Mr Mark Waldron
Lecturer, School of Science and Technology
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) MSc (Dist)
Contact
| Email: | mwaldro4@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Centre for Water Policy (C21) 5 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3344 (or +61 2 6773 3344 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3267 |
Mark Waldron is a member of the lecturing staff in Exercise and Sport Science at UNE. Mark completed both his BSc and MSc in Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Chester (UK) and is near to completing his PhD. Mark’s specialist teaching areas are exercise and sports physiology, strength and conditioning and performance analysis. Mark has previously worked as a sport scientist in professional rugby league (UK) and international endurance cycling. Mark has published in the areas of elite team sports performance, including fatigue and pacing in sport and the reliability of field-based measurement devices. His PhD research was concerned with monitoring longitudinal growth and performance changes among youth rugby league players. Mark has also identified many characteristics that underpin talented performance in both youth rugby league and soccer during adolescence. His future research, will investigate the area of fatigue and pacing in sport and efficacy of conditioning programs among both junior and senior athletes. He also intends to extend his research in fatigue and pacing to the rural working community of the New England region.
Affiliations
Member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES)
Member of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS)
Areas of Teaching
Mark Lectures on:
Physiology of Exercise I (EXSC240)
Physiology of Exercise II (EXSC340)
Exercise Prescription (EXSC350)
Research interests
Fatigue and pacing in sport
Talent identification and development in sport
Measurement issues in sport
Selected Publications
Waldron M., Highton J. and Twist C., The reliability of a rugby league movement simulation protocol (RLMSP-i) of interchanged players, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, in press, 2012.
Waldron M., Highton J., Daniels M. and Twist C., Preliminary evidence of transient fatigue and pacing during interchanges in rugby league, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. In press, 2012.
Twist C., Waldron M., Highton J. and Burt D., Neuromuscular, biochemical and perceptual post-match fatigue in professional rugby league forwards and backs, Journal of Sports Sciences, 30, 359-367, 2012.
Waldron M., Worsfold P., Twist C. and Lamb K.L., The reliability of tests for sport-specific skill amongst elite youth rugby league players, European Journal of Sports Science, Published ahead of print, DOI:10.1080/17461391.2012.714405, 2012.
Waldron M., Twist C., Highton J., Worsfold P. and Daniels M., Movement and physiological match demands of elite rugby league using portable Global Positioning Systems, Journal of Sports Sciences, 29, 1223-1230, 2011.
Waldron M., Worsfold P., Twist C. and Lamb K., Concurrent validity and test re-test reliability of a Global Positioning System (GPS) and timing gates to assess sprint performance variables, Journal of Sports Sciences, 29, 1613-1619, 2011.
Waldron M., Worsfold P., Twist C. and Lamb K., Predicting 30 m timing gate speed from a 5 Hz Global Positioning System (GPS) device, International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 11, 575-582, 2011.
Waldron M., Worsfold P.R., White C. and Murray S., Swarming behaviour in elite race bunch cycling: a case study, International Journal of Performance Analysis of Sport, 11(1), 14-25, 2011.
Waldron M. and Worsfold P.R., Differences in the game specific skills of elite and sub-elite youth football players: Implications for talent identification, International Journal of Performance Analysis of Sport 10(1), 9-24, 2010.
Conference Presentations
Waldron M., Twist C., Daniels M. and Worsfold P.R., Match demands, heart rate and perceptual responses of elite rugby league players during competitive matches: a case study, Proceedings from British Association of Sports & Exercise Sciences Annual Conference 2010. S67. 2010.
Waldron M., Twist C., Worsfold P. and Lamb K., Movement, physiological and technical demands of elite youth rugby league and the relationship to closed performance and anthropometry, Proceedings from British Association of Sports & Exercise Sciences Annual Conference 2011, 29, Supplement 2, S28, 2011.
Twist C., Burt D., Highton J., Waldron M. and Daniels M., A position-related analysis of post-game fatigue responses in elite rugby league players, Proceedings from British Association of Sports & Exercise Sciences Annual Conference 2011, 29, Supplement 2, S25, 2011.
Waldron M., Worsfold P., Twist C. and Lamb, K., Predicting 30 m timing gate speed from a 5 Hz Global Positioning System (GPS) device, Proceedings from British Association of Sports & Exercise Sciences Annual Student Conference 2011, 12-13th April (University of Chester), 2011.
Waldron M. Twist C., Worsfold P. and Lamb K., A longitudinal assessment of growth and performance in selected and unselected youth rugby league players, Proceedings from European Congress of Sports Sciences Annual Conference 2012, 4th-7th July (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 2012.
Highton J., Waldron M. and Twist C., Pacing in elite rugby league relative to interchange players, Proceedings from European Congress of Sports Sciences Annual Conference 2012, 4th-7th July (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 2012.