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BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science
This exciting and applied course at the University of Wolverhampton has been endorsed through the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Undergraduate Endorsement Scheme (BUES), and provides undergraduates with the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills essential to enter work within the sport and exercise industry.
Further enhancing your employment opportunities, the course is also endorsed by the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMPSA), ensuring that you meet the requirements of potential employers. Course content aligns with the employer-set professional standards of a gym instructor and will equip you with all the skills and competencies you'll need to stand out from the crowd.
The course covers the biomechanical, physiological, and psychological influences on human performance in sport, exercise, and health. You will examine how individuals respond and adapt to sport and exercise in a variety of settings and learn how to design interventions to maximise performance and promote health for a range of people. This may include elite athletes or clinical populations such as those with obesity or cardiac rehabilitation patients.
You will also explore local, national, and international public health and sport initiatives that aim to encourage a physically active population. This course is therefore ideal if you wish to work in applied settings such as professional sport, exercise referral schemes, community physical activity programmes and professional environments that promote active lifestyles and wellbeing.
Dr Tina Smith
Dr Tina Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics at the University of Wolverhampton, who holds a PhD in Biomechanics from Southern Cross University (Australia) and a BSc (Hons) in Sport Science from the University of Brighton. Their research interests are linked to the biomechanics of health, exercise and sport. Consequently, Tina has conducted research in a range of areas such as the biomechanics of football kicking, and having been a recipient of the University of Wolverhampton Early Researcher Award Scheme Fellowship, the mechanics of bone health and functional performance in sedentary and non-sedentary populations. Tina has also been a member of an expert working party for Macmillan Cancer Support, writing physical activity guidelines for healthcare professionals working with people with metastatic bone disease, and has published in peer reviewed academic journals and presented work at international biomechanics conferences. Tina is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has previously been awarded funding by the Higher Education Academy UK Centre for Biosciences to enhance teaching methods used within the physical sciences in Higher Education. Currently Tina is the recipient of a UKRI grant looking at monitoring upper limb movement in people with Parkinson’s disease and a co-investigator on a British Council grant to enhance opportunities for female students in sports leadership.
