Dr Ben Oliver

Dr Ben Oliver

Lecturer in Sport Rehabilitation

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Qualifications

  • BSc (University of Central Lancashire)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Salford)
  • PCAP (University of Hull)

Summary

Ben is our Programme Director. He joined the University of Hull in September 2020 after completing his PhD at the University of Salford. His thesis was titled "The role of infrared thermal imaging in the assessment of chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy". Ben is a Fellow of Advance HE.

Ben has extensive industry experience, having worked in professional and semi-professional rugby union for over a decade, as well as other sports. He utilises this experience by teaching on some of our clinical modules. Ben is also a level 3 Pre-Hospital Immediate Care in Sport practitioner and is an instructor in pre-hospital care for the RFU. Ben was integral in setting up the student-led HIP-Hub clinic and has successfully managed to create graduate employment opportunities as part of this.

Ben is currently supervising both PhD and Master's level students, with projects focusing on neurocognition and performance as well as concussion and pitchside extrication of athletes with suspected neck injuries, in conjunction with World Rugby.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Optimisation of the preparation phase for orthopaedic surgery: Study protocol for a student-led multimodal prehabilitation feasibility trial (BoneFit)

Ingle, L., Snook, J., Smith, L., Oliver, B., Bray, J., Wells, L., Moorhouse, J., Dixon, L., Simpson, P., Osman, S., Saxton, J., Rajendran, A., Gopalakrishnan, G., & Symes, T. (2025). Optimisation of the preparation phase for orthopaedic surgery: Study protocol for a student-led multimodal prehabilitation feasibility trial (BoneFit). PLoS ONE, 20(2 February), Article e0314680. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314680

A comparison of the knowledge and attitudes of concussion within higher and lower leagues of the community rugby union game

Oliver, B., Ashton, J., Welsby, G., & Simpson, A. (2022). A comparison of the knowledge and attitudes of concussion within higher and lower leagues of the community rugby union game. Physical Therapy in Sport, 58, 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2022.10.009

Research interests

Achilles tendon, tendinopathy, infrared thermal imaging, exercise-based rehabilitation

Co-investigator

Project

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Project

HEIF: Towards understanding the influence of orthotics on biomechanics in the pathological foot and ankle: a healthy control cohort study

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£6,413.00

Started

2 January 2023

Status

Complete

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