Russ Best is a principal academic staff member at the Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance, Waikato Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Sport and Exercise, Teesside University, in 2019. He was a part-time lecturer in anatomy and biomechanics at the Department of Sport and Exercise, Teesside University (2014–2017) and a module tutor at the Centre for Medical Education Research, Durham University (2016–2017). Afterward, he came to the Waikato Institute of Technology as an academic staff member in 2017.