TODAY IS THE DAY👏
We are excited to finally be able to welcome our students to their first term in our new Institute of Sport building! We hope you enjoy all that our new facilities have to offer.
Are you studying in the Institute of Sport building this week?
Check out the progress being made on our fantastic new building on Oxford Road. Great to see it coming to life!
This purpose-built facility due to open in January 2022 will house specialist learning spaces and high-tech laboratories for sport research, teaching and performance.
We were delighted to hear from
@DameSarahStorey
,
@AndyBurnhamGM
,
@bevcraig
and our very own Lord Mandelson, Professor Malcolm Press, and
@ProfTimCable
about sport in Manchester and how we aim to make an impact in our sporting city and beyond at our launch event tonight!
Today, we're excited to reach a big milestone! Staff are starting to move into our new Institute of Sport building ready for when it fully opens in the New Year. We'll be giving you a look behind the scenes as they move into these exciting facilities.
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer,
@KAJDaniels
on being elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport.
#McrMetProud
#McrInstSport
Our next
#IWD2021
changemaker: BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Distance Learning) student Esme (
@_esmemorgan
) is a
@ManCityWomen
footballer who is passionate about using her platform to make a positive change and tackle wider societal issues.
#ChooseToChallenge
We’re so
#McrMetProud
of our
#REFResults
! In sport, we’re 6th in the UK for the power of our research, with 95% of our outputs being world-leading or internationally excellent.
Congratulations to Manchester City Community Football Coaching student Tom O’Dell who walked out with the
#PremierLeague
trophy before it was lifted by champions
@ManCity
last weekend!
#mcrmetproud
⚽🏆
💙 | THE STORY BEHIND TODAY'S, TROPHY BEARERS ALEX WILLIAMS MBE AND CITC PARTICIPANT TOM O'DELL. 🏆
Hear the story of our trophy bearers, as the legacy and future of our charity join forces.
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Today we're celebrating the launch of the Institute of Sport and the opening of our fantastic new building with staff from across
@ManMetUni
.
Tag us in your photos if you're coming to see us this afternoon:
@McrInstSport
!
We're looking forward to seeing you all😀
We're building a home in the heart of Manchester - set to open in 2022.
Here’s a CGI image of our fantastic new purpose-built facility! It will house specialist hi-tech research labs and teaching spaces.
Did you know that students on our BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course have specialist sessions and guest lectures at the iconic
#OldTrafford
Stadium? Find out more about our new degree with
@MU_foundation
:
Looking for a new opportunity in 2023? We are seeking PhD students to investigate adaptations to resistance training, impacts of cardiac resynchronisation, effects of long COVID, well-being in adolescent female athletes, and more. See our opportunities:
Yesterday, we officially launched the Institute of Sport and shared our agenda with guests from organisations across Manchester and beyond. Our keynote speaker,
@DameSarahStorey
shares what the Institute means to her as an athlete.
We’re bringing together leaders in sport education and research from across
@ManMetUni
Hear from Prof Jamie McPhee and Dr Gladys Pearson (
@GladysOP1
) on the opportunities we aim to bring to our students, researchers and Manchester!
Explore more:
Congratulations to
@TomDosSantos91
on being awarded the
@nsca
Young Investigator Grant! Carissa Gump, NSCA Foundation Director commented that “Dr. Dos’Santos’s dedication to his research and commitment to advancing our field is truly commendable."
Sneak peek of our new
#McrInstSport
building on Oxford Road taking shape! 📸
Due to open in January 2022, the new purpose-built facility adds to our existing world-class sport facilities across campus and will house sector-leading research, teaching and performance spaces.
Could training in
#VR
help football players to practice headers without risk? Findings from our researchers published in
@VIREJournal
suggest that this could be a safer and effective way to train. Find out more:
We're delighted to welcome
@DameSarahStorey
to our Institute of Sport team as a Visiting Professor! She will be bringing her expertise to our research, training with our sport scientists in the lead up to
@Paris2024
and speaking at the launch of Future Me week today.
@ManMetUni
Sneak peak 👀
Behind the scenes as the keys to our fantastic new facility on Oxford Road get handed over. Now for the final touches ready to officially open our doors for sport teaching, research and performance in January 2022. 🙌
#McrMetSport
#SportResearch
#SportStudy
We're excited to be hosting the
@basesuk
Student Conference 2024 with the theme "Time for change: making sport and exercise science more sustainable". Find out more about
#manmetBASES24
at
In case you missed it: we’re working with
@UKSportsInst
to investigate how the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraception affects female athletes’ performance. Find out more:
A further panel member for tomorrow's event ('How can a university help with the challenges in women's sport?') is
@ElliottSale
. Kirsty is a leading researcher whose work focuses on areas including hormonal contraceptives, pregnancy and menopause.
Congratulations and welcome to our
@mmusport
scholars! 🎉 57 athletes from 18 disciplines will benefit from a package that includes financial support, nutrition insights, physiotherapy and access to world-class facilities.
Congratulations to alumnae and
#paralympic
champions
@TullyKearney
and
@kad_c
who were awarded their honours at Buckingham Palace earlier this month! Tully received her MBE for services to swimming and Kadeena was awarded her OBE for services to athletics and cycling. 🙌
Congratulations to Institute of Sport student and
@MMUSport
scholar,
@TullyKearney
on a new world record!
Tully beat the world's fastest time for the women's 50m freestyle S5 in Para swimming👏🙌
Investigating how the menstrual cycle affects women's physical activity🏃♀️
Research shows many women face barriers to exercise during their period. Led by
@DrPKolic
and published in the Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal
@WSPAJ
Read more:
GOODBYE, 2022! We're now signing off for the winter break and will be returning on 3 January 2023. We hope you all have a fantastic winter break and look forward to seeing you in the New Year. 👋
We're showcasing some of the brilliant people behind
#McrMetSport
in a
#WeAreMcrMetSport
series.
Hear from Dr Georgina Stebbings (
@stebbina
), Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Physiology, on her current projects and what the Institute of Sport means to her and her work.
A huge well done to our Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences who won the Department of the Year
@theunionmmu
Teaching Awards!
We're
#mcrmetproud
of all our nominees who were put forward by students! Here's what our nominees had to say👇
We're proud to be pioneers of
#SportResearch
making real-world impact in elite performance.
Prof Carl Payton's research on
#biomechanics
is transforming World Para Swimming classifications and Team GB success.
For more
#McrMetSport
research, head to:
A poll by Japan's public broadcaster NHK found 80% of Japanese people think
#Tokyo2020
should be postponed or cancelled.
Writing for
@insidethegames
, Reader in Sport Management Dr Yuhei Inoue explains why support for the
#Olympics
is falling in Japan:
Congratulations to our Technical Services Team, who won the Teaching, Learning and Research Contribution Award at the 2022 Staff Awards alongside the
@SODAmcr
team! 🎉🙌
This award recognises teams that go above and beyond to help students and academics to excel.
#manmetproud
@MMUEngage
@Carbon_Literacy
@McrMetSustain
Our Teaching, Learning and Research Contribution Award recognises two teams who go above and beyond to help our students and academics excel.
Congratulations to…
⭐ SODA and Institute of Sport Technical Services Teams 👏
As part of our partnership with
@thundernetball
, our researchers will be working with players of the Netball Super League-winning club to investigate the link between hormones and Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries:
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science student Helen Scott (
@Scottie2507
) is a Paralympic, World and Commonwealth Champion Cyclist who is passionate about women in sport and using sport and exercise science to impact the way females train and compete.
#IWD2021
#ChooseToChallenge
Our students aren't the only people who benefit from our facilities...
Meet
@Azeem_Amir99
👋
Azeem is a member of the
@EnglandFootball
blind football team. He's been training in the Institute of Sport's Environmental Chamber in preparation for his next tournament.
#McrInstSport
In a UK first, we've joined forces with
@UKSportsInst
to launch the Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport.
The Centre will be a ‘go to’ global hub for female health and performance helping to support elite athletes and wider public health.
🔗 .
Research from
@Greg___Wood
and
@JohnnyParr
showing that brain function is altered immediately after football headers has been featured in a host of media coverage over the last week. In case you missed it, we’ve compiled a range of stories from across the press in this thread. 🧵
A new partnership between
@McrInstSport
and
@SaleSharksRugby
will develop rugby talent and sport research. 🙌
As well as providing pathways into the game and educational opportunities.
Find out more 🔗 .
Tickets are now on sale for the
@basesuk
Student Conference 2024!
Time for change: making sport and exercise science sustainable, 3-4 April,
@manmetuni
.
Buy your tickets now for
#ManMetBASES24
:
We’re delighted that
@manmetuni
will be hosting
@sportexercise
(ISENC), Europe’s leading sport and nutrition conference. It will cover a wide scope of
#sportnutrition
topics from fasting to protein, requirements of female athletes, to skeletal health:
NEW DEGREE ⚽️🔥 BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership unites academic expertise from
@manmetuni
and the experience and profile of
@MU_Foundation
. It’s ideal for students wanting a future in sport development, youth leadership or community sports coaching:
FUNDED PHD RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY: Work with
@GBTaekwondo
to assess how changes in the sport’s rules affect athletes’ physiology. Closing date: 30 June. Find out more:
What state-of-the-art equipment can you find across the Institute of Sport?
This is our 3 Tesla MRI Siemens Magnetrom Vida, a piece of equipment rarely found outside of healthcare settings. Scroll down to find out more about what it does! (1/3)
#McrInstSport
#McrMetUni
Our director,
@ProfTimCable
welcoming staff this afternoon Tim talked us through the factors that make our community unique, key milestones so far for the Institute and our vision and ambitions for the future as a leading Institute of Sport!
Good luck
@_MarcScott
and
@TeamGB
today in the Men's 5000m heats!🙌
Marc is one of our current students studying MSc Sport Business, Management and Policy alongside his amazing athletics achievements!🌟
#Olympics
Thank you to everybody who attended
@basesuk
Student Conference 2024 last week!
We were delighted to welcome over 200 delegates to the conference from universities across the UK and to hear from more than 80 students who presented their work.
#ManMetBASES24
We’re ready to start our first Institute of Sport Seminar of 2023-2024! We’re looking forward to hearing from Dr Amanda Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Muscular Physiotherapy, and PhD student Tom Mitchell, who is researching data in football.
Congratulations to
@manmetuni
student Scott Johns who has won gold in ski cross at the FISU Winter World University Games! He is
@bucssport
's first-ever ski cross winner and the fourth UK gold medallist in the history of the Winter World University Games. ⛷️ 🥇
Yesterday, we celebrated the official opening of the Institute of Sport with an afternoon full of insights, new connections, and valuable discussions. Here are just a few highlights of this exciting event. 🧵
Thank you to Dr Edward Chambers at
@imperialcollege
for delivering his Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport sponsored talk, "Dietary fibre and gut microbial metabolism: a role in health and performance", at
@sportexercise
. A great session to close the conference!
We're all set up for the International Sport and Exercise Nutrition Conference (
@sportexercise
)! Come to our stand to find out more about our research, partnerships, collaboration opportunities, and professorial vacancies.
#isenc
#issmc
Did you know that
@ManMetUni
is one of ten Women's Football High Performance Centres in the UK? This Centre also includes the
@FA
Women's High Performance Goalkeeping Centre. It sees students and coaches working with goalkeepers to develop their skills:
We’ve been recognised as a leading modern university in the REF, with 90% of our research impact rated ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ across more than 740 academics. 🎉 🙌
Read more: .
#McrMetProud
#REFResults
Next, it was time to get a look at our labs 👀Guests saw our environment chamber, muscle function lab, and movement labs in action. Before heading home, they were treated to more refreshments designed by nutrition students based around sports nutrition principles.
Thanks to £400,000 funding from the
@wolfsonfdn
, we will be investing into new lab equipment and a biomechanical imaging laboratory known as ACTIVE lab. 👇
Our healthy ageing lab has been awarded £400,000 from
@wolfsonfdn
to enhance research into living well in older age, including how human movement is affected by dementia, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
Find out more 🔗 .
@McrInstSport
We're excited to see five
@ManMetUni
students competing in the British Swimming Championships! Good luck to Jay Manners, Toby Hill, Mollie Garratt, Shakil Giordani and Rebecca Amor. 🏊♂️
#BSC23
First day
@McrInstSport
as their new Professor of Female Endocrinology and Exercise Performance. Exciting times ahead with my partner in crime
@Sale_ExNut
. I’m really looking forward to working alongside
@ProfTimCable
@McpheeJS
@GladysOP1
and the rest of the team!
Meet Dan 👋
@ManMetUni
Sport Management alumni.
During his degree, Dan discovered how valuable extracurricular experiences are for development. Now, as Volunteering Lead at GreaterSport (
@GmMoving
), Dan looks back on one of the volunteering roles that shaped his sports career 👇
Sport, health, and fitness are rapidly growing sectors, becoming more competitive each year.
Whatever your ambitions, the Manchester Graduate School of Sport will help you to take the next steps in your sporting career journey.
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 and 2022!🎓 🎉
We've had a fantastic time celebrating all your achievements over the past few weeks. We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have!
#Classof2020
#Classof2022
#McrMetGrad
#McrMetProud
It was great to see so many students at the student launch event yesterday. 👋
Thanks to all of our speakers for their interesting and inspiring insights.
✨Here's a thread with some of our event highlights:
Founder and CEO of
@fearlesswomen__
@SueAnstiss
will be joining our panel at 'How can a university help with the challenges in women's sport?'. Sue is the Director of 'Game on. The Unstoppable Rise of Women’s Sport', author, podcaster and Co-Founder of Women's Sport Collective.
Did you know that we’re based in the 5th best sporting city in the world? Manchester has been recognised as one of the world’s best sporting locations by
@bcwglobal
, with top sports organisations and venues calling our city home.
Meet Hannah: a student on our BSc (Hons) Sport, Physical Activity and Health course,
@MMUSport
Sport Scholar, and climber for
@TeamGB
. She discusses her passion for climbing and gives us an insight into what it's like to balance training and studying.
#McrInstSport
#StudySport
We're showcasing some of the brilliant people behind
#McrMetSport
in a
#WeAreMcrMetSport
series.
Hear from Callum Jones, High Performance Sport Officer for
@MMUSport
on his role working with our sport scholars, club partners, and what the Institute of Sport means for his work.
Sport is a part of Manchester’s DNA.
Our city is home to world-renowned teams, brands, facilities and spaces. Can you name any must-sees?
We’ve put together an Instagram Guide rounding up some of the incredible sporting hubs that surround our city centre:
A huge well done to all our staff and students who took part in the Manchester
@Great_Run
as part of
#TeamOrange
! We’re
#mcrmetproud
of all the money you’ve raised for
@manmetuni
’s life changing First Generation Scholarships.🧡
Did you know we're the Official University Partner of the
#Manchester2023
Allianz
@paraswimming
World Championships?
Our experts are supporting Great Britain at the Championships, and our staff and students are helping behind the scenes and on poolside as volunteers.
Senior Research Associate,
@GioOrl1986
has been conducting research into how vibrating insole systems can help people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Giorgio shares his research process and the impacts he hopes his work will have on patients' lives.
#McrInstSport
#Research
A new study led by
@TomDosSantos91
has found that certain coaching methods used to create more agile athletes could be increasing their risk of serious injury. Find out more here:
We’re looking forward to welcoming internationally acclaimed expert Professor Tim Cable to join us as Director of Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport in April!
A big welcome to everybody who is attending
#ManMetBASES24
! We’re excited to be hosting two days of keynote speakers, student presentations and networking. Find out more about what is happening in our
@basesuk
Student Conference 2024 brochure:
Thank you to everybody who came to our Institute of Sport Seminar this week, and to our speakers
@sarahcollins03
,
@acfield1992
and
@jedd_pratt
! Our next Seminar will be happening at 3pm on 29 November.📅
.
@TheUnionMMU
Teaching Awards are taking place next week (22 May)! Did you know that our Department of Sport and Exercise Science won the Department of the Year Award last year? We were so
#mcrmetproud
to be recognised in this way by our students. 🏆
What role do our genetics play in sports performance?
Researchers, Dr Alun Williams and Dr Georgina Stebbings explore whether we can be 'born good' at sport.
Can we be ‘born good’ at sport? 🏅
With the
#WinterOlympics
well underway, Dr Alun Williams and Dr Georgina Stebbings (
@McrInstSport
) explain the role genetics play in sports performance.
Read more: .
#Beijing2022
Dr Dale Read (
@daleread4
) has been investigating the effects of wearing a
@dryrobe
on physiological and perceptual responses after cold water immersion. Watch to see the research in action in our environmental chamber.
The dryrobe® Advance has been designed to rewarm you quickly and improve recovery after getting out of
#coldwater
.
@ManMetUni
is conducting an independent research study, to see how wearing one after cold water immersion changes physiological and perceptual responses.
We’ve got big news coming about our new Visiting Professor! 👀Who could it be? We’ll give you some clues. They’re born in Manchester, are a champion of active travel and currently hold two world records. Stay tuned for the reveal!
@ManMetUni
Can training in the dark improve the performance of elite footballers?
Our experts are trialling new technology named Okkulo (
@OKKULO1
) which claims to improve the focus and reactions of players by training them at unique light levels.
Read more:
We were very excited to have the
@mancity
first-team bus transport our FdSc/BSc Manchester City Community Football Coaching visit day attendees from the Etihad campus to our new building on Oxford Road last week!
👨🎓| Last week
@McrInstSport
visited the Etihad Campus for the day, exploring the facilities before travelling down to the Institute of Sport in the MCFC first team bus.
Head over to our Instagram (
@CITCManCity
) to take a look back through the day!
🔷|
Well done to undergraduate student Samantha Stephens on presenting her research on "the effects of concurrent mixed-modality strength training on running economy in master club-level marathon runners" at the
@basesuk
Student Conference 2023 earlier this week!
England host the Rugby League World Cup this autumn with the finals playing right here in Manchester!
We're proud to be an Official Partner for the
@RLWC2021
presenting exciting opportunities for collaboration, and for our staff and students to get involved in the tournament.
Our Master of Sport Directorship course
@MSD_MMU
has extended a unique Women in Sport Leadership Scholarship designed to help women into top sporting jobs.
Two scholarships are available to women applying for a place on this year's course:
#WomeninSport
We want to showcase some of the brilliant people behind
#McrMetSport
in a new
#WeAreMcrMetSport
series.
First up, we asked Olivia (
@LivGreenhalgh
) KTP Associate on the Swellaway project to explain what the Institute of Sport means to her and her work.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you have a happy, healthy, and safe festive break. We have lots to look forward to in 2022! It’s going to be an incredible year for us and sport in Manchester. We’ll be logging off here until 4 January.
Thank you to this week's Institute of Sport Seminar speaker,
@BenjaminTWall
, Associate Professor at
@uniofexeter
! Next month, our very own
@laurencebirdsey
will be discussing how middle distance runners maintain maximal 1500m performance on consecutive days. 6 March, 3pm.
Looking to springboard your sporting career?
We’re home to the UK’s first Graduate School of Sport.
Our postgraduate courses give you the skills and confidence to get to where you want to be:
#SportCareer
#WorkinSport
#PostgraduateStudy
“How can a university help with the challenges in women’s sport?” (27 March) is sold out! Leading up to it, we’ll share our panel details, starting with our chair,
@DameSarahStorey
. Sarah is a Visiting Professor at
@ManMetUni
, 43 x World Champion, and 28 x
#paralympic
medallist.
In case you missed it: we’re working with
@spacegovuk
,
@nasa
and
@unitrieste
to investigate the effects of electronic stimulation on muscle strength and size retention in space and during recovery. Find out more 👇
Our
@McrInstSport
's latest project is out of this world! 🚀🌌
We're working with
@spacegovuk
,
@NASA
and
@UniTrieste
to boost astronauts’ strength in space and aid recovery once they return.
Research will also benefit the less mobile here on Earth. 🌎
🔗
Huge congratulations to
@MMUSport
Scholar and MSc Sport Business Management and Policy student
@_MarcScott
👏
First place at the Great North Run this weekend - fantastic achievement 🙌
Congratulations to our sport scholar
@_MarcScott
on his first place at the
@Great_Run
North this morning.
We are excited to see you back at
@ManMetUni
this year.