Tinkering with the Tackle to develop effective injury prevention strategies?
Presented by: Dr. Sharief Hendricks, Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University (UK).
Dr. Hendricks will be talking about our work related to improving tackle training. He will also share a bit of his other work related to science communication, engaged scholarship/social accountability, and the well-being of cricketers.
Dr. Sharief Hendricks is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University (UK). Sharief currently has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and Google h-index of 32. He has been awarded the prestigious University of Cape Town Fellows Young Researcher Award (2019), a three-time finalist for the TW Kambule-NSTF Researcher Award (2020,2021,2022) (an award for South Africa’s top scientist) and listed on the Mail and Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans (2019). He has also been awarded the European College of Sport Science Fellowship (FECSS) for his significant contribution to the field. He is currently the President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (the first non-physician to hold this position), and Chair of Research and Science for the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee’s (SASCOC) and Lead Researcher for the South African Cricketers’ Association. He is currently an Associate Editor for Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus, BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Science, British Journal of Sports Medicine, and has been Social Media Editor for the European Journal of Sport Science for 10 years. Sharief has consulted for World Rugby, Federation of International Cricketers' Associations, New Zealand Rugby Union, New Zealand Cricketers’ Association, and England National Rugby League. He is currently part of two professoriate fellowships – the South Africa Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Future Professors Programme Fellowship and the UCT Next Generation Professoriate Fellowship.
BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit Website: https://www.injuryresearch.bc.ca/
The BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU) is located at BC Children’s Hospital and is a core research program within the Evidence to Innovation theme at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
With the goal to reduce the social and economic burden of injury in BC, the Unit was established as a strategic entity, supporting the development of policies and programs through research, surveillance, and the translation of evidence and knowledge to researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and the public. BCIRPU leaders are members of the faculty at The University of British Columbia, and train and mentor future health care professionals, researchers, policy makers, and injury prevention practitioners.