Program Overview

Gain the skills you need to analyse and optimise sport and exercise performance in either individual or team sports and in arduous occupations such as defence or firefighting on this Applied Sport and Exercise Performance Masters.

On this MSc course, you'll learn what it takes to win and perform at an elite level in both sporting and professional environments. You’ll develop applied monitoring and testing techniques, practical skills, research expertise and grasp various scientific concepts for improving performance, while also learning to integrate contemporary issues like inclusion and ethical practice into your skillset.

You’ll learn to assess and use new innovation and technology to enhance human performance, and understand how environmental factors affect work and sports performance – discovering ways to mitigate against them in a changing climate. You’ll explore current concepts relating to human performance and discover current research in sport and exercise performance.

During your studies, you can choose to work toward British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) accreditation as a sport and exercise scientist. This course is currently "endorsed with conditions" which will be met by 30 September 2024. The University of Portsmouth is the first in the country to receive this status.

On this Master's, you'll focus on applied performance in both sports and occupational settings. If you're looking for a clinical course, try our Master's in Clinical Exercise Physiology or Physiotherapy (Pre-registration). Please note that Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) is for UK nationals only.

Course highlights

• Develop an interdisciplinary approach to enhancing and maintaining human performance and understanding the techniques used to measure team and individual performance in sporting or occupational environments
• Hear from, and network with, industry insiders like UK Sports Institute and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Use your laboratory and field-based skills to conduct multidisciplinary analysis of human performance in a range of environments, including performance profiling and assessing physiological determinants of performance
• Develop your interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to communicate with clients in a professional and approachable style
• Undertake professional development opportunities to gain a variety of new skills
• Use our professional facilities in biomechanics, physiology, psychology and performance testing
• Access our new Ravelin Sports Centre, designed to be one of the UK’s most sustainable sports facilities