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Professor Kevin Norton

Position: Professor of Exercise Science Professor Kevin Norton
Division/Portfolio: Division of Health Sciences
School/Unit: School of Health Sciences
Group: SIHR HLS
Campus: City East Campus
Office: P6-10
Telephone: +61 8 830 21503
Fax:
Email: Kevin_dot_Norton_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kevin.Norton


I am a Professor of Exercise Science in the School of Health Sciences. My current research and teaching interests include exercise-induced changes to health risk factors, interventions to increase physical activity among adults, and limits to human performance in sport.


Teaching interests

  • Physiology of exercise
  • Anthropometry of sports performance, health, and secular trends
  • Game analysis for field-based sports including evolution of sports

I teach the following courses

HLTH 3018Applied Exercise Physiology


Professional associations

Sports Medicine Australia [SMA]

American College of Sports Medicine [ACSM]

Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Science [AAESS]

Fitness Australia [FA]


Qualifications

BEd(PE)Hons Flinders University of South Australia 1981

MA Flinders University of South Australia 1984

PhD The University of Georgia 1989

FACSM 1993

AEP 2007


Research interests

  • AFL football research on injury development and fitness conditioning
  • Intervention strategies to promote physical activity
  • Pre-exercise screening and risk factor assessment
  • Exercise physiology
  • Anthropometry and sports performance

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Exercise Science

  • Sports Physiology
  • Research areas outlined above




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