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BASES publishes one Editor's Choice article from each issue of The Sport and Exercise Scientist. Click on the links below to view articles. Every edition of The Sport and Exercise Scientist is available for members to download from the Members' Area. We are pleased to launch the new digital format of TSES. To celebrate this, we have made the Spring issue 2024 open access to all. View the Spring Issue here.

Issue 81 Autumn 2024

• Editor's Choice: Teaching data skills to pay the bills

• The BASES Expert Statement on the role of prescribed exercise for promoting physical and cognitive health for people living with down syndrome

• Final Word with Prof Alun Williams FBASES

Issue 80 Summer 2024

• Editor's Choice: Towards sport and exercise science education informed by sociology
• The BASES Expert Statement on use of accelerometer data to measure and interpret free-living physical activity
• Final Word with Prof Lynne Boddy FBASES

Issue 79 Spring 2024

This issue of the TSES publication is open access to all, please see here

• Editor's Choice: Supporting Muslim Athletes in Ramadan
• The BASES Expert Statement on Targeted Treatment of Patellofemoral Pain
• Final Word with Prof Barry Drust FBASES

Issue 78 Winter 2023

• Editor's Choice: The challenge of knowledge translation: some personal reflections on the process of putting science into practice
• The BASES Expert Statement on the relationship between executive functions and sport and exercise
• Final Word with Prof Nanette Mutrie FBASES

Issue 77 Autumn 2023

• Editor's Choice: The effect of exercise on vascular function in adolescents
• The BASES Expert Statement on Physical Activity and Limiting Sedentary Behaviour for Effective Management of Sarcopenia in Community-dwelling Older Adults
• Final Word with Dr Andrew Mitchell

Issue 76 Summer 2023

• Editor's Choice: ICOACHKIDS+ What makes a holistic talent development environment? Exploring the Why, the What and the How
• The BASES Expert Statement on Methods to monitor athletes' sleep
• Final Word with Dr Laurence Birdsey

Issue 75 Spring 2023

• Editor's Choice: Active learning - Tools for overcoming Biomechanics anxiety
• The BASES Expert Statement on Integrity in the Sport and Exercise Sciences
• Final Word with Prof. Stuart Fairclough FBASES

Issue 74 Winter 2022

• Editor's Choice: Real World - Insights from a decade of scientific support within professional boxing
• A Bump in the Road? The BASES Expert Statement on Pregnant and Postnatal Athletes
• Final Word with Dr Emma Kavanagh FBASES

Issue 73 Autumn 2022

• Editor's Choice: #RefugeesWelcome: Sport as a vehicle for change
• The BASES Expert Statement on Disability and Creating an Empowering Environment for Disabled People to Flourish
• Final Word with Dr Lindsay Bottoms FBASES

Issue 72 Summer 2022

• Editor's Choice: A career in sport and exercise science
• The BASES Expert Statement on optimising protein intake recommendations for skeletal muscle mass in older adults to support healthy ageing
• Final Word with Dr Ibrahim Akubat FBASES

Issue 71 Spring 2022

• Editor's Choice: Real World - Lifting the lid on performance staff salaries
• The BASES Expert Statement on protein recommendations for athletes: amount, type and timing
• Final Word with Dr. Shaun McLaren

Issue 70 Winter 2021

• Editor's Choice: Student retention in Higher Education (HE). Time for a rethink?
• The BASES Expert Statement on the use of cooling therapies for post exercise recovery
• Final Word with Dr. Mike Price FBASES

Issue 69 Autumn 2021

• Editor's Choice: Real World - A stitch in time saves nine: the importance of biological maturation for talented athlete development
• The BASES Expert Statement on psychological considerations for injury risk reduction in competitive sport
• Final Word with Professor Sue Backhouse FBASES

Issue 68 Summer 2021

• Editor's Choice: Real World - Training load and injury: speculation is not knowledge
• The BASES Expert Statement on Eligibility for Sex Categories in Sport: DSD Athletes
• The BASES Expert Statement on Eligibility for Sex Categories in Sport: Trans Athletes
• Final Word with Dr Kotryna Fraser

Issue 67 Spring 2021

• Editor's Choice: Thriving as a female in professional sport
• The BASES Expert Statement on Graduated Return to Play Following Covid-19 Infection
• Final Word with Dr Sarah Gilchrist FBASES

Issue 66 Winter 2020

• Editor's Choice: Real World - Performance Data: less is more?
• The BASES Expert Statement on the Importance of Fundamental Movement Skills for Children's Physical Activity and Health
• Final Word with Assoc. Prof Adam Hawkey FBASES

Issue 65 Autumn 2020

• Editor's Choice: Saxton Surmises - Coronavirus diaries: silver linings, challenges and opportunities emerge from the dark clouds
• The BASES Expert Statement on Conducting and Implementing Female Athlete-Based Research
• Final Word with Prof Vicky Tolfrey FBASES

Issue 64 Summer 2020

• Editor's Choice: Time to turn the hierarchy of evidence on its head?
• The BASES Expert Statement on the Role of High-intensity Interval Exercise for Health and Fitness Promotion in Young People
• Final Word with Dr Adam Gledhill FBASES

Issue 63 Spring 2020

• Editor's Choice: Exersize with PACE provokes controversy
• The BASES Expert Statement on the Use of Music for Movement among People with Parkinson's
• BASES Psychology Accreditation Route (SEPAR)
• Final Word with Dr Ailsa Niven FBASES

Issue 62 Winter 2019

• Editor's Choice:  Impact of sport and exercise science education on the UK economy
• The BASES Expert Statement on Extracellular Buffering Agents 
• BASES Annual Report 2018-2019 
• Final Word with Professor Craig Sale 

Issue 61 Autumn 2019

• Editor's Choice: Needed: post-trial access in exercise interventions  
• The BASES Expert Statement on Burnout in Sport
• An interview with Prof Catherine Sabiston, a speaker at BASES Conference 2019

Issue 60 Summer 2019

• Editor's Choice: Is sports science support effective?
• The BASES Expert Statement on Reflective Practice: the Key to Experimental Learning
• BASES Membership Survey results

Issue 59 Spring 2019

• Editor's Choice: Real World: Performance support at the Sport Ireland Institute and Weight stigma and discrimination: considerations for sport and exercise scientists
• The BASES Expert Statement on Mental Health Literacy in Elite Sport
• BASES Conference 2019 - King Power Stadium, Leicester, 19-20 November

Issue 58 Winter 2018

• Editor's Choice: It's no choke: the long-term consequences of choking in sport
• The BASES Expert Statement on The Role of Breakfast-Physical Activity Interactions for Energy Balance and Metabolic Health
• BASES Student Conference  17-18 April 2019 Dundee, Scotland

Issue 57 Autumn 2018

• Editor's Choice: Dehydration and endurance performance: why hasn’t research in this area dried up?
• The BASES Expert Statement on Exercise Training for People with Intermittent Claudication due to Peripheral Arterial Disease
• An interview with Prof Jens Bangsbo, a keynote speaker at BASES Conference 2018

Issue 56 Summer 2018

• Editor's Choice: Qualitative research: Developing rigour
• The BASES Expert Statement on the Process and Outcomes of Developing Exercise Guidelines for Adults with Spinal Cord Injury
• Are you interested in becoming a BASES Division Chair?

Issue 55 Spring 2018

• Editor's Choice: Developing resilience in elite sport: the role of the environment
• FODMAPS:are they a solution to a common problem in elite sport?
• Physical activity and the medical curriculum
• Interview with the new BASES Chair-Elect

Issue 54 Winter 2017

• Editor's Choice: Eating disorders in sport: the last taboo in applied sport psychology?
• BASES Expert Statement on Inadvertent Doping in Sport
• Player monitoring in team sport: have we opened Pandora's box?
• BASES Conference 2018, Harrogate Convention Centre, 27-28 November 2018

Issue 53 Autumn 2017

• Editor's Choice: What advice would you give to your 21-year-old self?
• Ultra endurance exercise: a model to examine the limits of physiological function
• The promise of online interventions: from sports to the dining table
• BASES Expert Statement on Interventions for Improving Performance in the Heat
• BASES-FEPSAC Conference 2017 - Overview and Programme

Issue 52 Summer 2017

• Editor's Choice: Research methods and employability in the sport and exercise sciences - are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
• Exercise and physical activity - the ultimate anti-ageing pill?
• Interview with Tom Holden, BASES new Executive Director
• 'Social' sport as a social science

Issue 51 Spring 2017

• Editor's Choice: What does 'elite' mean in sport and why does it matter?
• Professional doctorates: a better way to deliver doctoral level education to applied practitioners
• Immunity and illness in athletes
• Ability, disability and mobility: an interview with Micky Yule

Issue 50 Winter 2016

• Editor's Choice: Blackcurrant intake: making headway an an ergogenic acid!
• Investigating the benefits of enhancing reflective skills on the practice behaviour of health practitioners
• Re-accreditation - what's changed and why
• BASES Fellowships

Issue 49 Autumn 2016

• Editor's Choice: Tri-ing to bridge the gap between evidence and practise: what do we know, and what do they do?
• Cross-disciplinarity in sport (and) psychology
• The BASES Expert Statement on Safeguarding in the Sport and Exercise Sciences
• The BASES Expert Statement on Fitness, Physical Activity and Exercise after Stroke

Issue 48 Summer 2016

• Editor's Choice: Caveat author: avoid opaque open access journals!
• The BASES Expert Statement on Athletic Recovery Strategies
• BASES Conference 2016
• BASES Applied Practitioner Award

Issue 47 Spring 2016

• Editor's Choice: Exercise medicine in the training of future health care professionals: for tomorrow's patients
• 'Baseline to start line' Physical preparation through the Rio Olympiad
• The BASES Strategic Plan
• BASES Conference 2016 abstract submission guidelines

Issue 46 Winter 2015

• Editor's Choice: 'Baseline to start line' Physical preparation through the Rio Olympiad
• Athena SWAN or ugly duckling?
• BASES Conference 2015 overview
• The BASES Expert Statement on the Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Body Mass Regulation: Individual Variability and Compensatory Responses

Issue 45 Autumn 2015

• Editor's Choice: The intervention is possibly beneficial (and most unlikely harmful) Magnitude-based inference and null-hypothesis significance testing
• Are architects and engineers putting public health at risk?
• The BASES Expert Statement on Aerobic Training for Older and Clinical Groups using Arm Crank Ergometry
• The BASES Expert Statement on Assessment and Management of Non-asthma Related Breathing Problems in Athletes

Issue 44 Summer 2015

• Editor's Choice: Murphy's laws of physical activity and health
• Road to Rio - supporting the whole human being and not just the athlete
• BASES Applied Practitioner of the Year
• Exercise as medicine

Issue 43 Spring 2015

• Editor's Choice: Applied sport psychology: An expert panel discussion
• Animals as a source of inspiration for human athletes
• Fat oxidation during exercise