Rate My Professor Steve Tidman

Steve Tidman serves as an Associate Lecturer in the Curtin School of Allied Health, part of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. With a BSc (Hons), he specializes in research areas including sports science, motor learning and motor control, biomechanics, athletic performance, 3D motion analysis, and anterior cruciate ligament injuries. His research explores perceptual-motor skills, visual tracking behaviors, injury risk reduction, and differences in visual search strategies among coaches and athletes. Tidman teaches key units in sport and exercise science, such as REHT2001 Motor Learning and HUMB2010 Motor Control, serving as unit coordinator for Motor Learning in Semester 2, 2024. He is involved in the delivery of content on motor control principles, EMG applications in exercise science research, and practical assessments in these courses. Additionally, he contributes to the Exercise and Sport Science Honours Major by supervising projects, including collaborative work with Dr Dale Chapman and Mr Jake Shaw from Claremont Football Club on topics related to velocity-based training concepts.

Tidman's scholarly output includes six publications with a total of 54 citations. Notable works are 'Physiotherapists could detect changes of 12 or more in single-plane movement when observing forward bending, squat or hand-over-head: A cross-sectional experiment' (2022), 'Visual tracking behaviour of two-handed catching in boys with developmental coordination disorder' (2018), 'Reducing ACL injury risk by standing still with zero impact perceptual (ZIP) training!' (2014), 'Visual search behaviour and information extraction differences between high-level and developing swimming coaches' (2014), 'Visual Search Differs But Not Reaction Time When Intercepting a 3D Versus 2D Videoed Opponent' (2013), and 'Development of an integrated 3D stereoscopic system to measure coupled perceptual-motor skill' (2011). Earlier research collaborations were conducted at the University of Western Australia. His verified Google Scholar profile lists research interests in biomechanics, motor control, and learning.