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Colin Doherty
Colin Doherty
Availability
Colin is available Tuesdays via videoconferencing (online only) 3:00-7:00pm
Training areas
Colin provides support from his own experience with:
- Survey design (Qualtrics)
- Referencing (Mendeley)
- Visual content creation (videos, graphics, presentations, posters, etc.)
Colin also offers support in the following areas:
- Presentations
- Proposal writing
- Participant recruitment
- General IT troubleshooting
- MS office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Panopto recording, editing and uploading
- Time management (google calendar, tasks and notes)
- Confirmation of candidature (Riskware, RIPL, REMS, GRIP, MyPlan, Turnitin)
Research area
Colin is a PhD candidate investigating safety and performance in combat sports (MMA, Muay Thai and boxing), at the School of Medical and Health Sciences. The safety aspect investigates unique research questions on competition injury, eating habits and hydration testing, whereas the performance arm evaluates weight-cutting and its effect on competition outcomes. His project is funded by the Western Australia Combat Sport Commission, and the overarching goal is to identify health and safety opportunities for the commission, while also furthering the understanding of injury and weight-cutting in combat sports.
Background
Colin is an international student from Ireland who completed the first 7 months of his PhD online from Copenhagen Denmark (thanks, COVID). Before embarking on his PhD journey, he completed a BSc in Food Science and Health at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and a MSc (Human Nutrition) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. His master thesis focused on examining the effect of creatine monohydrate on exercise performance in recreationally active vegan/vegetarian athletes. During his time in Denmark Colin also completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Performance Nutrition (online practice-focused professional education program in sport and exercise nutrition) from the Institute of Performance Nutrition in London. This included a series of practical case studies on designing nutrition interventions for ultra-marathons to team sport soccer athletes. Collectively, these experiences have provided Colin with unique knowledge and skills that he hopes to share in his peer advisor role. Outside of PhD research Colin spends most of his time training a grappling based combat sport called Brazilian jiu-jitsu.