Naomi Deakin is a trauma fellow pursuing a PhD in England. No strange thing amongst doctors who are trying to carve out a place and career for themselves. Except that few choose motorsport medicine as an area to chase down that higher qualification. And yet why not? It's a fertile area full of possible aspects to explore.

Yet if you go looking for clinical advancement topics in motorsport your search will not take too long. There's just not that much too be found. This is odd for a profession who have clung to the tenets of evidence based medicine for their daily practice.

So, is no one doing any research in motorsport medicine and if not why not? Or is it out there somewhere sobbing gently in a dark and dusty basement craving the sunlight of publication?

Naomi and I discuss research in motorsport medicine (as opposed to motorsport in general) and try to unpick why there is such an apparent lack of it, the barriers to generating and disseminating it and spot some of the research hot spots coming in the near future.