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A warm welcome to Dr Laurie Needham who has joined CAMERA as a Research Associate in the Department for Health and will be exploring the use of markerless motion capture and other computer vision techniques for applications within sports biomechanics. Dr Needham received his PhD in biomechanics and motor control...
Dr Elena Seminati gave a fascinating Bath University TEDx 2019 talk at The Edge. This free event had 9 speakers covering a wide range of subjects, ranging from homelessness, disabilities, advances in the medical field and world policies. You can watch the event video here. Dr Seminati is a lecturer...
A warm welcome to Dr Logan Wade who has joined CAMERA as a Research Associate within the Department of Health. Dr Logan Wade joins us from the University of Queensland and will be working closely with Dr Polly McGuigan and Prof James Bilzon. He will be working with the new...
What better day than International Day of Women and Girls in Science to celebrate the recent appointment of Dr Steffi Colyer to Lecturer in Biomechanics within the University of Bath’s Department for Health? We caught up with Dr Colyer to find out a little more about her research. ‘I joined...
Researchers at CAMERA are helping to develop an app that allows arthritis patients to monitor their symptoms on a smartphone. A partnership between the healthtech company Living With, the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH), and the University of Bath has been awarded a major grant to develop...
An exciting new project has been launched at CAMERA. Researchers James Cowburn, Dr Dario Cazzola, Dr Steffi Colyer and Dr Aki Salo will assess the movement forces on human lower limbs in low gravity settings using computer simulation and anti-gravity devices. A joint European Space Agency (ESA) – University of...
Another article by Dr Steffi Colyer and Dr Aki Salo (with researchers Dr Ryu Nagahara and Dr Yohei Takai) has been selected as the Editor’s Choice for December 2018 in the prestigious Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. How sprinters accelerate beyond the velocity plateau of soccer players:...
We have two new papers recently published. How sprinters accelerate beyond the velocity plateau of soccer players: Waveform analysis of ground reaction forces The forces applied to the ground during sprinting (as well as aerodynamic drag) directly determine an athlete’s acceleration, which is clearly important to many athletics events, but...
Dr Polly McGuigan has contributed to some noteworthy broadcasts recently, discussing some of her work outside of CAMERA, both on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 4. You can listen to Dr McGuigan discussing how fast a human can run on Radio 4 “The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry” which...
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