{"id":63597,"date":"2026-02-24T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/?post_type=case_study&#038;p=63597"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:11:45","slug":"bridie-forges-impressive-career-as-director-of-applied-science-and-integration","status":"publish","type":"case_study","link":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/story\/bridie-forges-impressive-career-as-director-of-applied-science-and-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridie forges impressive career as Director of Applied Science and Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bridie Nanai is a graduate of the MSc Sports Therapy course\u00a0(Class of 2021)\u00a0at University of Gloucestershire\u00a0and has since gone on to\u00a0forge\u00a0an impressive career\u00a0in\u00a0sports injury prevention research. Her work focuses on improving player welfare through evidence-based practice and innovation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Following graduation, Bridie worked as a sports therapist\u00a0before drawing\u00a0on her clinical skill\u00a0set to bridge the gap between medical, performance and engineering teams within elite sport and high-performance environments.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bridie currently holds the\u00a0role\u00a0of Director of Applied Science and Integration at Prevent Biometrics, where she leads the development and global deployment of instrumented mouthguards used to\u00a0monitor\u00a0head impacts in professional sport. Alongside her industry role, she is completing a PhD at the University of Otago, investigating head acceleration and contact loads in rugby union.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bridie\u2019s exciting journey highlights how the MSc Sports Therapy course at University of Gloucestershire equips graduates with the skills,\u00a0adaptability\u00a0and confidence to succeed in innovative, research-led roles beyond traditional clinical practice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bridie\u00a0said:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cUndertaking the MSc in Sports Therapy at University of Gloucestershire allowed me to bridge my existing knowledge of sports science and transition into the sports medicine and injury prevention domain. The program provided key theoretical and practical skills and fundamentally changed the way I approached athlete physiology and management, particularly in the elite sport environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":129000008542,"template":"","tags":[461,459,460,437],"cs_subjects":[],"cs_levels_of_Study":[],"schools":[],"class_list":["post-63597","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-athlete","tag-lizzy-yarnold","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study\/63597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case_study"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63597"},{"taxonomy":"cs_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_subjects?post=63597"},{"taxonomy":"cs_levels_of_Study","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_levels_of_Study?post=63597"},{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=63597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}