The Wharton weblog:

A recent phone call has resulted in Sarah Rowell going 'back to school'. The Waveney Community Forum has recently secured a grant from the Department for Children, Schools and Families for an inspiring two-year project for Gifted and Talented students in Years 7 and 8, which is looking to pilot a different approach to teaching science and maths. Having attended one of the schools involved, St Felix School in Southwold, Sarah is going back to act as an advisor to the Forum for the strand which will be looking at science and sport.

BASES - When Wharton's Sarah Rowell first started working at the then National Coaching Foundation in 1989 she was heavily involved in the development of the original BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) accreditation criteria. Twenty years on she is again working with the organisation to revise the accreditation process to ensure that it is compatible with a framework of career length professional development for all sport and exercise scientists, whether working in performance sport, health and exercise or academia.