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UCL has launched an Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health to create a hub of expertise for sports and exercise-related research. In this Q&A, director Fares Haddad explains the purpose of the new Institute and gives an insight into its research and its goals. Q: How will the new Institute advance the sports and exercise-related research taking place elsewhere at UCL and beyond? A: The Institute will hope to bring together the various bodies doing sports and exercise-related research at UCL, which include the John Scales Centre for Biomedical Engineering, ASPIRE, a charity which supports people with spinal injury, the Institute of Human Performance, the Hatter Institute and many others. We want to integrate all their sports- and exercise-related research to facilitate the use of limited funds. Our key partners in terms of sports-related work and research outside of UCL will be the universities of Warwick, Nottingham, Loughborough, Sheffield and Bristol and Bath. Q: UCL has a lot of expertise in biomedicine - how will the Institute tap into and extend this? A: There will be a great deal of clinical work focusing on high-end outcomes in athletes and in sport as a whole. Many of our interventions, particularly drug-related and surgical interventions for injuries, have tended to accept a less than perfect outcome.
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