Professor Jamie Highton
Professor
Biography
Jamie Highton is a Professor of Applied Sports Physiology in the Division of Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing. Jamie leads on exercise physiology, coordinating the area across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is also the Sport and Exercise Sciences' Research Development Officer, with responsibility for developing and coordinating relevant research activities and leading on the area's submission to the Research Excellence Framework.
Teaching and Supervision
Jamie has extensive experience of teaching exercise physiology and research methods. Jamie teaches across all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate sport and exercise sciences provision at Chester. He leads modules on measurement and evaluation issues in exercise physiology, sports nutrition and performance. He is also the pathway leader for the MSc in Sports Performance Science.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Jamie has considerable experience of conducting research on the physiology of sports performance. His primary focus has been on the physiology of team sports, specialising in rugby. He has published widely on the demands of matches (physiological, perceptual and cognitive), training load, training and testing, fatigue, exercise-induced muscle damage, recovery, pacing, nutritional supplementation, and measurement issues such as reliability and validity. This work has been used to inform applied practice in several ways. Beyond performance sport, Jamie also has research interests in quantitative research methods and, more recently, how physiological characteristics associated with sports performance relate to health.