Research projects

The RUDDER Project

Athlete having physiotherapy on his knee

Return-to-Sport using decision determinants to evaluate the risk of re-injury in sport.
 

 

Perceptual-cognitive predictors of success

Young AFL player holding ball

"The UTS facilities allow researchers to use more ecologically-valid testing protocols to measure players’ decision-making and help shape talent identification and development of future athletes."
- Dr Job Fransen

Combating injury in fast bowlers

Cricket bowler hands holding ball

"With load analysis we can investigate whether we need to modify how much players actually bowl and whether they need to rest more often. These findings will be useful for the development of training and strength and conditioning programs to minimise the risk of injury in cricketers and other elite athletes.” - Dr Libby Pickering Rodriguez

Unlocking the secret to endurance

Swimmer

"I'm really excited to be able to test and train our athletes in one location. The resources and facilities like the Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory and the Environmental Laboratory are invaluable to our research students and industry partners because they allow us to build our capacity in endurance physiology research.” - Dr Katie Slattery

Sport in Indigenous Communities

Indigenous AFL players

“The facilities at Moore Park are an important development in exposing the Indigenous community to a sports science facility of the highest quality, and allow me to draw on the highest technology available in sports sciences to inform my research in a way that was not possible previously." - Professor John Evans

Predicting physical maturity 

Soccer team legs

“Previously, measuring maturity has relied upon difficult and invasive procedures such as the assessment of sexual maturation characteristics or X-raying a child’s wrist. That’s why there is a dire need for the development of a non-invasive procedure to accurately estimate maturity in children and adolescents. Without the input of a mathematician, we would not have had the robust mathematical procedures to develop the new prediction model." - Dr Job Fransen

Head smart about injury in AFL

Head smart about head injury in AFL

“The purpose-built facilities at the UTS Moore Park precinct open many doors for extending collaborative research with the Sydney Swans Football Club. The biomechanics and physiology research spaces enable a myriad of possibilities for assessing the strength, power, aerobic fitness and technical capabilities of professional footballers, with a view to enhancing training and performance outcomes.” - Professor Mark Watsford

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.