Question: What makes you unique?

LauraAnne Furlong answered on 14 Nov 2016:

In terms of this event, I am the only one who works in the area of sport science called biomechanics. We all will have done some common subjects in our undergraduate degrees, so I did a lot of physiology and psychology when I was a student, but I now specialise in understanding how and why people move. The techniques I use are very different to everyone else, and I perhaps work more closely with biomedical engineers than the others (but I can’t be sure as I don’t know everything everyone else does!).

The research I do here at Loughborough is quite unique because of the different techniques I have learnt to measure things and to analyse my data, and I combine it it in a way no other researchers do in the UK or worldwide, so I hope to be able to provide more detailed answers as to how and why people walk and run like they do.