School of Health and Sport Sciences

Learn by doing, in specialist laboratories, clinical teaching spaces and real-world sport settings.

The School of Health and Sport Sciences, one of the largest schools at the university, brings together sport, exercise, nutrition, biosciences, rehabilitation and physiotherapy in one interdisciplinary community on our Hope Park campus. Our research-informed courses run from undergraduate to postgraduate level and include professionally accredited and endorsed programmes. 

You will learn in purpose-built specialist laboratories, clinical teaching rooms, a physiotherapy simulation unit, a fully equipped Strength and Conditioning suite and the Physiotherapy and Sport Rehabilitation Clinic, which is open to the public. Hope Park Sports is next door, the hub of the University's Sport and Leisure facilities. Whatever you study, you will build the applied, practical skills that employers and professional bodies look for. 

Our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes bring together the science, practice and management of sport, health and rehabilitation. Whatever your interests, you’ll learn in specialist facilities and graduate ready for a career that makes a difference. Browse all our programmes.

Why study with us? 

• Accredited, career-focused degrees: several programmes are accredited or endorsed by CASES, BASRaT, the BPS, the CSP and MACP, or approved by the HCPC, so you graduate ready for professional practice. 
• Specialist facilities: biomechanics, exercise physiology, nutrition and body-composition laboratories, clinical teaching rooms and a physiotherapy simulation unit using both manikins and simulated patients. 
• Real-world experience: a public-facing Physiotherapy and Sport Rehabilitation Clinic, Hope Park Sports and a fully equipped Strength and Conditioning suite give you supervised, hands-on practice. 
• Research-informed teaching: you learn from staff whose research addresses musculoskeletal health and performance, and exercise physiology and nutrition, with behavioural and motor-control expertise running across both. 

Research 

Our applied, intervention-focused research addresses musculoskeletal health and performance, and exercise physiology and nutrition. We work with clinical and athletic populations and provide students opportunities to get involved e.g. dissertations. Find out more about our research here.