Sport and Life Sciences staff

Dr Peter Thain

Associate Professor and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy

As a Chartered Physiotherapist and Sports Therapist, Peter has over a decade of experience working in basketball, football and netball. Peter is currently the clinical lead for the Great Britain Senior Women's Basketball Team, overseeing all performance and medical services. He has travelled the globe working at the...

Dr Kate Thomson

Associate Professor

Dr Kate Thomson is Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees for Health and leads on all aspects of recruitment, oversight and student experience for PhD (Health) . She is also a member of the Public Health & Therapies department. Kate completed her postgraduate study at the University of Birmingham with a PhD on learning...

Dr Martin Vreugdenhil

Senior Lecturer in Human Physiology

Martin studied Biomedical Science at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and developed a strong interest in neuroscience, especially in epilepsy. He did his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam (focus on changes in cell physiology in a rat model of epilepsy). After a post-doctoral research position at the...

Dr Sara Zarti

Course Leader of Master of Public Health Courses & Public Health Lecturer

Sara brings substantial experience of almost 10 years in the public health field and humanitarian and emergencies sector working in World Health Organization (WHO) which focused on different programs, mainly Communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as Public health Emergencies. She has worked with the International...