Sport and Exercise Science
Research
The aim of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science is to provide staff, final year and postgraduate students with the opportunity to undertake high quality, internationally recognised, applied research in the sub-discipline fields of Physiology, Psychology, Biomechanics, Health and Sport Development.
Research groupings
Our current research groupings are: Survival and Thermal Science; Occupational Science and Health; Sports Science (Performance); and Sports Management and Pedagogy. In 2001 the relevant research output of the department contributed to a Grade 5 in the research assessment exercise (RAE 11, "Professions Allied to Medicine").
Research projects
The research projects of our 3rd year students are often linked to the research interests of staff and the opportunity to write this work up in the form of a short Journal paper has led to submissions of publishable standard. Former University of Portsmouth sports science graduate Helen Barrett was recently awarded the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Honorary Fellows Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year Award 2008 for her dissertation entitled “The impact of team pre-match body language and stored stimulus information on opponent outcome expectancy, episodic and dispositional judgements”.
View a video of current post graduate research projects in sports science.
Research-led teaching
Student projects are the most visible link between the curriculum and the department’s research, but our research informs many areas of the curriculum including units on Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Applied Sports Biomechanics and Thermal Physiology.