Mia Preece is a senior lecturer in sport science and therapy with the School of Human Sciences.
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Mia is a senior lecturer in Sports Therapy and holds an MRes Sport and Exercise Science (with Distinction), a BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy (1st class) and a PGCE (with Distinction). Mia has been teaching at London Met since 2017 and also has much experience as a sports therapist treating a wide range of patients including non-athletes, recreational athletes and professional athletes.
For six years Mia was involved in junior ice-hockey as team manager, 1st aider and off-ice fitness coach, and has worked with players teaching power-skating technique (Level 1 coach) and with the special needs ice hockey team teaching skating skills.
Mia has a life-long interest in watching and participating in sport and enjoys figure skating (NISA level 6), road and track cycling and skiing, among other sports.
Research interests:
Sports injuries and rehabilitation/ prevention
Sports Biomechanics
Anatomy
Balance and postural stability
Biomechanics of cycling and related injury
Biomechanics of ice skating and related injury
Preece, M., Grainger, K. and Starrs, P., 2023 'Postural stability in cyclists', Journal of Public Health, pp. 1-10.
Preece M., 2019 'Does Groupwork Work? Benefits and Drawbacks of Groupwork', Investigations in University Teaching and Learning, 12, pp. 77-85.