On our Sport and Exercise Science degree, you'll learn how to get the best out of your client - whether they're an athlete who wants to maximise their sporting performance, or a less active individual looking to improve their health. You'll work in sport or within a healthcare context. You'll use first-class equipment for analysing sporting performance. And you'll develop a critical understanding of key areas in sport and exercise science - including physiology, psychology, and biomechanics. You'll develop your practical skills by working in laboratory and field settings, using our first-class facilities to plan, design and carry out analysis and interpretation of human performance. By working with real people, you'll also develop your interpersonal skills so you can communicate effectively - verbally and in writing. We have links with organisations such as Stoke City FC Academy and the cardiac referral unit at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. So you'll have the opportunity to work one-to-one with a variety of individuals.

The purpose of this Award is to produce graduates with critical and in-depth knowledge of current issues relating to Sport and Exercise Science. The Award provides the necessary theoretical underpinning and practical competencies for individuals to work professionally in this developing area. The Award requires students to study general subjects within sport and exercise, which underpin the scientific understanding of sport (such as coaching, psychology, physiology and biomechanics with some nutrition) as well as developing key transferable skills. These skills are embedded in the Staffordshire Graduate attributes and developed within the research and employability modules at levels 4, 5 and 6. The award is endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES), providing students follow a prescribed route. The BASES Undergraduate Endorsement Scheme (BUES) assures the appropriateness of the curriculum, resources and opportunities that undergraduate courses offer for training sport and exercise scientists. Employers looking to acquire the best sport and exercise scientists know that graduates of BASES endorsed programmes have received an appropriate curriculum, resources and opportunities that undergraduate courses offer for training sport and exercise scientists. Opportunities are available to undertake national governing body coaching awards in a variety of sports. These are increasingly important to enable the demonstration of coaching skills by attaining recognised qualifications. Students are strongly encouraged to undertake a range of these awards whilst studying for their awards. The need for these qualifications will be identified through the employability modules and the use of PDP. Students gain employment in a variety of professions from coaching, to teaching and employment in the sports science industry. A number of students have demonstrated their enterprise skills by developing their own businesses. These skills were developed as part of their award. The award also seeks to develop a global perspective and recognition of the nature of the global economy.