Professorial Inaugural Lecture - Professor Susan Backhouse

Susan Backhouse has hosted her professorial inaugural lecture as Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Nutrition at Leeds Beckett University, where she highlighted the need for greater human and financial resource to help prevent doping in sport.

The lecture, From Anti-Doping to Clean Sport: Critical Reflections on a Changing Research, Policy and Practice Landscape, saw Professor Backhouse examine the limitations of the current detection-deterrence approach for making sport drug free and suggest a focus on preventive, system-based approaches.

Susan Backhouse is Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Nutrition and Head of the Centre for Sports Performance in the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University. She is a British Psychological Society Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and a Health and Care Professions Council Practitioner Psychologist.

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