Applied Sport and Exercise (Top-up)
BSc (Hons)

You develop a multi-disciplinary approach to the measurement and analysis of activities from applied sport science. You develop practical data collection techniques from the fields of physiology, psychology and biomechanics alongside evaluating the techniques. You analyse activities from a holistic perspective and prescribe suitable interventions to enhance performance.

You build upon the research skills developed throughout previous study to carry out a research project in an area of interest negotiated with your supervisor. If you choose to work with or collect data from a vulnerable group, a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required, and you are responsible for paying for this.

You develop your understanding of the methods of enquiry associated with sport and exercise, including research design, reflective practice, ethics, writing research proposals and data analysis. You critically evaluate current literature from an area of sport and exercise that interests you to inform a research proposal in the dissertation module.

All children should have the opportunity to experience high quality physical education, physical activity and sport. Ensuring that all children, including those with complex physical, cognitive and psychological needs have access to sufficient daily physical activity is important for their physical and mental well-being. Physical education is an integral part of the curriculum in most schools and should involve pupils in the continuous process of planning, performing and evaluating in all areas of activity. Children who participate in sport and physical activity should have a quality experience and be given the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Regular and sufficient physical activity can also improve children’s behaviour, enhance academic achievement and integration. You explore and evaluate sustainable’ strategies to improve children’s health and wellbeing, a key focus of government physical activity strategies.

The benefits of exercise are well documented, but exercise can also be used to enhance societal psychological and physiological health and wellbeing. Using exercise to enhance wellbeing for the individual and society will reap the physical benefits as well as experiencing an overall increase in quality of life. You consider a range of topics related to mental and subjective well-being will be explored as well as examining the efficacy of various public health promotion campaigns.