Sport and Exercise Science

You’ll study in focused 7-week blocks, immersing yourself in one subject at a time. Pre-session materials build essential knowledge, while interactive practical workshops apply theory to industry-informed challenges reflecting real sport and health scenarios. Post-session tasks develop professional skills through reports, data analysis, and consultancy-style outputs. This approach strengthens employability, mirrors workplace practice, and prepares you for careers in performance, health, and research.

 All assessments are applied and designed to mirror professional sport and exercise science practice. Across the degree, you will complete practicals, laboratory assessments, case studies, consultancy-style reports, presentations, portfolios, and industry informed Grand Challenges. You will analyse real datasets, design evidence-based interventions, justify programme decisions, and present findings to academic and industry-style panels. Assessments emphasise critical thinking, technical competence, ethical practice, and professional communication, ensuring you graduate with the confidence and practical skills required for employment or postgraduate study. 

Placements are embedded within the course to give you meaningful, real-world experience in sport, exercise, and health settings.

During Level 5 and Level 6, you will engage with industry partners, applying your scientific knowledge in professional environments while developing workplace skills such as communication, data collection, ethical practice, and problem-solving. You may work with sports teams, gyms, clinical exercise services, schools, or community health organisations.

These experiences strengthen your CV, expand your professional network, and often inform assessment projects. By graduation, you won’t just understand sport science, you’ll have practical experience demonstrating your readiness for employment.

You’ll learn across the University of South Wales’s Sport Park and Glyntaff campus, immersing yourself in professional-standard physiology, biomechanics, and psychology laboratories.

Gain hands-on experience with metabolic carts, force platforms, motion capture systems, GPS technology, psychology equipment, and our state-of-the-art environmental chamber. Train in our dedicated strength and conditioning centre, biomechanics lab, notational analysis suite, indoor 3G pitch, and floodlit performance fields, each designed to replicate elite sport and applied health environments. Using industry-standard software, digital analysis tools, and extensive library resources, you’ll test ideas, analyse data, and solve real-world challenges, building the confidence and practical expertise to apply science to performance, health, and wellbeing.