Rate My Professor Mitch Naughton

Dr. Mitch Naughton serves as Lecturer in Exercise Physiology within the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, part of the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science in 2012 at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Subsequently, he earned a Master of Science by Research in 2016, examining the physiological effects of collisions in contact sport athletes. In 2019, Naughton returned to Australia to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy, completed in 2023 at the same institution, which investigated how locomotor and collision workloads are quantified and their influence on fatigue in the rugby football codes. Prior to his PhD, following his Master's, he worked overseas in applied sports science practice and as a research assistant at the University of Roehampton on externally funded projects exploring the physiological effects of heat and cooling. Naughton has presented research at national and international conferences, published multiple peer-reviewed papers across applied physiology, sports science, performance analysis, and systems thinking/human factors, and maintains ongoing national and international collaborations with applied sports science practitioners and research academics.

Naughton's current research program focuses on understanding and quantifying athlete workloads in team sports, measuring fatigue in complex environments, and applying systems thinking and human factors methods to the field of sport and exercise science. Key publications include the books 'SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS IN SPORT: Practical Guidance and Case Study Applications' (2024) and 'Systems Thinking Methods in Sport: Practical Guidance and Case Study Applications' (2024), both co-authored with colleagues such as McLean, Read, Hulme, and others. Notable journal articles encompass 'Where do we intervene to optimize sports systems? Leverage Points the way' (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2024), 'The influence of external loads on post-match neuromuscular fatigue in international rugby union: A partial least squares correlational analysis' (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2024), 'Challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence implementation within sports science and sports medicine teams' (Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2024), 'Synthetic Data as a Strategy to Resolve Data Privacy and Confidentiality Concerns in the Sport Sciences: Practical Examples and an R Shiny Application' (International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2023), and 'From Anti-doping-I to Anti-doping-II: Toward a paradigm shift for doping prevention in sport' (International Journal of Drug Policy, 2023). His fields of research include sports science and exercise (50%), industrial and organisational psychology including human factors (25%), and exercise physiology (25%). Naughton teaches and coordinates courses such as EXSS2010 Exercise Physiology, EXSS2090 Performance and Data Analysis for Exercise and Sport Science, EXSS3050 Applied Exercise Physiology and Training, and EXSS1050 Fundamentals of Exercise and Sport Science Practice. He is available to supervise Honours, Masters, and PhD students and promotes modern meta-science practices, including open access publishing, pre-registration, and registered reports.