What It's Really Like to be a Sports Scientist
About this episode
Dr Joel Mason, PhD, is an international award-winning sport scientist with a PhD in neuromuscular physiology, a decade of experience guiding Australian track and field athletes to international representation, and five years as a high-performance manager for top-flight European football teams, in addition to his roles as an educator and researcher. His research profile spans running performance and biomechanics, neural correlates of performance and health, and injury risk factors, and he recently worked with podcast co-host Prof. Ross Tucker on research into the effects of supershoes on women versus men (see show notes below). Mason also details the challenges facing sports scientists, what job prospects look like, and the satisfaction he gets from applying scientific knowledge to his day-to-day coaching role.
SHOW NOTES:
- Mason's Trackademic website
- Follow Mason on Instagram
- The most recent shoe paper showing that women get more benefit from super shoes than men. Mason collaborated with co-host, Prof. Ross Tucker, on this paper
- A previous supershoe paper by Mason, which paved the way for the recent analysis in men and women
- Mason's Google Scholar page, with links to other studies he has published
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