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Working with a highly reputable corporate leader helps managers get promoted to senior positions in the short term, but such a career boost is balanced in the longer-term as competitive job markets, including professional sports, punish those managers who initially benefited.

Centre of the Cell opened its doors to a group of young Londoners to run a full day of game development activities.

Sussex American football coach picks up tips in America The head coach of the American football club at Sussex wanted to learn more about the sport to help his team improve.

On 24 April 2015, QMUL's Centre for Commercial Law Studies convened a group of legal experts to consider and examine issues around gaming an intellectual property law.

A squad of academy players from Liverpool Football Club will be getting a taste of University life later this month when they visit the University of Warwick's Politics and International Studies Department (PAIS).

Government plans to increase participation in rugby within schools fail to take into account data on the serious levels of school rugby-related injury and are happening in the absence of systems for

Sussex wins Varsity for second year running Sussex students retained the Varsity sports cup against local rivals Brighton this weekend, to the delight of a packed home crowd of supporters.

Sussex athletes all set for Stanmer Park The training is almost over and nearly 40 University of Sussex runners are set to race at a national student athletics championships in Stanmer Park tomorrow (31 January).

Stroke survivors can have "significant" improvement in arm movements after using the Nintendo Wii as physiotherapy according to researchers.

The Football Fans in Training (FFIT) programme - a men-only weight loss and healthy living programme delivered in Scottish professional football clubs - has been acclaimed internationally for its success.

  Three years ago, Dr Luke Piggott made headlines worldwide when his research using anti-cancer agent TRAIL discovered that the drug knocked out the protein c-FLIP, which gives stem cells their drug resistance. At the time, he was balancing life as a PhD student and a professional ice hockey player with the Cardiff Devils.

Seagulls thank Sussex for use of sports facilities Following the opening of Brighton and Hove Albion FC's newtraining academy in Lancing, senior executives from the city's football club have gone on

Academic's signal-boosting app heads to more football stadiums A smartphone app - developed by a University of Sussex academic - that boosts phone signal in big stadiums is heading to more football grounds around the country.

15 Jul 2014 Yesterday, Manchester United announced a 10-year contract with Adidas, making it the club's new kit sponsor for a record-breaking minimum £750m.

Press release issued: 10 July 2014 A new book by Dr Matthew Brown of the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies which presents an alternative history of Latin America is published today.

The University of Nottingham will be well represented at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, with six current and former students selected to compete for their national teams.

Why fear brought down England at the World Cup, says Sussex psychologist England are out of the World Cup at the group stage for the first time since 1958, but there is nothing new about this failing to live up to their billing.

18 Jun 2014 University of Manchester student Seren Bundy-Davies is competing in the European Team Championships in Germany this weekend.

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Film and Cultural Sociology graduate Andrew Whitelaw is hitting the big time in Singapore presenting and producing for the newly established internet radio station Red Card Sports Radio — the f

A database of statues commemorating football's heroes around the world has been compiled by researchers from the University of Sheffield.

The notoriously short fuses of some sports coaches could be explained by excessive concern with how they will be seen by others, according to new research.

Sussex women's football team win league after winning every game The University of Sussex's women's 1st football team have won their league after winning every game this season.

21 Feb 2014 Manchester City and England footballer James Milner visited laboratories at The University of Manchester this week to present a £25,000 cheque for a life-saving research study into childhood leukaemia.

The Lancet : A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial BMC Public Health: Do weight management programmes delivered at professional football clubs attract and engage high risk men?

Over £5 million has been awarded to an eleven strong consortium, led by the University of Glasgow, to develop and evaluate a European wide programme to help male football fans become more active, less sedentary and improve their diets in a sustainable way.

A business which specialises in arranging overseas sporting programmes for gap year students is going from strength to strength at the University of Nottingham's Innovation Park.

Changing coaches' behaviour to give children a more positive experience of playing sport has been found to change children's intentions to drop out of sporting activity, according to sports scientist

Help to kick homophobia out of football by heading to The University of Nottingham for its annual Football v Homophobia tournament on Saturday 7 September.

Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL). The researchers recruited 72 volunteers and measured their 'cognitive flexibility' described as a person's ability to adapt and switch between tasks, and think about multiple ideas at a given time to solve problems.

Sussex researcher awarded ESRC grant to study disease, injury and new medical treatments in elite sport Dr Alex Faulkner of the Centre for Global Health Policy, School of Global Studies has been awar