2 PhD jobs

Would you like to conduct research on UEFA’s football development programmes? Full-Time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Needed! UEFA has recently started to implement their new women’s football and grassroots strategies. As part of this process two flagship programmes will be rolled out across 55 countries over the next 12 months. • UEFA Playmakers – developed in conjunction with Disney, the Playmakers programme aims to introduce more girls to football using a games-based approach focused around Disney’s stories and characters. • UEFA Football in Schools Programme – this programme aims to support each National Association to increase the amount and quality of school-based opportunities to play football in schools. In 2019, a Leeds Beckett University team conducted research to inform the development of both programmes. Now, UEFA and Leeds Beckett University are looking to employ a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to...

About the Project The demands of Academy football match-play include a requirement to cover distances of ~7-11 km (Goto et al., 2015), perform explosive bouts of skill-based work (Stolen et al., 2005) and run at high intensities (>3.0 m s−2) for up to 375 ± 120 m per half (Russell et al., 2015), whilst eliciting mean whole-match intensities of 70-80% V̇O2max (Bangsbo, 2010). The ability to sustain such demands is integral to the performance outcome (Krustrup et al., 2006), as match-related fatigue has been reported both transiently throughout a game (Krustrup et al. 2006) and from 45 min onwards (Harper et al., 2016; Russell et al., 2015; Russell et al., 2011; Mohr et al., 2005). Although fatigue is likely multifaceted in origin, previous studies have highlighted the role of both habitual and pre-exercise nutritional status on the ability to maintain performance and to enable effective recovery (Anderson et al., 2016). Habitual energy intake, and in...