Sports & Exercise Science
Kenji Doma
- Associate Professor
- kenji.doma@jcu.edu.au
Carl Woods
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- carl.woods@jcu.edu.au
Michael Inskip
- Senior Lecturer/AEP Clinical Educator
- michael.inskip@jcu.edu.au
Teneale McGuckin
- Senior Lecturer
- teneale.mcguckin@jcu.edu.au
Wade Sinclair
- Senior Lecturer
- wade.sinclair@jcu.edu.au
Anthony Leicht
- Head, Sport and Exercise Science
- anthony.leicht@jcu.edu.au
Brian Heilbronn
- Senior Lecturer / Clinical Educator / Clinical Placement Coordinator
- brian.heilbronn@jcu.edu.au
Fiona Barnett
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- fiona.barnett@my.jcu.edu.au
Denise Turner
- Lecturer, Sport and Exercise Science
- denise.turner@jcu.edu.au
Combat apathy in traumatic brain injury patients (Old ID 27911)
Kenji Doma
01 Feb 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
Clinicians often mention apathy as the cause for decreased treatment progression for Traumatic Brain Injury patients. TBI patients with apathy symptoms are less motivated to engage continuously in their therapy schedule. Constant monitoring of patient engagement can help clinicians better measure patient progress and personalise the treatment accordingly. However, current clinical measurements of apathy cannot provide clinicians with continuous feedback. This project offers a novel continuous comprehensive measure of apathy feedback to assist clinicians with assessing and improving patient recovery. This apathy measure will combine traditional clinical measures of apathy with neurophysiological data collected from a virtual reality exoskeleton device.
Identifying the impact of cognitive fitness on decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials (Old ID 26765)
Kenji Doma
01 Mar 2020 - 18 Dec 2020
Officiating team sport matches requires engagement of complex physical and mental/cognitive processes. Superior cognitive fitness may assist with management of match stresses for greater decision-making. This project will: 1) identify the current cognitive fitness levels of elite NRL officials; and 2) examine the impact of cognitive and/or physical stress on elite NRL official’s decision-making proficiency; 3) clarify how cognitive fitness level moderates elite NRL officials’ decision-making proficiency. This project will provide recommendations to enhance the decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials with reference to cognitive fitness.
Identifying the impact of cognitive fitness on decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials (Old ID 26765)
Wade Sinclair
01 Mar 2020 - 18 Dec 2020
Officiating team sport matches requires engagement of complex physical and mental/cognitive processes. Superior cognitive fitness may assist with management of match stresses for greater decision-making. This project will: 1) identify the current cognitive fitness levels of elite NRL officials; and 2) examine the impact of cognitive and/or physical stress on elite NRL official’s decision-making proficiency; 3) clarify how cognitive fitness level moderates elite NRL officials’ decision-making proficiency. This project will provide recommendations to enhance the decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials with reference to cognitive fitness.
Identifying the impact of cognitive fitness on decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials (Old ID 26765)
Anthony Leicht
01 Mar 2020 - 18 Dec 2020
Officiating team sport matches requires engagement of complex physical and mental/cognitive processes. Superior cognitive fitness may assist with management of match stresses for greater decision-making. This project will: 1) identify the current cognitive fitness levels of elite NRL officials; and 2) examine the impact of cognitive and/or physical stress on elite NRL official’s decision-making proficiency; 3) clarify how cognitive fitness level moderates elite NRL officials’ decision-making proficiency. This project will provide recommendations to enhance the decision-making capacity of elite NRL officials with reference to cognitive fitness.
National centre of research excellence to improve management of peripheral arterial disease (Old ID 18517)
Anthony Leicht
01 Oct 2010 - 01 Oct 2016
The National Centre for Research Excellence to improve the management of PAD will instigate four central initiatives focused on facilitating research studies designed to improve the management of PAD. These initiatives are establishing a clinical trial network, developing a linked clinical and biobank registry, setting up a preclinical development group and creating an evidence based guideline development and implementation group. The centre will bring together experts in PAD, clinical trials and guideline development and implementation from a range of specialities dealing with PAD from centres throughout Australia.
Examining playing performance in Rugby Union via static and dynamic approaches (Old ID 26769)
Anthony Leicht
01 Mar 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
Innovative technology within elite sport has provided high performance staff with an abundance of player and team performance metrics – ‘big rugby data’. Despite the availability of this information, the crucial keys to match success in rugby union remain unknown, possibly due to the complexity of match play. This project will evaluate the complexity of elite rugby union matches by examining teams’ performance via novel sport analytics considering static and dynamic approaches. Outcomes will identify the keys to success from a micro to macro level and assist coaching staff to optimise strategies for enhanced success within rugby union.
Independent Testing of Buoyancy Aids in Situ for Surf Life Saving Australia - Phase V (Old ID 23058)
Anthony Leicht
01 Nov 2016 - 01 May 2017
Following recent amendments to Australian Standards pertaining to minimum buoyancy, this project will evaluate a range of fitted buoyancy aids adhering to the revised buoyancy standards in a fit for purpose assessment of competitive and training activities directly associated with lifesaving sport in situ in qualified surf lifesavers (youth to masters). The findings from this project will enable the sport's governing body, Surf Life Saving Australia to provide evidence based decisions and policy regarding the use of buoyancy aids for usage within lifesaving sport for competition and training purposes.
Game, Training and Individual Performance Analytics of Elite Rugby League Players (Old ID 23633)
Anthony Leicht
01 Nov 2017 - 31 Oct 2021
Evaluating training and game performances I elite sport is an information-rich environment particularly with the additional of data analytic companies providing real-time and post-competition analyses for coaching staff. Additionally, the inclusion of wearable technology and in particular, the inclusion of global positioning systems in to the elite training environment have empowered high performance personnel with an overabundance of performance data through which evidence-based evaluations can be made. However, with the inclusion of such technology in to the contemporary elite training environment, coaching staff are now faced with interpretative decisions pertaining to what metrics are suitable and under what constraints.
Building Capacity for Frailty management in Regional Queensland Residential Aged Care Facilities
Kenji Doma
01 Oct 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
Virtually all older adults living within aged care are at risk of becoming or are currently frail, with increased risk of adverse health outcomes. The core treatments for frailty are good nutrition, medication optimisation, and robust exercise, which was recently evaluated in the novel Frailty Reduction via Implementation of Exercise, Nutrition and Deprescribing (FRIEND) trial. This trial developed comprehensive training resources for the aged care sector. This project aims to build capacity through dissemination of this training to aged care champions across regional Queensland facilities and support them to improve frailty care and client health within their facility.
The project has two main project aims:
1. Disseminate FRIEND in an online and in-person, train-the-trainer model to build capacity of aged care champions and key regional, healthcare professionals
2. Support aged care champions to develop local facility training, and an organisational strategy for improving frailty care
The study will involve two phases:
1. Pre/post evaluation of a train-the-trainer education intervention (FRIEND website modules and an intensive one-day course on frailty management). Five strategically located RACFs across North-West Queensland will nominate an aged care champion (i.e. senior staff member) by early September to complete website training and travel to Townsville for intensive training in Late October/Early November along with local healthcare professionals (e.g. nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, social workers) working within aged care.
2. Involves evaluation of the champion-led local training implementation development of an organisational strategy to improve frailty care over a six-month period. The champion will identify key implementation/leadership staff and training needs to develop a 1–2-hour training webinar and develop an organisational strategy to improve frailty management in their facility
Building Capacity for Frailty management in Regional Queensland Residential Aged Care Facilities
Anthony Leicht
01 Oct 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
Virtually all older adults living within aged care are at risk of becoming or are currently frail, with increased risk of adverse health outcomes. The core treatments for frailty are good nutrition, medication optimisation, and robust exercise, which was recently evaluated in the novel Frailty Reduction via Implementation of Exercise, Nutrition and Deprescribing (FRIEND) trial. This trial developed comprehensive training resources for the aged care sector. This project aims to build capacity through dissemination of this training to aged care champions across regional Queensland facilities and support them to improve frailty care and client health within their facility.
The project has two main project aims:
1. Disseminate FRIEND in an online and in-person, train-the-trainer model to build capacity of aged care champions and key regional, healthcare professionals
2. Support aged care champions to develop local facility training, and an organisational strategy for improving frailty care
The study will involve two phases:
1. Pre/post evaluation of a train-the-trainer education intervention (FRIEND website modules and an intensive one-day course on frailty management). Five strategically located RACFs across North-West Queensland will nominate an aged care champion (i.e. senior staff member) by early September to complete website training and travel to Townsville for intensive training in Late October/Early November along with local healthcare professionals (e.g. nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, social workers) working within aged care.
2. Involves evaluation of the champion-led local training implementation development of an organisational strategy to improve frailty care over a six-month period. The champion will identify key implementation/leadership staff and training needs to develop a 1–2-hour training webinar and develop an organisational strategy to improve frailty management in their facility
Performance advantages of left-handed cricket batting talent
- 2020
- Frontiers Research
- Researchers:Jonathan ConnorAnthony LeichtKenji Doma
Acute hormonal responses to high-intensity interval training in hyperoxia
- 2020
- De Gruyter
- Researchers:Kenji Doma
Pre-operative clinical predictors for cardiology referral prior to total joint arthroplasty: the 'asymptomatic' patient
- 2020
- BioMed Central
- Researchers:Kenji DomaHayley Letson
Acute effects of traditional resistance training on sport-specific performance in adolescent cricket players
- 2020
- Australian Strength and Condtioning Association
- Researchers:Teneale McGuckinAnthony LeichtKenji Doma
Weekly vagal modulations and their associations with physical fitness and physical activity
- 2021
- Taylor and Francis
- Researchers:Anthony Leicht
The type and variation of evasive manoeuvres during an attacking task differ across a rugby league development pathway
- 2020
- Taylor & Francis
- Researchers:Leesa GrierAnthony LeichtWade Sinclair
Editorial: performance analysis in sport
- 2020
- Frontiers Research
- Researchers:Anthony Leicht
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