"The academic program was awesome, the lectures were fun and entertaining with lots of discussion" - William Amante, William and Mary, USAThis pathway is designed to offer students a unique opportunity to gain an insight into sports performance and the Olympic Games, the world’s greatest sporting event. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the science behind the athletic preparation, participation and economic engagement in the world’s greatest competition. Students will attend lectures, seminars and laboratory practicals designed to promote active learning. Topics will include endurance performance and physiology, nutrition, overtraining, sport and its relationship to health, psychological intervention, biomechanics and the events environment of the Games. Students will be able to interact with internationally renowned and world-class researchers who have experiences of working with elite sports performers.
The Sport, Performance and the Olympic Games module descriptor is now available for download.
Timetable
The 2012 Sport, Performance and the Olympic Games timetable and reading list is now available.
Please check our website for regular updates. If you would like to be emailed as new details become available please email Lucy Thompson.
I am the Director of the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC). I am also the Director of Postgraduate Studies in Sport and Health Sciences and I lecture on the physiological aspects of the degree programme. My research is internationally recognised in paediatric exercise physiology (particularly the physiological responses to high intensity exercise and fatigue) and applied youth sports performance (particularly in relation to the long term development of young athletes).
I have authored 100 original and review articles, book chapters and proceedings articles. I am the co-author of three textbooks for undergraduate exercise and sport science students, and I have also co-authored two research related text books. In 2011 I co-edited the conference proceedings text book: Children and Exercise, Pediatric Exercise Physiology XXVII.
I am a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and the American College of Sports Medicine. I am also an Associate Editor for two journals: European Journal of Sports Science and the Journal of Sport Science and Medicine. I have acted as a consultant pediatric physiologist to the World-Class Start programmes for British Gymnastics and British Cycling and have worked with professional Premiership teams in football and rugby.
Professor Craig Williams, Academic Coordinator for the Sport pathway.
