Sport Sciences/Data Analytics: Fully Funded Swansea University and English Institute of Sport PhD Scholarship: The application of advanced data analytics techniques to high performance sport
Funding providers: Swansea University and English Institute of Sport
Subject areas: Sport Sciences/Data Analytics
Project start date:
- 1 April 2022 (Enrolment open from mid–March)
Supervisors:
- Dr Neil Bezodis and Professor Huw Summers
- Industrial advisors- Chris Bailey and Dave Thomas
- Research advisors- Professor Liam Kilduff, Professor Paul Rees, Dr Sean Walton and Dr Daniel Archambault
Aligned programme of study: PhD in Sport and Exercise Sciences
Mode of study: Full-time
Project description:
This project will develop and apply advanced data analytical and visualisation techniques to impact the practice of the UK’s Olympic sports. This will involve the interaction between academics working in Sport and Exercise Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science, and leading practitioners from the English Institute of Sport (EIS) working directly with some of the UK’s most successful sports’ National Governing Bodies. In recent years, greater instrumentation and monitoring has led to a dramatic increase in the volume of data which aims to quantify different aspects of sporting performance. However, much like in many aspects of wider society, this increase in data collection has often superseded the rate at which practitioners have been able to understand and interpret the meaningfulness of the data and the potential application and communication of its findings. By applying advanced data analytics and visualisation techniques from a range of disciplines, this project will enable the critical features of complex sporting systems to be identified, translated into meaningful insight, and ultimately applied to potentially impact elite sporting performance.
Please note: interviews for those applicants shortlisted will take place on Friday 25 February 2022.
Established in 1920, Swansea University is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the suburban setting of the large town of Swansea (population range of 50,000-249,999 inhabitants), Wales. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Privy Council, Swansea University is a large (uniRank enrollment range: 15,000-19,999 students) coeducational higher education institution. Swansea University offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor degrees (i.e. certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation degrees), bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. This 99 years old higher-education institution has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations and students' past academic record and grades. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment.