Your Sports and Exercise Science offer

Congratulations on your offer to study Sports and Exercise Science at Lancaster.

Sports and Exercise Science student in red sportswear running through light gates in a sports hall

Offer Holder Events

Discover Lancaster University for yourself at one of our events exclusively for Sports and Exercise Science offer holders and their guests.

  • Saturday 22 February
  • Saturday 8 March
  • Saturday 22 March
  • Saturday 26 April

These events are a chance to experience our friendly and inclusive teaching environment first-hand. You’ll get to know our Sports and Exercise Science team and current students through subject talks, taster sessions and informal chats over a complimentary lunch.

At your Offer Holder Event, you will:

  • Learn more about the structure of your degree and our approach to teaching and learning
  • Experience life as a Sports and Exercise Science student through biomechanics, physiology and psychology taster sessions
  • Have the opportunity to chat with current students and staff, and find out answers to any questions you may have

Once you have received an offer to study Sports and Exercise Science, you will be emailed a unique booking link to the email address used on your UCAS application. If you have any questions, or haven't received your personal booking link, please email us.

Our students show you Sports and Exercise Science's focus on people - in sports and beyond, how they are supported and nurtured by our academic team, and how studying at Lancaster has given them the confidence to take their studies wherever they want.

Why Lancaster?

In joining Lancaster, you will become a part of our Sports and Exercise Science community in a highly ranked department (8th in the UK for Sports Science, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025). You will explore the science behind human performance in sports, exercise and health. Using our state-of-the-art equipment, you'll gain the skills to capture and analyse physiological and biomechanical data to better understand human performance and activity - whether that's for competition or disease management.

Connected

You will benefit from Lancaster Medical School’s excellent connections with clinicians, practitioners, and professionals working in both the health and sports domains, whilst gaining experience of working with athletes and members of the wider community.

The professional opportunities that you can apply for come about directly through the relationships between our academics and industry.

Professional

From the outset, our programme is built to prepare you for your professional life post-graduation. You’ll learn all aspects of laboratory health and safety, and risk assessments - essential skills for entry into either a clinical or sports setting. Through your Sports and Exercise Science training, you will learn transferable skills like presentation, communication and interview skills.

Choice

In your second year, you can begin to tailor your degree by choosing to study modules in either Exercise Medicine (health performance) or Sports Medicine (athletic performance). Options in your third year allow you to continue with your chosen direction, or widen your studies by mixing optional modules.

Keep exploring

Sports and Exercise Science student Erin in a red hoodie on an exercise bike

Meet our students: Erin

During my third year, I had a placement with Burnley FC. This came about because one of our lecturers works really closely with the football club academy and was able to get two places for students to work with them over the season.  We had to put an application in and were interviewed and I was one of the successful applicants. Over the summer holiday, the placement was full time (four or five days a week) and is now one or two days a week through term-time, and I did it alongside my studies. We worked with the under-18s and under-23s, helping the sports science team. We did everything from hydration testing to load monitoring and data analysis. It was an amazing experience and it’s been so cool to see how a Premier League football club works from the inside.

Personally, I’m really interested in data analysis so I did their post-match and post-training data analysis, exporting from their trackers and importing into the monitoring system. Some players have to hit certain numbers (an injury prevention system), and if they don’t hit their high speed running or sprint distances, we ran some top-up exercises with them, but we help out wherever we’re needed. In the morning we might check fatigue markers, or help out in the gym, it’s an eclectic mix of things we’ve learned.

We did get to go to matches, which is great, but the training is where we get to put what we’re learning into practice. It was just a brilliant experience to be learning from the Sports Scientists at a Premier League side*, for me especially because my ultimate goal is to work in elite women’s football.

Erin’s placement was over the 2021/22 season.

Erin Griffiths, Sports and Exercise Science graduate

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