Professor Bill Bell

Bill Bell
Professor
E-mail address: wbell@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Qualifications
Teaching Certificate(Dist)
Diploma Physical Education(Dist)
MEd
PhD (Physiology)

Academic Leadership
Academic Leadership
Growth and Development
Exercise Physiology
Research and Statistics

Sporting Profile
Association Football
Cross-Country and Road Running

Accreditation
BASES: physiology accreditation
Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University College, London
Department Physiology, Charles University, Czech Republic
International Biological Programme: Member Scandinavian Physiology Team Expedition to Arctic Finland (Lake Inari)

Research Interests
Paediatric Physiology/Growth
Body Composition
Activity and Health

Consultancy
Collaboration with University of Wales College of Medicine and University Hospital of Wales
University of Glamorgan
University of Bangor

Membership of Professional Bodies
American College, Sports Medicine
British Association of Sport and Exercise Science
British Association Sport and Exercise Medicine
European Group of Paediatric Work Physiology
Human Biology Council (USA)
International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry
International Council for Physical Activity and Fitness Research
Society for Study of Human Biology (UK)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Research Profile

Peer reviewed journals 1995-2009
Publication in 2009; Polymorphisms of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE/ID) and their distribution in developing young adult Rugby Union players.
W. Bell, JP Colley, JR Gwynne, L Llewellyn, SE Darlington, WD Evans. In: Contemporary Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics (Edited by T Reilly and G Atkinson, pages 161-173, Routledge 2009).

Selection of peer-reviewed articles 1995-2008

W. Bell , D.M. Cobner (2007) Effect of individual time to peak power output on the expression of peak power output in the 30-s Wingate Anaerobic Test. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 28, 135-139.

W. Bell, J.T. Warner, W.D. Evans, D.K.H. Webb, R.H. Mullen, J.W. Gregory (2006) Perception of effort at low and moderate intensity exercise in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Annals of Human Biology, 33, 357-371.

W. Bell, W.D. Evans, D.M. Cobner, R.G. Eston (2005). The regional placement of bone mineral mass, fat mass, and lean soft tissue mass in young adult Rugby Union players. Ergonomics, 48, 11-14, 1462-1472.

W. Bell, JS Davies, WD Evans, MF Scanlon, R Mullen (2004) Somatic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors in growth hormone deficiency: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effect of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone. American Journal of Human Biology, 16, 533-54.

W. Bell, WD Evans, DM Cobner, RG Eston (2003) Whole-body and regional bone mineral density and bone mineral mass in Rugby Union players: comparison of forwards, backs and controls. In: Kinanthropometry VIII (Eds T. Reilly and Mike Marfell-Jones), pp143-150, Routledge: London & New York.

W Bell, DM Cobner, WD Evans (2002) Prediction and validation of fat-free mass in the lower limbs of young adult Rugby Union players using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry as the criterion measure. In: Advances in Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics (Eds T Reilly and J Greeves), pp303-312, Routledge: London & New York.

R Tong, W Bell, G Ball, E Winter (2001). Reliability of power output measurements during repeated treadmill sprinting in rugby players. Journal Sports Sciences, 19, 289-297.

W Bell, JS Davies, WD Evans, MF Scanlon (2000) Effect of recombinant human growth hormone on regional tissue distribution in growth hormone deficient males. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 904, 576-583.

S Willams, J Goodfellow, B Davies, W Bell, L McDowell, E Jones (2000) Somatotype and angiographically determined atherosclerotic coronary disease in men. American Journal of Human Biology, 12, 128-138.

W Bell, DM Cobner, WD Evans (2000) Prediction and validation of fat-free mass in the lower limbs of young adult Rugby Union players using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry as the criterion measure. Ergonomics, 43, 1708-1717.

W. Bell, JS Davies, WD Evans, MF Scanlon (1999) Strength and its relationship to changes in fat-free mass, total body potassium, total body water and IGF1 in adults with growth hormone deficiency: effect of treatment with growth hormone. Annals of Human Biology, 26, 63-78.

JT Warner, WD Evans, DKH Webb, W Bell, JW Gregory (1999) Relative osteopenia after treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.. Pediatric Research, 45, 544-551.

JT Warner, W. Bell, DKH Webb, JW Gregory (1998) Daily energy expenditure and physical activity in survivors of childhood malignancy. Pediatric Research, 43, 607-613.

W Bell (1997) Fat-free mass in active boys during adolescence. American Journal of Human Biology, 9, 617-627.

S Williams, E Jones, W Bell, B Davies, Bourne MW (1997) Body habitus and coronary heart disease in men. European Heart Journal, 18, 376-393.

J T Warner, WBell, Webb DKH, JW Gregory (1997) Relation between cardiopulmonary response to exercise and adiposity in survivors of childhood malignancy. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 76, 298-303.

W Bell (1997) Aerobic fitness and fat patterning in adolescent boys. In: Children and Exercise (Eds N Armstrong, B Kirby, J Welsman) pp 63-68. London: E & F Spon.

JS Davies, W Bell, WD Evans, RJ Villis, MF Scanlon (1996) Body composition derived from whole-body counting of potassium in growth hormone deficient adults: a possible low intracellular count. Journal Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 81, 1720-1723.

W Bell, JS Davies WD Evans, MF Scanlon (1995) Activity, body composition and lipoprotein concentrations in growth hormone deficient males. In: Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics (Eds G Atkinson , T Reilly), pp 48-53. London: E & FN Spon.

W Bell (1995) The estimation of body density in rugby union football players. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 29, 46-51.

W Bell, JS Davies, WD Evans, MF Scanlon (1995) The validity of estimating total body fat and fat-free mass from skinfold thickness in adults with growth hormone deficiency. Journal Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 80, 630-636.

JS Baker, TK Baker, W Bell (1995) Anaerobic performance and lean leg volume in international Karate fighters. Journal Human Movement Studies, 28, 39-49.