Sport And Exercise Psychology BSc (Hons)

Being a sport and exercise psychologist involves understanding how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of athletes and exercisers influence sport performance and exercise behaviours. This programme help you to learn:
Why pressure sometimes harms, but sometimes helps performance
How motivation affects how hard people train and how much they achieve
How coaches inspire optimal performance in athletes
How the world’s best athletes get over failure and mistakes to bounce back better.
Throughout the course, you will:
Grasp the complexity of sport performance and the crucial role that the mind plays in helping athletes produce optimal performance
Assess the psychological demands of high performance environments
Design and implement mental skills training with athletes of all levels and ages
Use physiological markers to determine underlying psychological states, particularly important in measuring athlete’s stress responses under pressure
Monitor exercise participation and understand the psychological determinants and implications of physical activity
Our Sport and Exercise Psychology degree is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). This means that when you graduate you can claim Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC). When you graduate with us, you will have experienced what it is to be a sport and exercise psychologist, and will possess all that you need to pursue an amazing and rewarding career in sport.
In addition to these vital academic and vocational skills, you will also be immersed in the work that we do with elite sporting organizations and businesses here at Staffordshire University. We are specialists in the areas you will learn about, and have a vast collective experience of working with elite athletes.