Sport and Exercise Science MSc by Research

Recently completed or current student theses:

Interventions to improve Running Economy (RE) in trained runners; Intervention to reduce blood pressure and improve vascular health; Implications for Injury prevention and performance in team sports; Examining mentoring in the development of sports coaches; Embedding the perceptual motor system under an ecological psychology account of human behavior; Swimming as a rehabilitation modality for persistent low back pain: A development and feasibility study; Social disadvantage and the role of physical education and Sport-for-All in young people at Cyprus and Greece; Investigate non-hormonal and hormonal contraceptive users on markers of athletic performance, internal athlete wellness and training load monitoring; Enhancing our current understanding of isometric exercise training and its application into the wider community; Can contextualized interventions impact the resilience of coaches and athletes in a schools elite sports programme?

Research areas include:

Clinical Exercise Science; Sports Performance; Policy and Social Research.