On the Management Development side of her work, Alison Cooke has written on the need for proper management of talented technical research staff (see here), and a New Scientist conference paper entitled The Next Generation.

Most of Alison's publications, however, have been in the area of sports engineering, with an emphasis on the mechanics of ball sports. The following is a selection of her articles, including extracts published by Blackwell Science Publishing, now managed by the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA):

• Alexander, S., Underwood, D. & Cooke, A.J. (1998), Cricket Glove Design, Sports Engineering - Design, (Haake, S.J. ed.), Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Eng. of Sport, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Brown, T.M.C., Cooke, A.J. (2000), Aeromechanical and Aerodynamic Behaviour of Tennis Balls, Proceedings, 1st International Congress on Tennis, Science and Technology, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke, A.J. (1989), The Aerodynamics of Shuttlecocks, Proceedings, 10th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference.
• Cooke A.J. (1992), The Aerodynamics and Mechanics of Shuttlecocks, PhD Thesis, Cambridge University.
• Cooke, A.J. (1996), Shuttlecock Design and Development, Sports Engineering - Design and Development (Haake, S.J. ed.), Proc. 1st Int. Conf. Eng. of Sport, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke, A.J. (1997), The Future of Manufacturing (Sports Engineering), Proceedings, The Cambridge Next Generation Symposium, New Scientist.
• Cooke, A.J. (1999), Shuttlecock Aerodynamics, Sports Engineering Journal (Haake, S.J. ed.), Volume 2 Issue 2, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke, A.J. (2000), An Overview of Tennis Ball Aerodynamics, Sports Engineering Journal (Haake, S.J. ed.), Volume 3 Issue 1, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke, A.J. (2002), Computer Simulation of Shuttlecock Trajectories, Sports Engineering Journal (Haake, S.J. ed.), Volume 5 Issue 2, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke, A.J., Bryce-Taylor, A.M., (2002), Sports engineering in education: a methodology for educating engineers and promoting engineering careers, Proceedings, Second Annual Symposium on Engineering Education, Institution of Electrical Engineers.
• Cooke, A.J., Bryce-Taylor, A.M., (2002), Sport science and engineering in education: a multimedia methodology to attract and educate young engineers, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Eng. of Sport, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Cooke A.J., Macari Pallis, J., Pankhurst, A., (2003), Sports Engineering in Education: an Interactive Computer-based tool for Educating Tennis Coaches on the Science of Tennis, Tennis Science & Technology 2 (Miller, S. ed.), pub. International Tennis Federation, London.
• Cooke A.J. & Mullins J. (March 1994), The Flight of the Shuttlecock, New Scientist.
• Cooke, A.J., Roussopoulos, K., Pallis J., Haake, S.J., (2002), Correlation between racquet design and arm injuries,Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Eng. of Sport, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Dixon, J. & Cooke A.J. (1995), Managing Product Design: A Case Study from the Consumer Sports Industry, Product Design Seminar 1995, Teaching Company Directorate.
• Frank, M., Cant, R.S. & Cooke, A.J. (2000), Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Shuttlecock, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Eng. of Sport, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Hubbard, M. and Cooke, A.J. (1997), Spin Dynamics of the Badminton Shuttlecock, Proc. VI Int. Symp. on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, edited by Laboratory of Sports Sciences, University of Tskuba, Japan.
• Jarratt, T.A.W. and Cooke, A.J. (2001), A Comparison Of Cricket Ball Cores, Proc. Materials and Science in Sport, edited by Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.
• Knowles, K., Cooke, A.J., Lennox, T., Mastropietro, S., (2000), Design of Real Tennis Balls Proc. 3rd Conf. The Eng. of Sport, pp43-50, pub. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
• Roy, J., Cooke, A.J. & Caple, J. (1997), The Use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) to Maintain Slurry Composition, Proc. 23rd BICTA Investment Casting Conference.
• Subic, A.J. & Cooke, A.J., (August 2003), Materials in Cricket, Materials in Sports Equipment, (Jenkins, M. ed.), pub. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.

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