Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies

Cooper SM

Biography

Steve is a sport scientist with broad teaching and research interests and expertise in sport performance, physical fitness, Physical Education, coaching, measurement issues, research design, applied biostatistics and data analysis. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a Member of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. Steve's teaching and research interests are broadly centred on investigating, analyzing and modelling data recorded in the sport, exercise, coaching and health sciences and include: i) investigating the relationships between physiological and sport performance data and body size (scaling), ii) scaling health and performance indices of adolescents and children, iii) auxology, as it related to sports performance and physical fitness, iv) androgyny of physique in sports men and women, v) fat-patterning in games players, and, vi) the relationships between genetics, body composition and power in games players. Steve has reviewed manuscripts submitted for publication in many high impact journals, and he also has extensive experience in terms of programme and module development as well as examining taught programmes and research degrees within and without Cardiff Metropolitan University. Steve is also a member of the Journal of Sport Sciences (Sport Performance Section) Editorial Advisory Panel and he is a member of the Statistics Advisory Panel for the British Medical Journal (Open).​

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