The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences provides an excellent environment for undertaking your PhD. We have an active group of both full-time and part-time postgraduate research students in the School. Overview The breadth of staff research interests enables us to supervise research degrees in a number of areas, in the sport and exercise sciences and in sports therapy. These areas include: exercise physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, injury, rehabilitation, psychology.

More specifically, we can offer research in the areas of: mental fatigue perceived effort and exercise capacity training and sports performance cycling efficiency, mega sporting events and their legacy rehabilitation physical activity in various populations threat and challenge in sports psychology sports nutrition exercise immunology, pre-habilitation and rehabilitation from injury or surgery and manual therapy in sport and lower back pain.

Your future:
Our programmes have been developed and designed to provide students with the required knowledge and skills to work autonomously in the field of sport science and sports therapy. The programmes provide opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate both specialist academic and transferable skills such as good communication, problem solving, critical analysis and the ability to work independently to a high standard. The programmes also aim to give you the opportunity to build long-term careers within your chosen field.