Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology Are you passionate about teaching? Are you knowledgeable in sport and exercise science? Do you want to collaborate to deliver and contribute hight quality student-led teaching? If so, this is the role...

Title: Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology

📍Place: @unikent-travel.bsky.social ‬⁩ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

💰Salary: £39,355 - £44,128 a year

📅Deadline: 31/8/25

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University of Kent seeks elite cyclists for drugs study Scientists are testing the effects of two prescription painkillers on cyclists' performances.

Elite cyclists sought to take part in drugs study www.bbc.com/news/article...

Combined with our separate assessment of performance, the set-up provides a well-controlled but 'true-to-life' measure of both the potential ergogencity of these drugs, and their potential for increasing the risk of race crashes.

Our WADA funded WAS featured on the BBC South East news bulletin, BBC Radio Kent, and the BBC website this morning - lnkd.in/eTUbwx6W . The article pictures our assessment of motor control, where we use 3D motion capture to monitor the cyclist’s ability to maintain their position on cycling rollers.

Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial - PubMed Tramadol is a potent narcotic analgesic reportedly used in multiple sports to reduce exertional pain and confer a performance advantage. This study sought to identify whether tramadol enhances perform...

So, if you’re a highly trained cyclist based around the south-east, would like to contribute to WADA’s mission to protect athletes, promote the values of clean sport, and are interested in being a participant in this study, then please get in touch. @kent.ac.uk

Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial - PubMed Tramadol is a potent narcotic analgesic reportedly used in multiple sports to reduce exertional pain and confer a performance advantage. This study sought to identify whether tramadol enhances perform...

However, in an addition to this, we will also be identifying whether these drugs impact how well a cyclist can control their bike (and therefore pose a risk to both the cyclist and their competitors). We’re using a very cool methodological set-up for this, which we’re very excited about.

Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial - PubMed Tramadol is a potent narcotic analgesic reportedly used in multiple sports to reduce exertional pain and confer a performance advantage. This study sought to identify whether tramadol enhances perform...

As with the research we did with tramadol (which WADA used as an evidence piece to subsequently place tramadol on the Prohibited List in 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37410900/), we will be looking at the potential performance enhancing effects of these drugs.

Tramadol is a performance-enhancing drug in highly trained cyclists: a randomized controlled trial - PubMed Tramadol is a potent narcotic analgesic reportedly used in multiple sports to reduce exertional pain and confer a performance advantage. This study sought to identify whether tramadol enhances perform...

We’re almost ready to click ‘go’ on our recent World Anti-Doping Agency funded research programme. This project is a follow-on from our previous work on tramadol, but in the current project we will be looking at tapentadol and dihydrocodeine – both are drugs currently on WADA’s Monitoring Programme.

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