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Daniel Snape

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sport and Exercise Physiology within the Centre for Human Performance. He graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science and an MSc in Sport and Exercise Physiology. Following this he undertook a PhD in Exercise Physiology at Leeds Beckett University in collaboration with the English Institute of Sport. Dan's research contributed towards British Triathlons heat acclimation strategy for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The purpose Dan's current role is to design, coordinate and conduct physiology support services to amateur and elite athletes as well as research projects within the Centre for Human Performance at Leeds Beckett University. Also, to deliver projects with existing external partners, as well as developing new opportunities, primarily focusing on endurance performance and environmental physiology.

Current Teaching

Dan teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate provision. Modules include:

Physiology of the Human Body
Physiological Responses to Sport & Exercise
Psychophysiological Responses to Exercise for Performance
Performance in Extreme Environments
Evidence Based Practice in Sports Physiology
Advanced Exercise Physiology

Research Interests

Dan is involved in research related to heat acclimation strategies to improve sports performance in hot and humid environments, working with recreational and elite athletes competing in thermally challenging environments. Dan's research helped to inform British Triathlons heat acclimation strategy for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Dan has collaborated with a researcher from Kings College London (Dr Iain Parsons), with their research exploring the impact of heat acclimation and temperate exercise on orthostatic tolerance and markers of exertional heat illness.

Dan is collaborating with researchers from the Defence Medical Service (DMS) to characterise individual endogenous hormone responses to resistance exercise and load carriage training workouts. One potential strategy being explored is the use of an individual’s endogenous hormone responses to exercise to optimise training workout design and recovery time. Another project Dan is working on is examining the influence of vitamin D status on COVID-19 seroconversion in British Army recruits entering phase one training.

Carnegie School of Sport

Ask Me About

Physiology
Sport science

Selected Outputs

Parsons I; Snape D; Stacey M; Barlow M; O'Hara J; Gall N; Chowienczyk P; Wainwright B; Woods D (2024) Improvements in orthostatic tolerance with exercise are augmented by heat acclimation: a randomised controlled trial. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 56 (4), pp. 644-654.

https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000003355
Ferentinos P; Snape D; Koivula F; Faustini S; Nicholson-Little A; Stacey M; Gifford R; Parsons I; Lamb L; Greeves J (2023) Validation of dried blood spot sampling for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and total immunoglobulins in a large cohort of asymptomatic young adults. Journal of Immunological Methods, 518 pp. 1-6.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jim.2023.113492
Snape D; Wainwright B; Woods DR; O'Hara JP (2022) Reliability of biomarkers of physiological stress at rest and post exertional heat stress. Int J Sports Med

https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1890-0993
Parsons I; Snape D; O'Hara J; Holdsworth D; Stacey M; Gall N; Chowienczyk P; Wainwright B; Woods D (2020) Echocardiographic changes following active heat acclimation. Journal of Thermal Biology, 93 pp. 102705.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102705

Snape D; O'Hara JP; Wainwright B (In press) Reliability of blood biomarkers of physiological stress at rest and in response to exercise under hot humid conditions. In: Future Physiology, 6 July 2020 - 10 July 2020, Virtual Online.
Wainwright B; Snape D; Ispoglou T; Nicholson-Little A; Woods D; Saunders S; O'Hara J (2023) Group and individual endogenous hormone responses to acute resistance exercise and load carriage workouts. In: 6th International Congress on Soldiers' Physical Performance, 12 September 2023 - 14 September 2023, ExCel, London, UK.
Stacey M; Barden A; Snape D; Pitsiladis Y; O'Hara J; Woods D (2023) Neurobiomarker responses to thermal stress with physical activity: prior endurance exercise may confound mTBI diagnosis using UCHL1. In: American physiology summit, 20 April 2023 - 23 April 2023, Long Beach, CA.