Are you interested in teaching and educating individuals to maximise their potential? Or do you want to help individuals become more physically active and create a healthier nation? Then this is the degree for you!

The great thing about this degree is that it offers you the opportunity to learn about all aspects of sport, health and physical education. This maximises your potential and opens the door to a variety of exciting careers opportunities. This degree is particularly good for those wishing to pursue a career in teaching physical education and sets you up well to progress to a Postgraduate Certificate of Education. Likewise, if you wish to pursue a career in the fitness industry or in coaching this degree will provide you with the skills and practical placement opportunities to excel. In addition, the broad nature of the degree is also suitable for those wishing to pursue a research career in a variety of sport and health related areas.

Within this degree you will study several ‘hands on’ modules, which are taught by experts in sport science, health and physical education. For example, you will study modules with large practical components that are delivered by a current physical education teacher who will provide you will the experience required to teach physical education at secondary school. This and our research-led curriculum, covering core Sport Science topics of physiology, psychology and biomechanics, will give you the knowledge and skills required for a career in the expanding sport, health and physical education sector. With the addition of our sport and exercise specific employability programs you have the opportunity to make yourself stand out from the crowd with a degree from one of the ‘original’ schools of sport science in the UK.

Students will typically have one or two hours of lectures per week for each module as well as laboratory time, seminars and tutorials. This direct contact time will be tied with student-centred learning such as reading, writing essays and reports, gathering information and data, working on group projects and preparing verbal and poster presentations. These form the basis of your assessment, along with examinations, case studies and critiques of research.

25% of students’ time is spent in lectures, seminars and lab practicals. We keep our lectures, seminars and lab class sizes small:

• Lectures: 30-150
• Seminars: approx. 12
• Laboratory practicals: approx. 25

This means that our students have closer contact with lecturers and tutors, and all our students have access to regular one-to-one meetings with staff.

This course is ideal preparation for careers in fitness/leisure management, sports administration, coaching and instruction, sports development, research, sports therapy/physiotherapy, teaching, the armed or emergency services, sports journalism, youth work and management consultancy.

All our courses will prepare you for a career as a sport scientist, working with squads of elite athletes and performers to fine tune their training; sport science research; working in the public health sector, for example in sports therapy or physiotherapy; or working in the health/fitness industry generally. Postgraduate study and a career in teaching (after completing a postgraduate certificate of education), research and lecturing is another vocational route. There are also some specific career opportunities for different degrees listed with the course details.

Some School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science graduates simply use their academic qualification and the transferable skills that they have developed to work in management, the emergency services or to set up their own business.

Our research-led curriculum covers the core Sport, Health and Exercise Science topics of physiology, psychology, exercise, health and medicine, biomechanics and effective coaching. Our expertise and high calibre teaching will help you gain the knowledge and skills you need for a career in the expanding sport, health, exercise and adventure markets.