The College are delighted to be hosting tonight’s UKCCIIS Gala Dinner. Thank you to all who have joined us and we look forward to a night of networking and engagement. #UKCCIISConf24

Fantastic opening keynote to start day 2 from UKCCIIS and CHi2PS co-director Carly McKay . Human factors affect every level & stakeholder within the prevention context, do we think about them enough and are we aware of the complexity of interactions between them?

Day 2 of oral presentations from abstract submissions. Another highlight reel of work across sports. Three rugby presentations from Gemma Knight Hannah & Hamish Gornall examining attitudes and behaviours, injury trends and prevention and tackle height evaluation

🏉 Illegal tackles make up 23% of match concussions but 🏉 Illegal tackles only make up 0.5% of all match tackles. UKCCIIS - IOC Research Centre of Excellence Irish Rugby Injury Surveillance, IRIS Project

Excellent final day at UKCCIIS - IOC Research Centre of Excellence conference. Rugby-specific injury prevention from Ross Tucker and Tommy Comyns PhD, OLY. Fascinating Q&A with Dr Izzy Moore Karen Barclay, Stephen West & Evert Verhagen to finish off an outstanding event. 👏 Dr Debbie Palmer OLY Andrew Murray and everyone else

🧵1/6 Where to start. Its been a blast. It’ll take a while to digest the last 2 days UKCCIIS - IOC Research Centre of Excellence inaugural conference. Insightful talks about IP initiatives fr. world renowned researchers across diverse sports. New knowledge/data, from the usual suspects 🏉⚽️& a host of new sports.

Back for one final message to congratulate the oral competition winner Ash kolstad from SIPRC and poster competition winner Kathryn Dane from Trinity College Dublin . Congrats to you both and see you next time!

🚨New publication from christy fehr 🚨 Head contact and suspected concussion rates in youth🏀 With only 23-49% of "severe" head contacts penalised, is penalisation a low hanging fruit for prevention? Access online: journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/ab…

New Paper: Paving the path for injury prevention in rugby‐7s: A systematic review and meta‐analysis in Euro J Sport Science #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… Janesh Ganda Rizaan Behardien Kathryn Dane Stephen West caemery Prof Ben Jones 🏉🔬 #sevens

Congrats to all students who graduated from University of Bath Health programs yesterday. Particular best wishes to MSc Sp orts Physio student Gemma Skudder Physio and MSci student Ruth Leese completing their theses with me in concussion prevention and rehabilitation #watchthisspace

After five enjoyable yet challenging years, I graduated on Tuesday from the University of Bath with a Masters in Sport and Exercise Science with first-class honours. A special thanks to my supervisor Stephen West for his invaluable insights, guidance, and unwavering support.

Let’s go Ireland Men's Hockey Hockey Ireland #Paris2024 #OlympicGames

Costa del sandycove ☀️☀️☀️

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25e on a bank holiday Monday. Best value golf course in Ireland: Corballis Links Golf Change my mind!

BREAKING: Ireland’s Kellie Harrington strikes gold again as she defends her Olympic crown with victory over Yang Wenlu in Paris 🇮🇪🥇

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*** 2024/25 Recruitment! *** Run in conjunction with the University of Bath, the CRISP Project collects injury data from across the community game. We need teams in the adult men's, adult women's and age grade game to share their injury data. (1/2)

New paper on training load in sport: flawed practices and weak logic. Stephen West Franco Impellizzeri Ian Shrier Patrick Ward Jo Clubb We discuss challenges faced when using training load monitoring and management to inform load management guidelines tinyurl.com/3e32dm3k

Training load mandates and guidelines in sport Evidence based or overcautious? 🚫 Challenges ✅ Solutions Enjoyed working with this star studded cast on this one. Still lots to do to protect athletes and optimise performance. Open access: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…