Our postgraduate Sport programmes provide high quality and professionally relevant training for those looking to progress in the areas of strength & conditioning, rehabilitation, coaching, management, psychology and sport & exercise science to name but a few.

Many of our postgraduate sport programmes are professionally accredited, ensuring the content you learn meets industry needs. With academics engaged in the industry and research-active, you will be able to get involved with live projects and use our on-site facilities to independently develop your knowledge and skills.

“Every skill that I learnt in my PhD, I use every single day in my job now. That includes the technical skills like measuring heart and blood vessel function, but also the softer skills, like how to write a research paper, how to communicate your work in scientific presentations or to general audiences, or how to work with participants/patients to make them feel comfortable. I built a lot of knowledge during my PhD, but that doesn’t mean I have stopped learning, I think maybe I am just a little more efficient at it now!”

Victoria Meah
PhD Exercise Physiology

“When I enroled in the MSc Strength & Conditioning programme I knew I wanted to pursue the fitness industry as a career. The programme has a good mixture of classroom and practical based learning allowing me to explore coaching as both, a science and an art. It not only taught me evidence-based principles, but how to relay the information in practical terms to get a desired outcome.”

Ryan Stevens
MSc Strength & Conditioning Graduate

At postgraduate level, we are often preparing our students for careers in research or professional practice in sport or health and these themes run parallel through my own career path. My experiences inform teaching and our programme design to help students set off on their own career paths. The relatively small group sizes enable real discussion and skill development, allowing for the needs of students to be met in our supervision, teaching and guidance during their postgraduate programme.

Michael Hughes PhD
Programme Director for MSc Sport & Exercise Science

I came to sport psychology later in life after my first career as an RAF Officer. A love of learning took me on a journey through a second MSc, a PhD, and a professional practice qualification. Fast forward fifteen years and I am now a Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology and a Chartered Sport Psychologist working with athletes from individual sports across all levels of sport.

I truly believe that sport psychology is one of those subjects where we can make a real difference not only to athletes’ performance but also to the quality of their lives in respect of mental wellbeing. My philosophy is that for me to achieve this, I need to be an all-rounder: research informs both my reaching and my practice and vice versa. I hope that students and athletes I work with benefit from that multifaceted approach to the subject.

Karen Howells PhD, CPsychol, SFHEAR
Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology