Rate My Professor Paul Goods

Dr. Paul Goods serves as Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead for Exercise Science in the School of Allied Health at Murdoch University, having joined the institution in 2021 and been promoted to Senior Lecturer in early 2024. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy through an industry-based program with the West Coast Eagles Football Club, investigating the effects of training in simulated altitude environments. Prior to academia, Goods accumulated over ten years in high-performance sport as an applied sports scientist, including roles at the WA Institute of Sport supporting Olympic athletes across two Games cycles, with Hockey Australia's Hockeyroos and Kookaburras for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics—where the Kookaburras secured silver—and with the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Rugby Union, and Fremantle Dockers AFL club. He maintains active involvement with the WAIS High Performance Research Centre, supervising higher degree research students on industry-embedded projects.

Goods specializes in applied sports physiology, with a focus on hypoxic training strategies to optimize athlete health, performance, environmental physiology, team sport demands, and healthy ageing. His publications include 'Maximal Intensity Periods During International Male Field Hockey' (2025), 'Coaches’ insights: Determinants of athlete success, physical demands and training approaches in single-handed Olympic-class dinghy sailing' (2025), 'Living low-training high: Innovative applications and new perspectives on hypoxic interventions for athletes' (2025), 'Physical preparation of the Australian national male field hockey team' (2023), and 'Editorial: Managing physiological and biomechanical load' (2022). In teaching, he led the redevelopment of EXS302 Exercise Physiology II over three years, earning a Citation for Excellence in Learning and Teaching for delivering blended, inclusive education aligned with contemporary research. An Accredited Sports Scientist (ASpS2) and Accredited Exercise Scientist, he was a finalist for the 2025 Accredited Sports Scientist of the Year Award. Goods emphasizes practical learning and research that translates to real-world impacts on athlete pathways and community health.