No major athlete or team is complete without a sports scientist on their staff. Our course trains you to work in this fast-moving field – and there’s financial support for promising athletes. You’ll work with professional athletes to understand and apply the four key disciplines of sports science: physiology, psychology, biomechanics and nutrition. Your course will have a new home in Compass House, which will extend our campus along East Road. You’ll have the latest technology at your fingertips and be able to collaborate with other students on innovative projects to hone your skills.

Sports science graduates are increasingly in demand around the world. There are wide-ranging employment opportunities – from introducing people to sports, to developing them as participants and even helping take them to the top. As a sports scientist, you could work: as an athlete-support scientist, with teams and national sports associations as an exercise consultant as a performance analyst in sports development, for a school, a county or a national body in the fitness industry as a clinical physiologist in applied research. You could also continue your studies at a higher level, perhaps by doing a PGCE which would allow you to teach. You might go on to train as a physiotherapist, exercise physiologist, clinical exercise consultant or healthcare scientist in the NHS. Postgraduate degrees in sports science are also more and more popular as a route into doing research.