risk of injury for recreational runners?
  Supervisors: Duncan Reid, Kelly Sheerin
• Leanna Veal (Tauranga)
  Topic: Running biomechanics in trained youth runners and untrained youth team sport athletes.
  Supervisors: Kelly Sheerin, Kim Hébert-Losier (University of Waikato)

• SPRINZ Research Associate Dr Brian Russell provided a Radio NZ interview about the effects on two stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who are set to return to terra firma after having spent 285 days orbiting the Earth. Brian conducted work with NASA as part of his PhD at AUT with Prof Patria Hume and is now considered an international expert on human physical performance in space.
• Professor Patria Hume talked about the insole study and how the composition of insoles matters when selecting a type of your foot, leg or back pain. "We looked at 10 different insole types to see which ones would be good for them in terms of foot, knee or back pain, and we found some really interesting results," Hume told Jim Mora on RNZ's Sunday Morning.
• Professor Patria Hume talks to RNZ - How comfy are your insoles?

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