Real honour to take home the inaugural #MJAAward for PR last night for our work @uniofbath in promoting Keith Stokes ‘ benchmark study all about reducing injuries in youth rugby bath.ac.uk/research/news/… - and to join Matthew Hill in making it a double hit for the South West!

Searching for the ideal candidate for this PhD opportunity focusing on running and wearable tech. Collaboration between University of Bath & Impact Tech Labs... x.com/iszio/status/1…

🏉 Crouch. Bind. Set! Research by Keith Stokes, Prof in Sports Science University of Bath & England Rugby research lead, is making rugby scrums safer. This British Science Week, set yourself a new career path ➡ bit.ly/2Cz9QCh #FutureJobs #BSW19 #SixNations

Delighted to submit my thesis today. Massive thanks to the players and staff of 13 Premiership teams involved in the work. Huge thank you to my fantastic supervisors Keith Stokes & Sean Williams for all their help & to @drsimonkemp & @mattjcrossie for their continued support pic.x.com/amqhVK5Xwz

Really excited to advertise a new PhD studentship to continue our injury surveillance and prevention work in pro rugby union in England with University of Bath England Rugby PREM Rugby Deadline 27 June. Expert supervision from Carly McKay Sean Williams (and me) findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

Only a few days left to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity in injury surveillance and prevention in professional rugby union. DEADLINE: 27 June

Patterns of training volume and injury risk in elite rugby union: an analysis of 1.5 million hours of training exposure over eleven seasons #JSSAcceptedToday via @westy160991 Sean Williams @drsimonkemp @mattjcrossie Carly McKay Keith Stokes

You can apply for PhD studentship funding from @GW4BioMedDTP for a project on ‘clearing confusion from concussion’ run by Universities of Exeter, Bath and Cardiff: gw4biomed.ac.uk/available-proj… and gw4biomed.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… Deadline 25/11/19 #concussion #neuroscience

Exciting chance to apply for PhD studentship funding from MRC LID for project on long-term effects of rugby: mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/projects/ and mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/files/2019/10/… #rugby #epidemiology

Apply for PhD studentship funding to study ‘A ‘coordinated’ response to concussion management’ with Cassie Wilson RS@Bath. More info: bath.ac.uk/publications/f… and page 12 of bath.ac.uk/publications/f…

PhD opportunity with me Sean Williams @mattjcrossie @drsimonkemp funded by England Rugby PREM Rugby and University of Bath on game events, surface type and injury risk in professional rugby union. Deadline 27/11/19 findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

Excited this paper is out @westy160991 Sean Williams @drsimonkemp @mattjcrossie Carly McKay Fuller Taylor Brooks: Patterns of training volume and injury risk in elite rugby union: An analysis of 1.5 million hours of training exposure over eleven seasons tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It's out! The IOC consensus statement on epidemiological research methods. Thanks to British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) and OJSM_SportsMed for co-publishing the new guidelines today. FREE! RT, please! bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

New Paper: Consensus on video analysis in rugby in British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) 🏉🔬 bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…. Let's improve the consistency & quality of video analysis work to ⬇️injury, ⬆️performance, assist medical protocols🩺 & referee decision making👀 Special thanks to BJSM editors & reviewers

Returning to play after prolonged training restrictions in collision sports thieme-connect.com/products/ejour… Prof Ben Jones @mattjcrossie @EliteSC7 Prof Graeme L. Close Nic gill James Hull Dr. Andreas M. Kasper @drsimonkemp Stephen Mellalieu Nick Peirce @fizziobob Benjamin T Wall @westy160991

The #COVID19 pandemic has resulted in widespread training disruption in many sports. In this article Keith Stokes, Prof Ben Jones & Co. give insights into strategies for safe & effective return to play in contact #sports. 🏈 Read the full article here ➡️ fal.cn/3boYJ

🚨New today in IJSM 🚨 Headgear use in professional men's rugby union does not reduce concussion risk. Thanks to Keith Stokes on all the hard work in pulling this together. Full-text link: ➡️@ThiemeNY ➡️ thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…

#Concussion is the most common match injury in #rugby union. 🏉 To what extent can padded headgear be of use here? 🧐 Learn more in this article in the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 by Keith Stokes & Co.➡️ fal.cn/3fCnQ

Head impacts in sport? ‘Without data, you’re another person with an opinion’ Instrumented mouthguard’s the solution? 1st, check the validity (bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/7/3/e0…) Lab, field validity ✅ Player, practitioner feasibility ✅ Results in British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

The University of Bath are conducting a study to find out about the health, physical activity quality of life of current & former male & female rugby players from recreational playing standards. For more information and to sign up to take part: bath.ac.uk/announcements/…