PhD Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

About This Course

Research Areas

Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, with research interests in:

Sport psychology/human performance:

Stress and performance
Application of social cognitive theories to sport and performance
Mental imagery
Self-talk
Group dynamics
Leadership
Personality and emotion regulation
Risk-taking
The application of all of the above in business, military and other contexts

Exercise Psychology/health behaviours:

Participation motivation
Self-regulation
Implicit processes

Exercise physiology:

Clinical exercise physiology
Performance physiology
Muscle wasting in chronic disease
Rehabilitation in chronic disease
Fatigue
Psychobiology of physical exertion
Skeletal muscle function and biochemistry
Cardio-vascular physiology
Exercise and immune function; diet and exercise
Hydration/dehydration and exercise
Physiology of extreme environments

Motor Control and Learning:

Visual control of movement
Motor programming
Attention
Perception and action
Feedback processing