Rate My Professor Joshua Guy

Dr. Joshua Guy serves as Senior Lecturer and Head of Course for Exercise and Sports Sciences within the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences at Central Queensland University’s Cairns campus. Originally from Cairns, Far North Queensland, he commenced his academic journey with a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science with Honours from James Cook University between 2009 and 2012, earning the Academic Medal in 2012. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Sport and Exercise Science at James Cook University from 2013 to 2016, funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship, with his thesis examining the effects of short-term heat acclimation training on endurance performance, immune function, and inflammation. His career includes tutoring and lecturing positions at James Cook University from 2012 to 2015, a lectureship at the University of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, United Kingdom from 2015 to 2016, and his current role at Central Queensland University since 2016. An Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he holds memberships in the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association and the European College of Sport Science.

Guy specializes in thermal physiology and athletic performance in extreme environments, effects of exercise on immune function and inflammation, and strength and conditioning for team sports including football and basketball. With over 600 citations, his key publications include “Impact of active and passive social facilitation on self-paced endurance and sprint exercise: encouragement augments performance and motivation to exercise” (BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2018), “Immune and inflammatory responses of Australian firefighters after repeated exposures to the heat” (Ergonomics, 2015), “Acclimation training improves endurance cycling performance in the heat without inducing endotoxemia” (Frontiers in Physiology, 2016), “Dribble Deficit: A novel method to measure dribbling speed independent of sprinting speed in basketball players” (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2018), “Validity of the PUSH band 2.0 and Speed4lifts to measure velocity during upper and lower body free-weight resistance exercises” (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2022), and “Heat adaptation for females: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physiological adaptations and exercise performance in the heat” (Sports Medicine, 2023). He received the Best Speaker Award at the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science Conference in 2015. Guy coordinates units such as Advanced Exercise Prescription and Delivery and supervises research in sports science.