Congratulations to sarah chantler who’s just run a marathon from Leeds to the Boathouse, currently recovering and rehydrating. Amazing stuff congratulations. 🙌🏼🙌🏼

🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨 Evaluating, developing, and implementing a head safe tackle coaching curriculum in Rugby League with the great teams Carnegie School of Sport and Rugby Football League Further details via the link or get in touch with @annastoDr or myself. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/courses/studen…

‼️Are the match demands of international netball and Netball Super League different? 💭 New league-wide study of 843 match observations 🏐📊 Comparison of movement characteristics of international and elite domestic netball match-play ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Open access 🔓: doi.org/10.1080/247486…

Interesting debate on safety vs spectacle in NRL Based on analysis of c.200 concussive v c.6500 non-concussive tackles in Rugby Football League Betfred Super League - KO has relatively higher rate of concussion than normal tackles. But so does Try Scoring. Cameron Owen has this study under-review.

New Editorial: Applying diffusion innovation theory to evaluate the attributes of the new tackle law in rugby football codes SASMA British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) 🇿🇦💪🏾bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/…

How did the strength, aerobic capacity, body composition, energy requirements and blood work of international women's rugby league players change in the build up to the Rugby League World Cup? Find out here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Injury incidence and burden were similar between the men's and women's Super League. Injury prevention strategies should focus on reducing the incidence of head & knee injuries with equal and specific focus given to men's & women's players. Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.jsam…

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨 🧠🏉📜 2nd PhD paper published in Injury Prevention. Prof Ben Jones Prof. Kevin Till Lucy Chesson Dr James C. Brown @mattjcrossie Rich Johnston Sharief Hendricks 🇿🇦 Keith Stokes Andrew Gardner Gemma Phillips Laura Fairbank injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

As part of the next study in my PhD, I want to look at coach opinions around the girls game / player pathway. If you are a youth female R.L. Coach please follow the link in my bio and complete the questionnaire. Thanks in advance 🙏🙏

New Paper: Head Acceleration Events During Tackle, Ball-Carry, and Ruck Events in Professional Southern Hemisphere Men's Rugby Union Matches: A Study Using Instrumented Mouthguards in SJMSS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… by Gregory Roe

Fantastic work by Lara Wilson 👏🏽. This marks the first publication from her match-funded PhD in collaboration with Scottish Rugby & Carnegie School of Sport focusing on international women’s rugby 🏉. Thanks for sharing Tom Coughlin 🙌🏽.

Does the body composition, strength, aerobic capacity, energy requirements and blood work of international women’s rugby league players change over a 1 year period? Our recent manuscript published in PLOS answers. Read in more detail here: doi.org/10.1371/journa… (open access)

🎥Performance Analyst Opportunity Work within the Carnegie Applied Rugby Research (CARR) group and alongside the RFL. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4045…

Big thanks to Martyn for the invite to be on the podcast. Really interesting to hear coaching perspectives on lowering the tackle height in rugby league and how to deal with the challenge. If you’re interested in how to approach coaching the lower tackle, give it a listen.

🚨 New research! Studying Contact Replays: Investigating Mechanisms, Management and Game Exposures (SCRIMMAGE) for brain health in the Australasian National Rugby League: a protocol for a database design bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e…

New Paper: ‘Mind your head’, tackle characteristics associated with concussions in rugby league: A case-control study in JSAMS by Cameron Owen Prof Ben Jones sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🏉🔬

New Paper: Can a novel computer vision-based framework detect head-on-head impacts during a rugby league tackle? injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/… 🏉🔬

Great to get up to Leeds last week to discuss all things injury! Some fantastic work in the pipeline. But thank you to everyone for the kind hospitality Prof Ben Jones Omar Heyward Liam Colbert @yegphysio Sean Scantlebury Cameron Owen and great to see you Brooke_Patterson

🏉 Funded 4-Year PhD Opportunity | RU-InSiGT Project in collaboration with the Rugby Football Union, PREM Rugby, Premiership Women's Rugby & Catapult FIND OUT MORE & APPLY HERE: bit.ly/RU-INGST_PhD

New 4-year funded #PhDstudentship focused on reducing head acceleration events and concussions in women’s rugby league, while also optimising player performance with Leeds Rhinos Women x Carnegie School of Sport 🧠🏉 bit.ly/CSS_LeedsRhino…