The RUDDER Project
Return-to-Sport using decision determinants to evaluate the risk of re-injury in sport.
Perceptual-cognitive predictors of success
"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
"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
"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
“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
“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
“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