By Alan McCall
It’s that time of year again, when we celebrate the fantastic contributions that recently graduated PhD candidates have made to enhancing the knowledge of sports medicine and science. Time flies, and this is now our 3rd BJSM PhD Academy Awards! Our previous winners were James O’Brien, Amy Arundale (Editor’s Pick) and Ryan Timmins and Nick van der Horst (People’s Choice).
To remind you, the PhD Academy Awards initiative launched in the summer of 2016 and requires nominees to submit a summary of their PhD highlighting;
- What did I do?
- Why did I do it?
- What did I find?
- What were the most important clinical/practical applications.
As always we thank all of those submitting their PhD summary for the Academy Awards! We have a great array of PhD’s to choose from.
Here’s a reminder on how the voting works:
Voting
There will be 2 successful PhD summaries: one will be voted for internally by the BJSM Editorial group – ‘The BJSM Editors Choice’ and the second will be voted for by our readers through this BJSM blog – ‘The Peoples’ Choice Award’.
Voting for the Peoples Choice Award will open on Monday, 24th June and close on Monday 8th July at 23:49. Awards will be announced on Wednesday 10th July.
We ask that you consider the novelty/originality of the PhD thesis, the ambitiousness, the robustness of scientific methods and your perceived overall clinical/practical impact.
Prizes
The winner of the ‘Editors’ Choice’ Award will receive registration to the 2020 Football Medicine Strategies Conference in Lyon (October 20th 2020) in addition to a place on the scientific program: http://www.footballmedicinestrategies.com/en/
The‘Peoples’ Choice’ Award winner will be able to choose from a selection of top Sports Medicine/Science books including Brukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine and Bahr and Engebretsen’s International Olympic Committee Sports Injury Prevention handbook.
Nominees:
Below, you will find the list of nominees and a link to their PhD Academy Award manuscript and for some, a video explaining why you should vote for their PhD.
We look forward to celebrating the contributions made by all of the nominees and welcome submissions from the new class of 2019-20.
List of PhD Academy Awards nominees
Karsten Hollander (watch video HERE)
Nirmala Perera (watch video HERE)
Too many rib ticklers? Injuries in Australian women’s cricket (BJSM PhD Academy Award)
Brea Kunstler
Kathryn Lacey O’Connor
Michiel B Winkes
Chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the deep posterior lower leg (BJSM PhD Academy Award)
Michael R Carmont
Alessio Bricca (watch video HERE)
Exercise does not ‘wear down my knee’: systematic reviews and meta-analyses (BJSM PhD Academy Award)
Gijs Helmerhorst
Pain relief after musculoskeletal trauma (BJSM PhD Academy Award)
Rhiannon M J Snipe (watch video HERE)
Sheree Bekker (watch video HERE)
Neil Heron (watch video HERE)
Dimitris Vlachopoulos
The impact of different loading sports and a jumping intervention on bone health in adolescent males: the PRO-BONE study (BJSM PhD Academy Award)
Poll closes this Monday 8th July at 23:59.
Good luck to our nominees!