Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18418 on Sports: Concussion, who the members of the Sports Concussions Research Forum are; and what terms of reference were set for that forum's formulation of a report to identify priority research questions.

The Sports Concussion Research Forum’s terms of reference are to develop a prioritised list of translatable research aims relating to concussion in sport, to be drawn from both the sports and academic communities, including consideration of such research that may extend beyond sport-specific areas, where appropriate.

The further aim of the Forum is to encourage academic institutions, foundations and other organisations to make concussion in sport one of their priorities and to focus their work in this area around the Forum’s prioritised list of research aims, which is expected to be published in 2024.

The members of the Sports Concussion Research Forum are:

• Dr Robin Buckle (Chair), Chief Scientific Officer, Medical Research Council/UKRI
• Prof Damian Bailey, University of South Wales
• Prof Alan Carson, University of Edinburgh
• Prof Peter Hutchinson, University of Cambridge and National Institute of Health Research
• Prof Elizabeth Jeffries, University of York
• Prof Fiona Lecky, University of Sheffield and Research Director of the Trauma Audit and Research Network
• Prof Niklas Marklund, University of Lund, Sweden
• Prof James Rowe, University of Cambridge
• Prof David Sharp, Imperial College London and UK Dementia Research Institute