Social Media Editor
Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Dr Sharief Hendricks is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University (UK). He has over 120 peer-reviewed publications to date and a Google h-index of 33. He has been awarded the prestigious University of Cape Town Fellows Young Researcher Award (2019), a three-time finalist for the TW Kambule-NSTF Researcher Award (2020,2021,2022) (an award for South Africa’s top scientist) and listed on the Mail and Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans (2019). He has also been awarded the European College of Sport Science Fellowship (FECSS) for his significant contribution to the field. He is currently the President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (the first non-physician to hold this position), and Chair of Research and Science for the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee’s (SASCOC). He has acted as a research consultant for  World Rugby, Federation of International Cricketers' Associations, South African Cricketers’ Association, New Zealand Rugby Union, New Zealand Cricketers’ Association, and England National Rugby League and have lead or co-lead multi-national projects for these governing bodies. He is currently an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Sport Science, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus, BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Science and British Journal of Sports Medicine. He has been Social Media Editor for the European Journal of Sport Science for over 10 years.