Professor Tony Turner

Personal Chair of Sports Physiology

Biography

Background

Tony Turner is a Professor of Sports Physiology in the Institute for Sport, Physical Education & Health Sciences (SPEHS), where he previously served as co-Director of Research, Knowledge Exchange & Impact for Moray House School of Education & Sport (2021-2024). He teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes: BSc Applied Sport Science and MSc Strength & Conditioning; with experience as a course organiser, programme director and Exam Board Convenor. Tony is a member of the Human Performance Science research group and Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Centre, with applied experience as a physiologist working with performers in a range of sports, most recently in motor sport with partners ESP in the FIA Rally Star Driver Programme and Young Driver Excellence Academy:

Coaching motorsport stars of the future

Undergraduate teaching

  • BSc Applied Sport Science

Postgraduate teaching

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

  • William Wynter Bee - Considering the health benefit of golf for those with a disability, and understanding illness and health provision in elite and professional golf (and disparities between groups)
  • Daniel Heller - An evidence-informed approach to rally motorsport coach education and development
  • Vanessa Fernandez Vidueira - Chronotypes in Adolescence: The impact of chronotypes on performance in adolescents
  • Hannah Walton - Injuries in women's rugby

Past PhD students supervised

  • Nicholas Lam - Development, validity and reliability of the mental fatigue protocol
  • Xiang (Cam) Zhao - Unilateral resistance training in adolescents
  • Andrew M Murray - Recovery in adolescent athletes
  • Daniel Astridge (MSc R) - Performance and physiological adaptations following altitude training in elite collegiate swimmers; effect of training load, sleep quality and acclimatisation
  • Stephanie Adams - Concussion in motor sport: Exploring experts' perceptions, knowledge and attitudes
  • Jacki Thow - Asymmetries in strength & power related to swimming technique
  • Matthew Pearce - Characterising time outside and physical activity of children using GPS
  • Alice Mooney (MPhil) - Hypermobility Syndromes in Paediatrics: Progressions in Assessment and Management
  • Mark Sanderson - Whole body vibration: Stimulus Characteristics and Acute Neuromuscular Responses
  • Shaun Phillips - Impact of carbohydrate supplementation on intermittent exercise performance in adolescents.
  • Danielle Bryant - Teacher stress, learned optimism and coping strategies
  • Alan MacPherson - Rhythm in Sport

Research summary

The application of physiology in sport & exercise contexts

  • motor sport physiology & performance
  • cardio-respiratory systems’ responses during exercise
  • physiology of strength & conditioning
  • physiology of sports performance
  • concussion

Current and recent research

Tony is a core member of the Human Performance Science Research Group and member of the Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Centre.

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