Date: 28 November 2026 (Saturday)    
Time: 09:00 am – 11:00 am
Assembly Time & Place: 08:50 am at Main entrance of CESAME
(The Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine) located in David C. Lam Building, 
Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University 
(集合時間及地點: 08:50 am 浸會大學, 逸夫校園, 思齊樓, 運動科學與醫學硏究中心正門)
Venue: DLB 110, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Language: English
Participants: 25 maximum (First-come-first-served basis)

Seminar Highlight:
This site visit and seminar will introduce the research capabilities of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences and the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine and Sciences (CESAME) at Hong Kong Baptist University. Visitors will tour several specialist facilities, including the Environmental and Hypoxic Chamber, Biomechanics and Performance Laboratory, Advanced Body Composition (DEXA) Suite, Genomics and Molecular Laboratories, and HKBU's global biobank platform.

Prof. Carl James will provide an overview of HKBU's research examining heat stress, thermoregulation and human performance in challenging environments. Drawing on laboratory and field-based studies conducted across sporting and occupational settings, the seminar will demonstrate how research evidence has informed environmental heat policies, safety regulations and best-practice guidelines adopted by international organisations.

The presentation will also explore emerging wearable technologies and physiological monitoring approaches that can improve understanding of individual heat strain and heat-related risk in occupational settings. These advances provide new opportunities to identify vulnerable workers, quantify environmental risk and develop targeted interventions to enhance health, safety and productivity.

Particular attention will be given to practical pathways through which research and industry can collaborate to address the growing challenges posed by climate change and occupational heat stress, including risk assessment and worker screening, heat adaptation strategies, personal cooling interventions, wearable technologies, and education and training initiatives.

Speaker:
Prof. Carl James (Assistant Professor) is a thermal physiologist whose research focuses on human responses and adaptation to heat stress. Since completing his PhD in 2016, which examined physiological responses to exercise in extreme heat, he has worked across both occupational and sporting environments to improve health, safety and performance in challenging thermal conditions.

His research has included funded projects with UK firefighters aimed at protecting health during live-fire training, alongside applied work supporting medal-winning athletes and international sports teams at the Asian and Commonwealth Games, including Malaysia Squash, Malaysia Hockey, Hong Kong Squash, Hong Kong Cycling, Hong Kong Triathlon, Hong Kong Rowing and Hong Kong Rugby.

Prof. James has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and four textbook chapters on human performance. His work has been featured in major media outlets including RTHK, the South China Morning Post, the BBC, The New York Times and Scientific American. He is an accredited physiologist, supervisor and reviewer with the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES, UK), serves on the CASES Climate Change and Sustainability Expert Committee and Environmental Physiology Steering Group, and is a member of the Sports Medicine and Sports Science Association of Hong Kong, China (HKAMSS).

His current research explores how knowledge developed in athletic populations can be translated to enhance heat resilience, safety and wellbeing in broader populations, including workers and older adults.

Registration:
Please contact Ms Stella Wong at admin@hkosha.org.hk or Ms Daisy Luk at info@hkosha.org.hk for details.