Director of Exercise and Sports Science: Ken is the Director
of Exercise and Sports Science in the School of Medical and Health Sciences.
Background
- May
1995:
Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Science), Yokohama City University Medical
School,
- Yokohama, Japan
- March
1983:
Master of Education (Exercise Science and Physical Education), Tokyo
Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan
- March
1981:
Bachelor of Education (Physical Education), Tokyo Gakugei University,
Tokyo, Japan
- June
2016 – Present: Director of Exercise and Sports Science, School of Medical
and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
- January
2016 – Present: Professor, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith
Cowan University
- December
2008 – December 2015: Professor, School of Exercise and Health Sciences,
Edith Cowan University, Postgraduate Course Coordinator for Exercise and
Sports Science (2007 – 2014), Research Degree Coordinator of School of
Exercise and Health Sciences (2012 – 2015)
- December 2008 – February 2013:
Director of Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research (CESSR), Edith
Cowan University
- April
2004 – November 2008: Associate Professor, School of Exercise, Biomedical
and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
- April
2001 – March 2004: Associate Professor, Exercise and Sports Science,
Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama,
Japan
- April
2000 – March 2001: Visiting researcher, School of Biomedical and Sports
Science, Edith Cowan University
- April
1997 – March 2001: Associate Professor, Exercise and Sports Science,
Department of Environmental Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama,
Japan
- April
1995 – March 1997: Lecturer, Exercise and Sports Science, Department of
Environmental Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
- October
1984 – March 1995: Assistant, Institute of Sports Medicine, Department
of Liberal Arts, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
- March
1989 – March 1991: Visiting Researcher, Department of Exercise Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Professional Associations
- European College of Sport Science
- American College of Sports Medicine
- American Physiological Society
Awards and Recognition
- 2008 – Vice-Chancellor’s Award “Excellence in Research Supervision”
- 2008 – ECU Faculty of Computing, Health and Science Executive Dean’s Award
- 2012 – Vice-Chancellor’s Award “Excellence in Research”
- 2013 – Most highly-cited researcher over the past five years
- 2014 – Most highly-cited researcher over the past five years
Research Areas and Interests
- Mechanisms of muscle pain induced after exercise
- Characteristics of muscle damage induced by eccentric exercise
- The repeated bout effect that attenuates the magnitude of muscle damage induced by single eccentric exercise bout
- Effects of eccentric exercise training on health and disease prevention
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Effects of exercise on health, fitness and anti-ageing