Sport and Exercise Science and Sports Therapy - PhD

University of Kent

Sport, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences provides an excellent environment for undertaking your PhD. We have an active group of both full-time and part-time postgraduate research students in the School and staff with expertise in a number of areas in sports science and therapy, including exercise physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, injury, rehabilitation and psychology. Overview: The breadth of staff research interests enables us to supervise research degrees in a number of areas, in the sport and exercise sciences and in sports therapy. These areas include: exercise physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, injury, rehabilitation, psychology. More specifically, we can offer research in the areas of: mental fatigue perceived effort and exercise capacity training and sports performance cycling efficiency, mega sporting events and their legacy rehabilitation physical activity in various populations threat and challenge in sports psychology sports nutrition exercise immunology, pre-habilitation and rehabilitation from injury or surgery and manual therapy in sport and lower back pain.

School of Sport and Exercise Sciences