ProfRob Duffield

Director, Higher Degree Research Students

Faculty Management

  • Director, Higher Degree Research Students
    Faculty Management

FUNDED RESEARCH

Research expertise:

Sports science (performance, fatigue, recovery and injury)

Exercise for health (exercise, glucose regulation, chronic systemic inflammation)

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Improving health, safety and performance of footballers playing in the heat.
    DAAD Germany1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Fullagar H,
    • Skorski S,
    • aus der Fünten K,
    • Brown G
    UA DAAD - (DAAD ID number: 57700881)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Measurement, Prescription and Consequence of Tennis Load in Emerging Elite Tennis Players
    Tennis Australia Limited16 Oct 2023 - 15 Apr 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R
    Tennis Australia
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Devices, data and databases; objective coaching insights from wearable technology in Tennis
    Tennis Australia Limited3 Jan 2022 - 8 Mar 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R
    Tennis Australia
  • GRANT
    Load, fatigue and recovery of National Team football players
    Football Australia Limited22 Mar 2021 - 3 Feb 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Brown G
    Football Australia Limited
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Travel demands, performance and recovery in national team football players
    Football Australia Limited22 Mar 2021 - 1 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Clements E
    Football Australia Limited
  • GRANT
    Innovative exergame program to increase physical activity for pregnant women with obesity
    Maridulu Budyari Gumal - The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE)1 Mar 2021 - 1 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    SPHERE Maternal, Newborn and Women’s Clinical Academic Group (CAG) – Translational research projects
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Evaluation and implementation of sleep and nutrition strategies in elite rugby league players- Scholarship for Alice Sharples
    SOUTH SYDNEY DISTRICT RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED4 Feb 2021 - 3 Mar 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club Limited
  • GRANT
    The use of wearable technologies to explore the impact of hospital birth room configuration upon mobility in childbirth for women with complex pregnancies
    University of Technology Sydney1 Aug 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    UTS Collaboration
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Multi-Sensored Player Loads in Tennis
    Tennis Australia Limited7 Jul 2018 - 6 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Perri T
    Tennis Australia
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Multiple-matches in a day in junior high-performance tennis players.
    Tennis Australia Limited1 Apr 2017 - 30 Jun 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Maraga N
    Tennis Australia
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    The long-term competition and physical development of successful tennis players
    Tennis Australia Limited26 Aug 2016 - 26 Feb 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R
    Tennis Australia
  • GRANT
    Factors contributing to injury risk in elite medium-fast cricket bowlers.
    University of Technology Sydney4 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    UTS ECR Research Capabilities Development Initiative
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    PhD Scholarship Agreement - Matt Smith: Tennis Australia and UTS -
    Tennis Australia Limited14 Jul 2015 - 30 Apr 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R,
    • Smith M
    Tennis Australia PhD scholarship agreement, Tennis Australia, Matt Smith
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Perceptions of recovery in professional Rugby League athletes
    Manly Sea Eagles2 Mar 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    Manly Sea Eagles Funds Sports science; team sport; fatigue; performance
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Factors Affecting Performance in Professional Rugby League Referees
    National Rugby League Limited1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    National Rugby League Limited performance analysis, decision making, officials, rugby league
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Effects of compression garments on performance, muscle damage, stress and fatigue in Industrial Athlete
    Pacific Brands Workwear Group Pty Ltd1 Sep 2013 - 1 Sep 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duffield R
    Pacific Brands Workwear Group Pty Ltd