16 May 2016
Doha, 16 May 2016. Aspire Academy has been actively involved since 2015, in partnership with Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA), in one of the world’s leading applied exercise, nutrition and sports science conferences focused on the promotion of excellence in education, research and professional practice.
As part of this partnership, Aspire Academy sponsors select academic awards given to leading sports science abstracts around the world, namely the Young Investigator and Early Career Research Awards and the Aspire Academy Internship Award. The latter is given in recognition of work that is most closely aligned with the Mission of Aspire Academy and is judged by an Aspire Academy representative. To be considered for these awards, the abstract must be submitted to any of the Aspire Academy Young Investigator Awards or Aspire Academy Early Career Researcher Awards.
In April, Aspire Academy’s Director of Sports Science, Professor Tim Cable, attended the 2016 ESSA Research to Practice conference in Melbourne, Australia to choose the winners and runner-ups of the Aspire Academy sponsored prizes. As part of the judging panel, Professor Cable and his colleagues judged on the basis of scientific quality, novelty and potential impact of the abstracts.
There were 302 abstracts submitted in total with 52 entered for the Early Career Research Award and 145 for the Young Investigators Award. The winner received AU $4,000 while the runner-up received AU $1,000.
ASPIRE ACADEMY YOUNG INVESTIGATOR – EXERCISE SCIENCE & HEALTH
Winner: Lauren McKeown
Runner-Up: James Devin
ASPIRE ACADEMY YOUNG INVESTIGATOR – SPORTS SCIENCE
Winner: Christopher Stevens
Runner-Up: Brendan R Scott
ASPIRE ACADEMY EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER - EXERCISE SCIENCE & HEALTH
Winner: Ashlee Hendy
Runner-Up: Jenny Gianoudis
ASPIRE ACADEMY EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER – SPORTS SCIENCE
Winner: Geoffrey Minett
Runner-Up: Nathan Elsworthy
ASPIRE ACADEMY INTERNSHIP AWARD
Winner 2016: Brendon R Scott - “Hypoxia during resistance exercise does not affect physical performance, perceived exertion or neuromuscular recovery from training”