Headfirst: A Concussion Podcast

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Media, Concussion and the Culture of Sport with Dr Keith Parry

2026-10-2749:29

Send us Fan Mail Dr Parry is a Principal Academic at Bournemouth University and formerly led the Concussion Legacy Foundation’s UK Media Project. An award-winning writer and educator, he is also a recipient of a UN Day Media Award. His research explores how the media shapes our understanding of sport, from masculinity and rugby culture to the language we use around head injuries. Today, we’ll explore why the words we use to talk about concussion matter, how the media shapes public attitudes, ...

Heading for Trouble: Football’s Head Impact Crisis – And How We Save the Game with Dr Kevin Moore

2026-10-2053:12

Send us Fan Mail Dr Moore is the founding Director of England’s National Football Museum, which he built from the ground up over more than twenty years, bringing together world-class collections, including the FIFA Collection. He opened the museum in Preston in 2001 before relocating it to Manchester in 2012, where it attracted over half a million visitors annually. He has advised sports museums internationally and written extensively on football history and museum culture. His latest book, H...

Concussions, Culture and The Sociology of Sport with Dr Jack Hardwicke

2026-10-1359:09

Send us Fan Mail Dr Hardwicke is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University and a leading UK voice on brain injury in sport. A former competitive cyclist who suffered a brain injury himself, he now works with colleagues on how to better care for former athletes living with neurodegeneration and their families. Through his research and his writing for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and The Conversation, he challenges sport to focus on preventing brain in...

Repetitive Head Impacts, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome with Dr Robert Stern (Re-Release)

2026-10-0601:10:18

Send us Fan Mail Professor Stern is a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. As co-founder of the BU CTE Center and former Director of Clinical Research, he has spent nearly two decades pioneering ways to detect and diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) during life, while uncovering the long-term neurological impact of repetitive head trauma in former athletes. His ground-breaking wo...

Prevalence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at Death in National Football League Players: Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study, 2008-21 with Dr Daniel Daneshvar

2026-09-2933:32

Send us Fan Mail Dr Daneshvar is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Chair of physical medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation, and Co-Director of Sports Concussion at Mass General Brigham, whilst also a long-time collaborator with the Boston University CTE Centre. Lastly, Dr Daneshvar earned the National Neurotrauma Society's 2024 Rising Star Award, whilst publishing more than 100 papers and being cited over 18,000 times by his academic peers. One of those artic...

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