About This Course
Research Areas
Sport and Exercise Sciences, with research interests in:
Sport psychology/human performance:
- Stress and performance
- Application of social cognitive theories to sport and performance
- Mental imagery
- Self-talk
- Group dynamics
- Leadership
- Personality and emotion regulation
- Risk-taking
- The application of all of the above in business, military and other contexts
Exercise Psychology/health behaviours:
- Participation motivation
- Self-regulation
- Implicit processes
Exercise physiology:
- Clinical exercise physiology
- Performance physiology
- Muscle wasting in chronic disease
- Rehabilitation in chronic disease
- Fatigue
- Psychobiology of physical exertion
- Skeletal muscle function and biochemistry
- Cardio-vascular physiology
- Exercise and immune function; diet and exercise
- Hydration/dehydration and exercise
- Physiology of extreme environments
Motor Control and Learning:
- Visual control of movement
- Motor programming
- Attention
- Perception and action
- Feedback processing
Entry Requirements
Normally successful candidates will have a First Class Honours or Masters degree, or equivalent, in a related discipline. Candidates with an Upper Second Class honours degree, or equivalent, may be accepted if they can present evidence of their ability to study at this level.
