Course Modules

Sport and physical activity have been shown to have enormous benefits for our physical and mental wellbeing. Researchers in this theme develop understanding of the impacts of physical activity and how to promote it in a wide range of settings […]

Through the Institute’s Occupational Performance Research Group (OPRG), researchers deliver multidisciplinary research and consultancy to enhance the selection, performance, protection and health of personnel working within physically demanding occupations, such as the military, emergency services and industry.

Researchers in this theme deliver research and consultancy to athletes, coaches, officials, sporting organisations and schools aimed at enhancing the performance, development and wellbeing of coaches, athletes and teachers.

In this module you will explore how knowledge about dance is rooted in philosophical and aesthetic ideologies, from both historicised and contemporary perspectives. You will look through a wide lens at dance and its evolving beliefs with a focus on

Academic tutors will focus on your academic and professional development, provide pastoral care, support the link between theory and social work practice and enable you to understand service user and carer perspectives.

Explicitly linked to both Foundation in Knowledge and Skills and Personal Study in Education, the aims of this module are to provide you with the academic and personal support necessary to thrive in your first year at university. There will

You will gain real-world experience of the demands of applied dance science and have an opportunity to learn and develop research-informed applied skills, whilst having access to specialist support and equipment.

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to plan, implement and evaluate dance-specific monitoring and observation of an individual dancer within a real-life setting, over a specified period of time.

This module offers a theoretical choice to engage with current debates about dance and is rooted in philosophical and aesthetic ideologies, from both historicised and contemporary perspectives.

This module focuses on how to become an effective teacher of the core curriculum subject of Science.