Joseph is a Lecturer at Birmingham City University and a practicing Sports Nutritionist, with his applied work focusing on safe approaches to making weight for combat sport athletes, specifically in boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts. This work has led to several publications, most recently as co-author on the ACSM Expert Consensus Statement on Weight Loss in Weight-Category Sports. His current research in this area aims to understand how rules and regulations influence weight management in combat sports. Joseph is also undertaking his PhD in the Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group at Nottingham Trent University, where his doctoral research focuses on the physiological roles of carnosine and beta-alanine in healthy and type 2 diabetic skeletal muscle.
