Sport and Exercise Sciences BSc (single honours)

Study the science behind sport and exercise at Roehampton. You’ll learn how to optimise athletic performance, prevent injuries, improve wellbeing and help athletes with recovery.

Sport and Exercise Science is made up of three core disciplines: Physiology (the branch of biology that deals with of how the body functions), Biomechanics (the study of movement of the body and the forces that underpin movement), and Psychology (the study of the mind and behavior).  Our Sport and Exercise Sciences degree will give you in-depth understanding of the application of these sciences to sport and exercise, as well as give you the opportunity to study other related topics including nutrition and health.   

Our enthusiastic tutors and state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment provide lively interactive ways to learn, ensuring you will have the best possible experience. We emphasise both theoretical and practical understanding across the range of disciplines, ensuring that our students have subject knowledge, and an ability to apply knowledge appropriately along with employability skills to ensure they become quality graduates in a strong position to build careers in the sports & exercise industry or beyond.

Aspects of our curriculum design that are of particular note include:

• The option to study all three core disciplines (Biomechanics, Physiology, and Psychology) as well as Nutrition across all three years, not just in some years.
• The option to undertake your final year dissertation project in either a ‘by-research’ or in a ‘by-practice’ format. The former is a traditional format suited to those particularly interested in the generation of new knowledge (research). The latter is a novel format, not widely available elsewhere. It is designed for those particularly interested in provision of sport science support to clients.
• The presence of an optional module in which students can gain relevant vocational experience as part of their studies (Work Place Learning).