Research
Movement Science for Health and Performance (MOVE) Research Group
This research group is led by Dr Sean Hudson
The Movement Science for Health and Performance (MOVE) research group has a broad interest in understanding human movement across health and performance settings.
Our research spans three connected themes:
- Clinical populations: We investigate how movement is altered in clinical populations, including individuals with visual impairments, peripheral arterial disease, obesity, and limb amputations, to understand how movement is affected in these groups and how we can support them.
- Occupational health and performance: We examine how protective equipment and load carriage affect movement, comfort, injury risk, and task performance in occupational settings, including police, military, and fire service.
- Youth and sports performance: We study motor skills and movement ability in various athletic populations, including youth sport.
Across these themes we draw on a range of laboratory and field-based biomechanical techniques and principles to measure and interpret how people move.
Get in touch
We welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students and new members eager to explore movement mechanics within clinical populations, the impacts of protective equipment in occupational settings, or motor skill development and athletic performance in youth and sporting cohorts.
Research activity
Fish, M., Hudson, S., Bader, J., Heitmar, R., & Azevedo, L. B. (2026). The effects of actual and simulated visual impairments on the walking gait: A systematic review. Clinical Biomechanics, 106865.
Hudson, S., Blackburn, J., Fish, M., & Ousey, K. (2026). ‘We just make do’: the use, comfort and functionality of personal protective equipment in the UK mounted police. Ergonomics, 69(2), 336-347.
Wilkie, B., Jordan, A., & Rudd, J. (2026). Measurement and Evaluation of Physical Literacy: A Contested Field. In Routledge Handbook of Physical Literacy (pp. 590-604). Routledge.
Hodgson, P., Jordan, A., Sinani, C., Charura, D., Hodgson, A. & Glandorf, H. L. (2026). Longitudinal dynamics of physical function with anxiety and depression in Parkinson’s disease: a cross-lagged panel analysis of the PPMI dataset. Brain and Behavior, 16(2).
Tew, G., Sharpe, L., Abbas, A., Bond, M., Jordan, A., Ross, H., Hex, N., MacDonald, R. & Thompson, A. (2025). Implementation and evaluation of a supervised exercise programme for people with claudication in York, England. Journal of Vascular Nursing, 43(3), 148–156.
Hodgson, P., Sinani, C., Jordan, A. & Charura, D. (2025). Examining the relationship between physical function and anxiety/depression in Parkinson’s. Brain and Behavior, 15(5), e70563.
Hodgson, P., Jordan, A., Sinani, C., & Charura, D. (2025). The relationship between physical function and psychological symptoms in Parkinson’s: Perceptions of People with Parkinson’s and Carers. PloS one, 20(4), e0310578.
Hudson, S., Ridland, L., Blackburn, J., Monchuk, L., & Ousey, K. (2024). The comfort and functional performance of personal protective equipment for police officers: a systematic scoping review. Ergonomics, 67(10), 1317-1337.
Hudson, S., Barwood, M., Low, C., Wills, J. & Fish, M. (2024). A systematic review of the physiological and biomechanical differences between males and females in response to load carriage during walking activities. Applied Ergonomics, 114, 104123.
Hudson, S., Fish, M., Haines, M., & Harper, L. (2024). Monitoring the physical demands of training in Rugby League: the practices and perceptions of practitioners. Science and Medicine in Football, 8(4), 293-300.
Noblett, H., Hudson, S., Killey, J. & Fish, M. (2023). The physical and physiological match-play demands of national level male field hockey. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 22(2), 273–280.
Group members
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Dr Sean Hudson
Group leader
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Dr Alastair Jordan
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biomechanics
