Sport and Exercise Science

Recently completed or current Masters by Research student theses:

• How do we prepare children for competition?
• The effective use of competition as a pedagogical tool to develop competence, confidence and enjoyment in physical education.
• The importance of physical education / games / physical activity within secondary education
• Understanding and knowledge of concussion amongst rugby union players
• Blacklisted: the young, black, male professional footballer and education in England.
• Place meanings of recreational climbers at an indoor rock climbing venue
• Young children's understanding of fluid intake
• The impact of wellbeing on the physical activities of occupational therapy for a child with dyspraxia.
• Negotiating sexuality within a University women's football team: a qualitative study.

Recently completed or current PhD student theses:

• Interventions to improve Running Economy (RE) in trained runners.
• Intervention to reduce blood pressure and improve vascular health
• Implications for Injury prevention and performance in team sports
• Examining mentoring in the development of sports coaches
• Embedding the perceptual motor system under an ecological psychology account of human behaviour
• Swimming as a rehabilitation modality for persistent low back pain: A development and feasibility study
• Social disadvantage and the role of physical education and Sport-for-All in young people at Cyprus and Greece
• Investigate non-hormonal and hormonal contraceptive users on markers of athletic performance, internal athlete wellness and training load monitoring
• Enhancing our current understanding of isometric exercise training and its application into the wider community
• Can contextualized interventions impact the resilience of coaches and athletes in a schools elite sports programme?