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Mike Hopkinson

Lecturer

Mike is a lecturer in Sport & Exercise Science and Sport Performance courses at Leeds Beckett University and a course leader of the BSc Sports Performance course.

Mike is completing a PhD within tackle injury mechanisms in elite rugby league and is also a performance analyst for the England Korfball national team. He has previously worked as a graduate teaching assistant within Leeds Beckett, a biomechanics research assistant at University of Central Lancashire and a strength and conditioning coach at elite rugby league club. He has a strong interest in performance analysis and is currently utilising video analysis methodology within research to better understand complex events, such as the tackle event in rugby league within his PhD thesis.

Mike has previously presented at the International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport conference in Budapest, Hungary, winning the Routledge young researcher of year award at the conference.

Current Teaching

Sport and Exercise Science course:

Major independent study (BSc & MSc)
Biomechanical Principles of Human Movement
Biomechanical Determinants of Sports Performance
Personal, Professional and Academic Development
Biomechanics of Strength and Injury
Employability in Sport and Exercise Science

Sport Performance course:

Human Movement
Biomechanics and Performance Analysis

Sport and Exercise Therapy course:

Fundamental of Biomechanics for Sports Therapy

Research Interests

Mike has a strong interest in performance analysis and is utilising video analysis methodology within research to better understand complex events, such as the tackle event in rugby league as part of his PhD. However, Mike would like to apply this methodology to other sports and develop research projects in the near future.

0113 81 22055
M.Hopkinson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Fairfax Hall, 108, Headingley

Carnegie School of Sport

Ask Me About

Rehabilitation
Sport
Sports injury

Selected Outputs

Hopkinson M; Nicholson G; Rennie G; Sawczuk T; Owen C; Hendricks S; Fitzpatrick A; Naylor A; Robertson C; Jones B (2023) Are rugby league players involved in more tackles than normal, prior to an injury sustained during a tackle event?. Journal of Sports Sciences, pp. 1-7.

https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2023.2172418
Nicholson G; Bennett T; Thomas A; Pollitt L; Hopkinson M; Crespo R; Robinson T; Price R (2022) Inter-limb asymmetries and kicking limb preference in English Premier League soccer players. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4

https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.982796
Hanley B; Gravestock HJ; Hopkinson M; Paradisis GP; Merlino S; Bissas A (2022) Kinematics of the Final Approach and Take-Off Phases in World-Class Men and Women Pole Vaulters. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4

https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.835659
Hopkinson M; Nicholson G; Hendricks S; Beggs C; Scantlebury S; Jones B (2021) A video analysis framework for the rugby league tackle. Science and Medicine in Football, 6 (1), pp. 15-28.

https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1898667
Hopkinson M; Nicholson G; Weaving D; Hendricks S; Fitzpatrick A; Naylor A; Robertson C; Beggs CB; Jones B (2021) Rugby league ball carrier injuries: The relative importance of tackle characteristics during the European Super League. European Journal of Sport Science

https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2020.1853817