Discover the exciting world of Sport, Health, and Exercise

The UK, and the World beyond, are facing unprecedented health related problems (Obesity, Type II Diabetes, and Mental Health to name but a few) many of which can be successfully combatted via accurate understanding and application of Sport and Exercise. This degree programme will not only equip you with the ‘basic Sport Science’ skills required to work with elite athletes, but also develop skills required to both understand the benefits of exercise and how to apply exercise as a ‘medicine’ for people with current and potential health related problems.  

Drawing on 40 years of experience, we pride ourselves on offering many ‘hands on’ experiences in the laboratory. These practical experiences are designed to develop essential skills associated with both applying Sport Science and Exercise Science, together with understanding their associated Health benefits. The research-led curriculum, will give you the knowledge and practical skills required for a career in the expanding sport, health, and exercise related markets. Combine these skills with our specific employability/placements opportunities, and this degree will both transform and empower you to make an evidence-based, innovative, and positive contribution to Sport, Exercise, and Health within the UK and the World beyond.

Students on this Sport, Health and Exercise Science degree 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 Sport, Health and Exercise Science degree course is ideal preparation for careers in public health e.g. sports therapy or physiotherapy, health/ fitness or leisure management, coaching and instruction, teaching, the armed or emergency services, youth work, research 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.