Lecturer Sport and Exercise Sciences

Contact Details

Office: Bryant 1111
Tel No: +44(0)845 196 5038 or +44(0)1223 695038
Email: matthew.timmis@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications

PhD

Personal profile

Dr Matthew Timmis gained his Bachelors degree in Sports Science and Football Coaching from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in 2007. Upon graduating from LJMU, Matthew progressed directly into his PhD which was undertaken at the University of Bradford. Matthew's PhD investigated the role that vision plays in regulating step descent landing control. Matthew completed his PhD in 2010 and moved to Anglia Ruskin to begin working as a post-doctoral researcher within the Vision & Eye Research Unit (VERU). Over the last year, Matthew was involved as an hourly paid lecturer with the Sport and Exercise Sciences team and took up a permanent role in the department in September 2012.

Research interests

Matthew's main research interests are in the area of movement control and visual search:

1. Investigating the role that vision/visual impairment has upon regulating movements which are undertaken daily i.e. walking and negotiating stairs

2. Investigating visual search strategies in sports performers and how these patterns change as a function of task demand

Publications

Timmis MA and Pardhan S. (2012) Patients with central visual field loss adopt a cautious gait strategy during tasks which present a high risk of falling, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 53(7):4120-9. do:10.1167/iovs.12-9897

Timmis MA and Pardhan S. (2012). The effect of central visual impairment on manual prehension when tasked with transporting-to-place an object accurately to a new location. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 53 (6), 2812-2822. doi: 10.1167/iovs.11-8860.

Timmis MA and Buckley JG. (2012). Obstacle crossing during locomotion: Visual exproprioceptive information is used in an online mode to update foot placement before the obstacle but not swing trajectory over it. Gait and Posture, doi:10.1016/ j.gaitpost.2012.02.008.

Buckley JG, Timmis MA, Scally A and Elliott DB. (2011). When is visual information used to control locomotion when descending a kerb? PloS One, 6(4), 1-8.

Timmis MA, Johnson L, Elliott DB and Buckley JG. (2010). Use of single-vision distance spectacles improves landing control during step descent in well-adapted multifocal lens-wearers, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51(8), 3903-3908.

Timmis MA, Bennett SJ, and Buckley JG. (2009). Visuomotor control of step descent: evidence of specialised role of the lower visual field, Experimental Brain Research, 195(2), 219-227.

Hayes SJ, Timmis MA and Bennett SJ. (2009). Eye movements are not a prerequisite for learning movement sequence timing through observation, Acta Psychologica, 131(3), 202-208.