Looking to work within high performance sport, exercise, health or clinical settings? There are many career options open to you, for example, within coaching, sport psychology, nutrition, athlete development, and more. Find out more about the opportunities available to you when you graduate from the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences.
Find out more about Bounce Physiotherapy's specialist physiotherapy clinic for sports injuries and performance.
The state-of-the-art laboratories, equipment and technologies within the School of Sport and Exercise Science are world-class. With a sleep research unit, respiratory clinic and acclimation chamber, eye tracking and motion capture, various image processing and microscopy suites and much more available to students and researchers.
Find out more about LJMU sport, join our gym, find out information about branding and see information about the facilities we offer and our sport participation programmes.
Read more about the collaboration between Greenbank Sports Academy (GSA) and LCR 4.0. GSA sought to develop a user friendly sports wheelchair which could be used to play power hockey and wheelchair football – which they have since named as ‘The Equaliser’.
The Performance Sport team at LJMU is dedicated to improving both the sporting and academic aspect of student athletes.
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A retrospective of some of our features focusing on issues surrounding gender inequality and also celebrating the achievements of female students and academics at LJMU.
The Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism Group within RISES are involved in health, wellbeing, recovery and sporting performance. Our research into exercise metabolism and adaptation is applicable to the design of interventions that improve human health.
97% of our research activity is rated world-leading or internationally excellent within RISES. Find out about our Biomechanics, Brain and Behaviour, Cardiovascular Health Sciences, Exercise Metabolism and Adaptation, Psychology and Development research groups and our exchanges: the Physical Activity Exchange and the Football Exchange.