World class facilities

You will explore the science behind human performance in sports, exercise and health. Using our elite sporting and clinical technology, you will gain the skills to capture and analyse physiological and biomechanical data to better understand human performance and activity. You will learn how to act to enhance performance and activity - whether for competition or disease management - and how to provide feedback to an athlete, a patient or member of the general public.

You will have classes in the Human Performance Lab from the very start of your studies, that will train you on the cutting-edge technology used by today’s elite athletes. These include the HP Cosmos treadmill, Biodex isokinetic dynamometer, Cortex online gas analysis system, electronically braked cycle ergometers, and our Optojump performance assessment system to name just a few.

Our purpose-built Strength and Conditioning Room provides a workout space full of high specification conditioning equipment. You’ll have the opportunity to train, or train others to a high level of performance in year one module Exercise Prescription. This room is home to a GHD bench, ski ergometers, watt bikes, assault bikes, and Technogym skillmills, skillruns, skillbikes and skillrows.

We have invested over £4 million in new life science laboratories. In your first year, you will use these during the practical elements of Molecules of Life and Cell Structure and Function, taught by colleagues from the Faculty’s highly ranked Division of Biomedical Science.