Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences (Dual Degree) BSc (Hons)

Through lectures, practical sessions and seminars, you'll develop the practical, team and leadership skills needed to collect biomechanical data in different environments. You'll apply biomechanical knowledge and principles to a variety of sporting situations and use current technologies to understand sporting technique, enhancing your knowledge of human performance. You'll learn to manage information, interpret your findings and become an effective communicator in presenting biomechanical insights.

Through lectures, practical sessions and workshops, you'll apply sport and exercise physiology knowledge and principles to a variety of sporting situations. You'll use appropriate physiological techniques to collect and analyse data, learn to manage information and become an effective communicator in presenting sport and exercise physiology insights.

Through lectures, practical sessions and workshops, you'll develop skills in data collection, analysis, team work and leadership, and learn to integrate data with theory and practical knowledge. You'll discover how to effectively communicate findings to a variety of audiences and describe your knowledge of core areas in sport and exercise psychology. You'll explore how psychological theories explain sport and exercise behaviour and performance, and describe information from a variety of sources, including qualitative and quantitative research.

Examine how responses differ between exercise modes and how psychological factors can limit exercise performance. Discover the different methods behind exercise data collection, handling, processing and interpretation.

You'll compare biomechanical data from current technologies in either a performance or sports injury context, showcasing your understanding of biomechanical data collection and processing methodologies. As you communicate your ideas in biomechanical analyses to a scientific audience, you'll demonstrate intellectual curiosity of biomechanical principles and apply them to examples in sport and exercise.

Evaluate the factors that impact sport performance, athlete mental health and the psychology of physical activity – considering the role exercise can play in the treatment of mental health conditions. You'll learn to present references as per scientific conventions, critique literature and communicate your knowledge effectively through written work. When you finish, you'll be intellectually curious of key and emerging issues in the psychology of sport and exercise.

Analyse your current skills and areas of development as you prepare to progress to your final year. Develop your organisation and communication skills, gain relevant experience towards your future career and reflect on your learning experience as you engage with the Careers and Employability Service. You'll identify the skills, characteristics and areas of knowledge needed for graduate positions in sports, health and exercise sciences and construct a career development plan that suits your specific professional needs.

You’ll interpret physiological data to explain exercise’s impact on cardiovascular, metabolic, pulmonary and musculoskeletal health from childhood to older age. You’ll apply this knowledge first-hand, learning to communicate and present scientific knowledge effectively. Gain perspective on how inactivity in earlier years threatens health later in life and equip yourself with valuable practical experience in the assessment of physical activity and health.

Determine how different modes of exercise, environmental conditions and stressors can affect physiological responses. Through laboratory practicals you'll develop skills in collection, analysis and the interpretation of physiological data within sporting or occupational contexts.

From hydration to macro and micronutrients, you'll gain an understanding of different health, fitness and sport requirements. By applying different methods, you'll learn to assess nutrition, body composition and health-related fitness, and deepen your knowledge of relationships between nutrition, health, fitness and sports performance.

This module will explore the operational process involved within performance analysis and how these can influence practice through evaluating contemporary theory and research about how humans learn motor skills, including perceptual and cognitive processes. Students will develop the practical skills involved in the collection and analysis of data within sports including videography, coding and calculation of key performance indicators.

The primary goal of a strength and conditioning coach is to enhance athletic performance by developing an athlete's speed, strength, and power, with specifics varying based on the athlete and performance context. This goal is achieved through evidence-based training programs tailored to both teams and individual athletes, often in close collaboration with coaches and physiotherapists. Strength and conditioning also involves coaching proper movement mechanics, supervising and motivating athletes during exercise, and assessing athletes' physical attributes through screening.

You'll learn to work both independently, and as part of a team, whilst you evaluate literature on a particular topic to form a research question and method. Through taught sessions you'll develop your knowledge on data analysis procedures. You'll explore how to evaluate your findings and produce well-argued and evidence-based conclusions in an academic manner. By applying appropriate scientific techniques you'll discover how to implement your research plan and evaluate it's effectiveness. You'll develop your ability to effectively communicate your research process and findings through an individual written report and confidently present your project through a poster presentation, demonstrating your ability to respond to marker questions.

Engage with empirical evidence and literature to understand the strengths and limitations of research. Test ergogenic aids by analysing and interpreting physiological data in practical learning and critically assess evidence supporting ergogenic aids to develop balanced conclusions.

Apply your existing knowledge of human responses to strength and conditioning training to plan and deliver effective coaching sessions, considering the requirements for long-term periodised training programmes. Evaluate emerging themes in literature and how they can be practically applied to the delivery of effective programmes and sessions whilst describing the key concepts that underpin strength and conditioning. Develop skills to work in various settings, reacting positively to new situations through awareness, flexibility, and adaptability.

Become an evidence-based exercise expert translating data from research studies into practitioner-friendly information. Evaluate key issues in the development of test procedures and protocols for physiological assessment and interpret athlete assessment data, using this to provide evidence-based training guidelines. As part of this module, you'll learn to bridge the gap between research and athletes.

By translating theory and research in the domain of skill acquisition into practice, students will explore how these key skills can be developed. Specifically, the module will focus on working with elite populations and have a core emphasis on critical analysis of current research perspectives with a view to using knowledge to inform skill acquisition interventions. Content will be focussed on the development of new and novel training practices that are grounded in theory and research perspectives.

You'll learn to interpret key principles and how to conduct assessments with athletes, teams and coaches. By collecting qualitative data, you'll understand important ethical and methodological aspects, as well as social and developmental issues relevant to sport and exercise psychology practitioners. Using information from a variety of sources, you'll produce evidence-based recommendations that enhance client performance and shows your analytical ability.

Select advanced biomechanical analysis techniques and apply them to complex sporting and clinical scenarios, using this to answer relevant research questions. As part of this module, you'll choose a project area and analyse data in collaborative teams, present your project protocol, and submit an individual conference paper at the end. Using appropriate language and terminology, you'll develop professional fluency conveying complex biomechanical principles.

Assess methods that enable people to work and perform in extreme environments. Develop assessment competence by producing a podcast presentation on aspects of physiology in extreme environments and a portfolio detailing a practical laboratory session. Learn to communicate with different audiences, sharing your insights on the impact of extreme environments on human physiology. By the end, you'll be able to confidentally discuss human physiology and pathophysiology in extreme environments.

Develop practical capabilities in physical and exercise rehabilitation, applying a multidisciplinary approach to this complex discipline. Through connected teaching and assessment, you'll appreciate the complexity of exercise-based rehab, the professions involved and potential opportunities for future research and practice. You'll evaluate evidence to ethically prescribe exercise for people living with chronic or complex health conditions. By the end, you'll have the skills to contribute to multidisciplinary teams advancing this area of health and performance.

You'll explore the unique health and performance considerations of females, focusing on the differences between men and women, as well as individual variations among women. You'll examine the impact of the gender gap in scientific research and give special attention to female-specific issues such as breast health, injury risk, and nutritional needs.

This module will focus on the factors that may have an enhancing or compromising effect on typical youth development with with a view to using evidence to inform national and organisational-level policy. Discover applications of motor learning and development research frameworks to inform interventions with youth age groups. Content will be focussed on the development of new and novel training practices that are grounded in contemporary theory and research perspectives. Additionally, this module will cover the requirements for conducting psychological research in an ethical and safe manner.