Dr Emily Williams, Course Director

Dr Emily Williams

Course Director

Emily is a Course Director in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, and the Subject Discipline lead for Sport and Exercise Physiology. Her research interests include fatigue and investigating psychophysiological mechanisms of sports performance.

Emily completed her PhD research in Sport Physiology at Edge Hill University. This investigated use of deceptive manipulations and competitors to influence pacing algorithms and performance in cycling time trials. Prior to this, she completed a BSc (Hons) in Applied Sport and Exercise Science from Northumbria University and a MSc degree in Sport and Exercise Physiology at the University of Central Lancashire.

Emily has completed her Postgraduate Certification for Teaching in Higher Education and is currently a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Current Teaching

  • BSc (Hons) Science of Sport Performance
  • BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science

Research Interests

Emily’s research focuses on investigating the complex mechanisms involved in athlete’s pacing strategies and the psychophysiological constructs in cognition during performance. She is interested in mind and body interactions and how humans alter performance when influenced by fatigue. Her interests also expand to the psychophysiological responses to exertion in the heat and the influence environmental stressors have on behaviour and performance.

Dr Emily Williams, Course Director

Selected Outputs

  • Williams EL (In press) Impact of starting strategy on performance and perceptual responses in cycling. Frontiers in Physiology

  • Whitehead AE; Jones HJ; Williams EL; Dowling C; Morley D; Taylor JA; Polman RC (2019) Changes in Cognition over a 16.1 km Cycling Time Trial using Think Aloud Protocol: Preliminary Evidence. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17 (3), pp. 266-274.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2017.1292302

  • Shannon O; Barlow M; Duckworth L; Williams E; Wort G; Woods D; Siervo M; O'Hara JP (2017) Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances short but not longer duration running time-trial performance. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 117 (4), pp. 775-785.

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-017-3580-6

  • Sparks AS; Williams EL; Jones HJ; Bridge CA; Marchant D; McNaughton L (2016) Test-retest reliability of a 16.1 km time trial in trained cyclists using the CompuTrainer ergometer. Journal of Science and Cycling, 5 (3), pp. 35-41.

    http://www.jsc-journal.com/ojs/index.php?journal=JSC&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=272

  • Sparks A; Williams EL; Robinson A; Miller P; Bentley D; Bridge CA; McNaughton L (2016) Sodium bicarbonate ingestion and individual variability in time to peak pH. Research in Sports Medicine, 25 (1), pp. 58-66.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2016.1258645

  • Mosher SL; Sparks SA; Williams EL; Bentley DJ; Mc Naughton LR (2016) Ingestion of a Nitric Oxide Enhancing Supplement Improves Resistance Exercise Performance. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30 (12), pp. 3520-3524.

    https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001437

  • Williams EL; Jones HS; Sparks SA; Marchant DC; Midgley AW; Bridge CA; McNaughton LR (2016) Deceptive Manipulation of Competitive Starting Strategies Influences Subsequent Pacing, Physiological Status, and Perceptual Responses during Cycling Time Trials. Frontiers in Physiology, 7:536

    https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00536

  • Jones HS; Williams EL; Marchant D; Sparks A; Bridge CA; Midgley AW; McNaughton LR (2016) Improvements in Cycling Time Trial Performance Are Not Sustained Following the Acute Provision of Challenging and Deceptive Feedback. Frontiers in Physiology, 7:399

    https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00399

  • Jones HS; Williams EL; Marchant DC; Sparks SA; Bridge CA; Midgley AW; Mc Naughton LR (2015) Deception has no acute or residual effect on cycling time trial performance but negatively effects perceptual responses. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport / Sports Medicine Australia, 19 (9), pp. 771-776.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2015.12.006

  • Williams EL; Jones HS; Sparks SA; Midgley AW; Marchant DC; Bridge CA; McNaughton LR (2015) Altered Psychological Responses to Different Magnitudes of Deception during Cycling. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 47 (11), pp. 2423-2430.

    https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000000694

  • Williams EL; Jones HS; Sparks A; Marchant DC; Midgley AW; Mc Naughton LR (2015) Competitor presence reduces internal attentional focus and improves 16.1km cycling time trial performance. Journal of science and medicine in sport / Sports Medicine Australia, 18 (4), pp. 486-491.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2014.07.003

  • Jones HS; Williams EL; Marchant D; Sparks SA; Midgley AW; Bridge CA; McNaughton L (2014) Distance-dependent association of affect with pacing strategy in cycling time trials. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 47 (4), pp. 825-832.

    https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000000475

  • Williams EL; Jones HS; Sparks S; Marchant DC; Micklewright D; McNaughton LR (2014) Deception studies manipulating centrally acting performance modifiers: a review. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 46 (7), pp. 1441-1451.

    https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000000235

  • Jones H; Williams EL; Bridge CA; Marchant D; Midgley A; Micklewright D; McNaughton L (2013) Physiological and Psychological Effects of Deception on Pacing Strategy and Performance: A Review. Sports Medicine, 43 (12), pp. 1243-1257.

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-013-0094-1