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Professor Dara Twomey

Emeritus Professor

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Professor Dara Twomey is a biomechanist with a current research focus on sports injury prevention and the link between sport surfaces and injury risk. Dr Twomey has extensive experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of sports injury prevention interventions.

Since leading the development of standards for the use of artificial turf for various sports, Dara’s work now centres on increasing an understanding of player-surface interactions to reduce injury risk, improving the lack of biofidelity of the testing equipment, and extending knowledge of the impact of climatic conditions on participation on different playing surfaces.

Dara has extensive experience working with industry, has chaired national level conferences, and is a regular invited speaker at conferences and symposia. Her outstanding contribution to the industry was recognised when inducted as a Fellow of Sports Medicine Australia in 2019.

  • Publications

Playing Australian football on artificial turf: what do the players think?