Steve Haake

Steve Haake
OBE
Born
Stephen John Haake
Alma materUniversity of Leeds (BSc)
Aston University (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine
Parkrun
ThesisApparatus and test methods for measuring the impact of golf balls on turf and their application in the field (1989)
Doctoral advisorAlastair Cochran[1]
Websitestevehaake.com Edit this at Wikidata

Stephen John Haake OBE (/heɪk/ HAYK[2]) is a British sports engineer.[3] He is professor of sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England[4][5][6] and is founding director of the university's advanced wellbeing research centre.

Education

Haake studied physics and the University of Leeds, and went on to do a PhD at Aston University in Birmingham where he was sponsored by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.[1] His thesis investigated methods for measuring the impact of golf balls on turf.[1]

Career and research

Haake worked at the University of Sheffield, building a sports research group there, before moving to Sheffield Hallam in 2006. He founded the journal Sports Engineering, the International Sports Engineering Association and the International Conference on the Engineering of Sport.[7] He served as director of research for the Sheffield section of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine from 2014 to 2016, when he was succeeded by Elizabeth Goyder.[7][4][8]

Haake is chair of the research board of parkrun,[9][10] and has said that "useful fitness exercise might just be a 10-minute walk every day".[11] In 2019 he was appointed chair of Sheffield City Region's Active Travel Advisory Board.[12] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)[13] and has included research on football,[14][15][16] cycling,[17][18] tennis,[19][20] and olympic sports.[21]

Selected publications

  • Haake, Steve (2018). Advantage play : technologies that changed sporting history. Edinburgh: Arena Sport. ISBN 9781909715592.
  • Moritz, Eckehard Fozzy; Haake, Steve, eds. (2006). The engineering of sport: Proceedings of the 2006 biannual conference of the International Sports Engineering Association. New York: Springer. ISBN 0387354603.
  • Haake, S. J.; Coe, Andrew, eds. (2000). Tennis science & technology. Blackwell Science. ISBN 978-0632056385.

Awards and honours

In 2014 the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recognised him as a RISE Leader ("Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers").[22]

In September 2020 he was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific.[9]

Haake was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to sport.[23]

Personal life

As of September 2020 his personal best time for the marathon is 3 h 17 m;[7] in 2015 he completed the Greater Manchester Marathon in 3 h 15 m 19 s but the course was found to have been 380m short for three years, invalidating the times for 2013-2105.[24][25]

References

  1. ^ a b c Haake, Stephen John (1989). Apparatus and test methods for measuring the impact of golf balls on turf and their application in the field. aston.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Aston University. OCLC 53509937. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.328447. Free access icon
  2. ^ "A high jump for science - Professor Steve Haake | The Royal Society". YouTube. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  3. ^ Haake, Steve (2018). Advantage play : technologies that changed sporting history. Edinburgh. ISBN 9781909715592. OCLC 1159789251.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b "Professor Steve Haake: Professor of Sports Engineering". shu.ac.uk. Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  5. ^ Steve Haake publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Moritz, Eckehard Fozzy; Haake, Steve, eds. (2006). The engineering of sport: Proceedings of the 2006 biannual conference of the International Sports Engineering Association. New York: Springer. ISBN 0387354603.
  7. ^ a b c Haake, Steve (2020). "About Steve". stevehaake.com. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Public health champion to lead exercise revolution". UoS Healthcare Gateway. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  9. ^ a b Al-Khalili, Jim (2020). "Steve Haake on technology, sport and health". bbc.co.uk. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  10. ^ Smith, Robert; Schneider, Paul; Bullas, Alice; Haake, Steve; Quirk, Helen; Cosulich, Rami; Goyder, Elizabeth (2020). "Does ethnic density influence community participation in mass participation physical activity events? The case of parkrun in England". Wellcome Open Research. 5: 9. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15657.2. ISSN 2398-502X. PMC 7065574. PMID 32195360.
  11. ^ Bocking, David (31 March 2020). "Sheffield expert hails benefits of just going for a walk". Sheffield Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Dame Sarah Storey appoints expert advisers to improve walking and cycling in the Sheffield City Region". sheffieldcityregion.org.uk. Sheffield City Region. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  13. ^ Anon (2020). "UK government grants awarded to Steve Haake". gtr.ukri.org. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  14. ^ Asai, T.; Carre, M. J.; Akatsuka, T.; Haake, S. J. (2002). "The curve kick of a football I: impact with the foot". Sports Engineering. 5 (4): 183–192. doi:10.1046/j.1460-2687.2002.00108.x. ISSN 1369-7072.
  15. ^ Carre, M. J.; Asai, T.; Akatsuka, T.; Haake, S. J. (2002). "The curve kick of a football II: flight through the air". Sports Engineering. 5 (4): 193–200. doi:10.1046/j.1460-2687.2002.00109.x. ISSN 1369-7072.
  16. ^ Asai, Takeshi; Akatsuka, Takao; Haake, Steve (1998). "The physics of football". Physics World. 11 (6): 25–28. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/11/6/24. ISSN 0953-8585. Closed access icon
  17. ^ Lukes, R. A.; Chin, S. B.; Haake, S. J. (2005). "The understanding and development of cycling aerodynamics". Sports Engineering. 8 (2): 59–74. doi:10.1007/BF02844004. ISSN 1369-7072. S2CID 110168357. Closed access icon
  18. ^ Lukes, Richard Angus (2006). Improving track cycling performance using computational fluid dynamics (PhD thesis). The University of Sheffield. OCLC 1063365960. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.505805.
  19. ^ Haake, S. J.; Chadwick, S. G.; Dignall, R. J.; Goodwill, S.; Rose, P. (2000). "Engineering tennis - slowing the game down". Sports Engineering. 3 (2): 131–143. doi:10.1046/j.1460-2687.2000.00040.x. ISSN 1369-7072.
  20. ^ Goodwill, S.R.; Chin, S.B.; Haake, S.J. (2004). "Aerodynamics of spinning and non-spinning tennis balls". Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 92 (11): 935–958. doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2004.05.004. ISSN 0167-6105. Closed access icon
  21. ^ Haake, Steve J. (2009). "The impact of technology on sporting performance in Olympic sports". Journal of Sports Sciences. 27 (13): 1421–1431. doi:10.1080/02640410903062019. ISSN 0264-0414. PMID 19764001. S2CID 25359052. Closed access icon
  22. ^ "Stephen Haake". epsrc.ukri.org. EPSRC. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  23. ^ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B12.
  24. ^ "Steve Haake". www.racetecresults.com. Greater Manchester Marathon. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  25. ^ "Greater Manchester Marathon course was 380m short, says measuring body". BBC Sport. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2020.


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