Bond Uni links up with UK’s Loughborough Uni in new partnership
Bond University will boost its high profile in sport achievement and sports research, through a new partnership with Britain’s Loughborough University.
Bond University will boost its high profile in sport achievement and sports research, through a new partnership with Britain’s Loughborough University.
Vice-chancellor Tim Brailsford said a new memorandum of understanding between the two universities linked Bond with Britain’s best university for sport.
Professor Brailsford travelled to Britain this month to sign the agreement which will allow for joint activities in sports and high-performance training, collaboration on research, staff and student exchange, collaborative training and supervision of masters and PhD students.
Bond University gives sport a high priority. The Bond Institute of Health and Sport is a teaching, training and research facility available to high performance athletes and teams, and the university supports high achieving athletes with sports scholarships, bursaries and flexible study programs.
The university also supports a program to train talented swimmers from developing countries, offering its pools and coaching staff to those who don’t have top level swimming facilities in their home countries.
Four Bond University students or former students are in Australia’s Dolphin swimming squad at the Paris Olympics – Jenna Strauch, Elijah Winnington, Ben Armbruster and Flynn Southam. Past swim stars including Grant Hackett, Daniel Kowalski and John Sieben were also Bondies.
Loughborough is recognised for its leadership in sport and houses several of Britain’s national sporting bodies. The university has partnerships with British Athletics, British Swimming, British Triathlon, British Weightlifting, England and Wales Cricket Board, and England Netball.
“Loughborough has been well recognised as the best university for sport in the UK, especially since the expansion of facilities around the London 2012 Olympic Games and it is important for Bond that we continue to connect globally,” Professor Brailsford said.
“In discussions with Loughborough, it has been remarkable how our cultures, aspirations, opportunities and challenges align. We look forward to a long and productive partnership.”
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