Dr Greg Doncaster

Profile

Biography

Greg Doncaster is a Senior Lecturer in Coaching and Sports Performance specializing in the analysis of sporting performance. Greg’s teaching responsibilities within the current programme focus on providing students with an understanding and insight into a range of scientific principles and their application to sporting performance and human movement, with a specific emphasis on testing and training.

Greg joined Edge Hill University in September 2014, he has experience of working in high performance settings having worked as a Lead Sports Scientist for Stoke City FC’s Academy prior to his role at Edge Hill. His PhD focused on investigating the effects of cardio-respiratory fitness on soccer performance in highly trained youth soccer players and was awarded by Staffordshire University. Prior to this Greg completed his BSc (Hons) and MSc at University of Chester.

Research Interests

Greg’s research focuses in the area of applied physiology and sporting performance, particularly within high-level youth team sports athletes. He has a clear commitment to research-informed practice and evidence-based teaching. Greg’s has a range of research interests including the analysis and interpretation of physical performance data, the effects of growth and maturation on physical performance in highly trained youth soccer players, and the presence and implications of the Relative Age Effect within verying contexts. In addition, Greg continues to work with a range of practitioners, aiding them in the evaluation of their training and match data, in an attempt to help inform future practice. Beyond this, Greg work’s with colleagues on the Sports Coaching programme to develop research that seeks to improve our understanding of the contextual realities of applied sports science & coaching.

• Reliability of heart rate responses both during and following a 6 min Yo-Yo IR1 test, in highly trained youth soccer players.
• Assessing differences in cardio-respiratory fitness with respect to maturity status in highly trained youth soccer players
• Between-game variation of physical soccer performance measures in highly trained youth soccer players
• Influence of oxygen uptake kinetics on physical performance in youth soccer
• Exercise-induced muscle damage from bench press exercise impairs arm cranking endurance performance