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John_Hough

John Hough

Associate Professor

School of Science & Technology

Role

Dr. Hough is an Associate Professor in Health and Immunology. He a module leader for Clinical Exercise Physiology and has experience in teaching in the areas of clinical exercise physiology; exercise physiology; endocrinology and environmental physiology.

Career overview

Dr. Hough graduated from the University of Stirling with a BSc. (Hons) in Psychology. Following this he completed an MSc. in Exercise Physiology at Loughborough University and remained at Loughborough to complete a part-time PhD while also working as an Exercise Physiology technician. His PhD examined the endocrine responses to endurance training specifically focusing on the use of hormones as biomarkers of training stress. Following a period as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire he moved to Nottingham Trent University to take up a role as a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology and advanced into an Associate Professor role in Health and Immunology. His research at Nottingham Trent University focuses on the endocrine and immune responses to external stressors (e.g. exercise training and mental stress) over the lifecourse and their alterations during recovery.

Research areas

Dr. Hough is a member of the Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Centre.  He currently Co-leads the Ageing Well Through Adulthood Research Theme. Since completing his PhD he has continued to focus on the impact of stress on the endocrine and immune systems. Specifically, his research examines how alterations in energy balance (both high and low from exercise and nutrition) effect human health, with a particular focus on the endocrine and immune systems. Initially, I focused on athletes, studying the effects of over-training (high energy expenditure) on athlete health, with more recent work also studying the health effects of energy balance in the general population to combat obesity (positive energy balance) and ageing (reduced energy expenditure).

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate work exist and further information may be obtained from the NTU Doctoral School.

External activity

Grant reviewer:

The Leverhulme Trust.

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC).

Membership of Professional Bodies:

British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES);

International Society of Exercise and Immunology (ISEI);

European College of Sport Science (ECSS);

The Physiological Society;

Society for Endocrinology;

Fellow of the The Higher Education Academy.

Press expertise

  • Exercise Physiology
  • Exercise training
  • Stress
  • Overtraining
  • Hormones and exercise
  • Immunity
  • Exercise immunology

Course(s) I teach on