Events Diary

Heat, Activity and the Human Body

Time: Wednesday 26 February 2025, 19:00 - 20:30
Place: The Hut, 47 Fleming Road, Chapel Hill
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Speaker: Ian Stewart, Professor, Queensland University of Technology

With temperatures rising globally, heat stress is an increasingly widespread problem
– especially for people in already hot and humid regions. For people who have to
undertake hard physical work or make critical decisions in such conditions, these
challenges are greatly compounded.
As a researcher interested in environmental physiology and activity, Professor Ian

Stewart has studied the response of the human body to multiple stressors, particu-
larly heat exposure and physical work, for two decades.

In his talk, Ian will outline how the body responds to heat, environmental conditions

that challenge those responses, how different measurements of temperature are as-
sociated with thermoregulation, how heat strain, heat stress and heat illness can af-
flict us, and measures that can help to avoid or mitigate their effects.

General meetings are usually held at The Hut, 47 Fleming Road, Chapel Hill, on the fourth Wednesday of each month from February to November.

The Annual General Meeting is usually in April, at the start of the April general meeting, with the April talk immediately afterwards.

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