 I love sport and I'm obsessed with sport. Sport has so many benefits for the whole community. We need to look at how we make sport safer if we don't change our industry practices. The sport of rugby league may be gone in the next 30 years or so. My name is Dr Susie Edwards and I'm a biomechanist at the University of Newcastle. A concussion is an injury to the brain. It occurs when the brain sessanes and impact it has different short-term and long-term effects. Tamana Tahu is an ex-international rugby league and union player. When I started working with Tamana he wanted to improve the game so we started manipulating his tackle technique to make a more efficient tackle and to make a tackle that was safer. As an ex-player and coach this is how he thought he could make a big impact in the industry. We get athletes into the biomechanics lab and we use 3D motion capture to film their movement. Associate Professor Andrew Gardner is a neuropsychologist. He's become one of the world leaders in sports concussion. I can have a look at someone's movement but I don't have that extensive knowledge of cognition effects and that's what Andrew brings to the table. The partnership between Tamana, Andrew and myself will revolutionise sporting practices and how tackling is taught from an under six to the elite level. A student would have ample opportunity to engage as part of this sports science research. We have really strong links with our community sports from the Newcastle nights to the jets to the Central Coast mariners. This gives industry-ready experience to these students. I love my job because I can make a bigger impact right here at the University of Newcastle by training our undergrad students who then can make it a greater impact than just myself alone.