Sport

National sports organisations, innovation companies, co-located with internationally significant research activity and the UK’s largest concentration of elite athletes.

Expertise

Preventing head injuries in sport

In partnership with the ECB, BSI and leading manufacturers, the University’s Sports Technology Institute is raising the safety standards of cricket helmets to prevent serious and fatal head injuries in cricket and other sports.

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Expertise

Physical activity for spinal cord injuries

In collaboration with partners worldwide, the University’s Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport has launched international exercise guidelines, based on gold-standard practices, for adults with a spinal cord injury (SCI).

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Expertise

Sports Technology Institute

The £15M Institute on LUSEP is home to Loughborough University's Sports Technology Research Group, one of the world's leading research groups of its kind. The Group has established an international reputation for its work with global brands. The Institute houses state-of-the-art equipment and bespoke test rigs.

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Expertise

SportPark

SportPark is a purpose-built development for sports organisations. A major expansion was completed in March 2023 to increase the floorspace by 25%. The £9M Passivhaus development presents sports organisations with the unique opportunity to secure environmentally future-proof accommodation, tailored to their needs.

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Sport

Expertise & specialist facilities

The world’s leading university for sport (Number 1 in the world for sports-related subjects in the QS World University Ranking since 2017), Loughborough’s high-performance environment provides the expertise, facilities and support to enable businesses in the sports sector to achieve excellence.

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Expertise

Loughborough University has led the way in advanced game-relevant laboratory analysis that, in partnership with adidas, has been at the heart of every FIFA World Cup ball for the last 20 years. Startups to global brands have accessed Loughborough’s expertise to drive further product innovations in football as well as other ball sports.

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Expertise

The PING Performance Research Centre launched at LUSEP in July 2022 enables PING engineers and Loughborough researchers to study the mechanics of the golf swing in more detail than ever before as they continue to meticulously develop pioneering equipment that allows golfers to play their best.

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