Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport

Welcome to the Peter Harrison Centre Website

 

To celebrate the re-launch of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC), you will see that the website has been redesigned with a contemporary new look and enhanced accessibility. To read more about this please see our News page.

The Centre would like to provide a warm welcome to the new members of staff and students who are associated with the Centre. This includes Dr Vicky Tolfrey who has been appointed as the new Director and Dr David Howe who is the Centre's Deputy Director. Profiles of all the staff members and students associated with the Centre can be seen on the Contacts page.

The Centre has also been given a new set of Aims & Objectives and a Mission Statement which can be accessed from the Aims webpage. The Centre will now carry out two strands of research:

The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport would like to express its gratitude to the Peter Harrison Foundation and the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University who have supported the research centre from its initial conception through to the re-launch of its second phase.

Latest News

 

Latest Summer 2008 PHC Newsletter

Avaliable to download in PDF or Word format.

New Guide on - Performance profiling and its use in talent identification in Paralympic sports

By Helen Alfano, the EIS ParalympicGB Sport Science Officer.

Success of PHC's First Interest Group Meeting

The meetings are orientated around physiology and Paralympic research and stimulate discussion for future and collaborative projects.