Sport and Exercise Science

Profile

Background

Colin White began his teaching career with the British Army before joining the Physics Department at the University of Portsmouth in 1986 where he taught microwaves and computer programming. In 2000, he joined the Department of Sport and Exercise Science, teaching aspects of mathematics, statistics and computing at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was Course Leader for the Sports Development programme and taught Sport in the Media to the cohort. He has made one television and a number of radio presentations and has directed and produced many hours of video teaching materials in a wide range of cognate areas. In 2007 he became a Principle Lecturer and Learning and Teaching (and elearning) Coordinator for the Faculty of Science before retiring in 2010. He currently holds the post of Visiting Senior Lecturer to the Department of Sport and Exercise Science.

Research Interests

Colin has provided computational, mathematical and modeling support in areas of anthropometry, biomechanical breast motion, sport psychology profiling, VO2max measurements on competitive cyclists and anthropometric positional statistics in a Premiership soccer team. He is especially interested in the flight of sporting projectiles (e.g. hammers, javelins, discus and all types of sports balls). His book 'Projectile Dynamics in Sport - Principles and Applications' is published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in September 2010. Details may be found at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415473316/ .

Colin gave the keynote presentation at The International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching in July 2011.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2008

Hencken, C., White, C. (2004). ‘A Longitudinal Study of Professional Soccer Player Somatotypes’. 9th ECSS Conference, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Funding

ExPERT Centre Secondment. 3 year funding at 2/5 of Principle Lecturer rate.