Dr Kevin Lamb

Reader in Sport and Exercise Sciences

Qualifications

BA, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FBASES

Overview

Kevin is a BASES Accredited Exercise Physiologist (Research) and has been in the Department since 1992. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant and a Lecturer in the Department of Movement Science at the University of Liverpool. Kevin has taught across all levels at Chester and for 10 years delivered Research Methods/Statistics modules in Hong Kong and Singapore.

He has supervised many final-year undergraduate and over 50 Masters Dissertations and is currently co-supervising 8 PhD students within the Department. A former member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Physical Education, Kevin recently coordinated the Department's successful submission to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

In September 2011 Kevin was made a Fellow of BASES for in recognition of his “esteemed professional achievement, skills, knowledge and service to BASES and the sport and exercise science community”.

Teaching

Kevin's specialist areas are Exercise Physiology and Research Methods/Statistics and he teaches on the following modules:

Measurement and Evaluation Issues in Exercise Physiology (Level 2)
Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Sciences (Level 2)
Exercise in Health and Disease (Level 3)
Dissertation in Exercise Physiology (Level 3)
Research Methods in Sports Sciences (MSc)

Kevin also supervises Masters Dissertation students, specialising in Exercise Physiology and Performance Analysis.

Kevin is the Department’s Assessment, Progression and Achievement Officer and sits on the University’s undergraduate Awards Assessment Boards.

Research

Research Interests

Perceived exertion
Reliability and validity of fitness and performance measures
Performance analysis in elite sport
Exercise-induced muscle damage and perceptual responses during endurance exercise
Effects of carbohydrate and protein supplementation on recovery of performance

External Examining

2010; PhD, University of Exeter
2010; PhD, University of Coventry

Published work

Selected publications

Highton, J.M., Lamb, K.L., Twist, C., & Nicholas, C. (2012). The reliability and validity of short-distance sprint performance assessed on a non-motorised treadmill. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 26, 458-465.

Waldron, M., Worsfold, P., Twist, C., & Lamb, K.L. (2011) Concurrent validity and test re-test reliability of a Global Positioning System (GPS) and timing gates to assess sprint performance variables. Journal of Sports Sciences, 29, 1613-1619.

Sykes, D., Twist, C., Nicholas, C., & Lamb, K. (2011). Changes in locomotive rates during senior elite rugby league matches. Journal of Sports Sciences, 29, 1263-1271.

Morris, M., Lamb, K.L., Hayton, J., Cotterrell, D., & Buckley, J. (2010). The validity and reliability of predicting maximal oxygen uptake from a treadmill-based sub-maximal perceptually regulated exercise test. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 109, 983-988.

Sykes, D., Twist, C., Hall, S., Nicholas, C., & Lamb, K.L. (2009). Semi-automated time-motion analysis of senior elite rugby league. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 9 (1), 47-59.

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