I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity and a member of the Sports Engineering Research Group. I specialise in Applied Computing and Sports Analytics and combine this with my love of elite sport. I lead a research partnership with the International Tennis Federation, and I work with many British Olympic and Paralympic teams. I work in the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, allowing me to transfer my work in sport to health and physical activity applications, including an NIHR funded project to develop a data system to support treatment of cancer patients.

I am a Senior Research Fellow in the in the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity and I specialise in Applied Computing and Sports Analytics. My love of numbers culminated in a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Sheffield. I combined that with my love of sport in a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University, sponsored by the International Tennis Federation, to develop a method to measure the spin rates of tennis balls during competitive play.

I am now a member of the Sports Engineering Research Group through which I apply my skills to elite sport. I lead a research partnership with the International Tennis Federation. This partnership supports their governance of the game, including bespoke lab and field-based systems to measure the performance of rackets, balls and the surface. I have also designing their world ranking methods for the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King cup by creating computer models of both competition structures and optimising the ranking systems using those models

I work with Olympic and Paralympic teams such as Swimming and Boccia, creating bespoke data and video collection, processing, storage, and analysis tools to improve performance analysis methods. These systems incorporate mobile apps, cloud data storage and 3rd party software integration and allow high level data analytics through platforms such as Power BI.

I am based at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre which allows me to transfer my work with elite sport to health and physical activity applications. A key example is an NIHR funded project to develop a data system to support treatment of cancer patients. This system will be used to manage the prescription and logging of exercise designed to treat the symptoms of cancer treatments.

My research interests lie in Sports Analytics, where I focus on predicting and enhancing sports performance through data analysis, modelling, and simulation. My work includes developing ranking systems, validating performance technologies, and improving handicapping algorithms. My overarching goal is to raise the profile and impact of Sports Analytics at Sheffield Hallam University by integrating research with teaching and industry engagement.