Why study BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science transcript

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Sports science is a fantastic career to kind of get into, because what it allows you to do is work with individuals to try to maximize their performance as best you possibly can by applying scientific principles to their training and their nutrition, to try and get the best out of them. So it relies less on anecdotal experience and more on a scientific foundation to help improve that performance.

Senior Lecturer of Research Methods and Exercise, Scott Burnett is stood in a classroom talking to camera. Upbeat music play in the background.

0:26:10

I really wanted to work in the sporting industry and specifically women's football and I was really interested in the S and C, (Strength and Conditioning), side of things so I did some research online and Solent offered the best kind of, course for getting into that. The accreditation, the BASES accreditation the course runs alongside it, so we learn all the content and then at the end we're able to take the exam for the qualification efficiently.

Student of BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science, Daisy Bradfield is is standing in sports science classroom talking to camera.

0:55:19

I think the the unique selling point of the course at Solent University is the fact that it's so applied and hands-on in terms of the work students get to do. Obviously there's a theoretical underpinning to what we do, but we know that employers are really after those kind of hands-on skills so when a graduate comes through a degree at Solent University, they not only have the underpinning theory but they have the the practical skills they would be able to demonstrate in psychology, physiology or biomechanics, so they can transition into employment far more easily.

Senior Lecturer of Research Methods and Exercise, Scott Burnett is stood in a classroom talking to camera.

1:31:11

We've got three different support tools, one of them is a performance tool for basketball, the other is a multi-sports gym, we've got a high performance academy gym and then the more elite end, we've got the physiology lab and biomechanics lab, in there we've got everything from our shoe simulators, heat tents to metabolic carts, body composition analysers, blood analysers, 3d motion capture systems, integrated force base, portable force base, so we've got a vast amount of equipment all available for students to use on and off campus.

Technician on Sport Science, Chris Morphew is stood in a classroom talking to camera. Throughout are cutaways to shots of people playing basketball in a sports hall, a weights gym, s student working in a sports science lab doing VO2 max tests with an academic,

2:09:23

The practical's are very, very hands-on so most of the modules will have a practical element to them, whereby there is an expectation that all students get involved, because it's all well and good being able to describe what certain activities like if you've never actually been involved in it and never experienced it, it's very difficult to then communicate that to someone you might well be working with later on.

Senior Lecturer of Research Methods and Exercise, Scott Burnett is stood in a classroom talking to camera.

2:34:10

So there's lots of additional courses you can take, there's help, lots of support, one-to-one stuff. They offer obviously a placement year which is quite exciting and quite a big opportunity. And lots of work experience if you want it you can help out in the laboratories and in the teaching gyms.

Student of BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science, Daisy Bradfield is is standing in sports science classroom talking to camera.

2:57:14

When we have external organisations come in, so we've had some local professional football teams in here doing their kind of, pre-season testing, series of triathletes, distance runners in, we always make sure that we try and get as many students involved as we can so that it's not a kind of a closed-door policy where they look through the door to see what's going on, we actually try and get them involved, supporting staff while we collect data, so they they start to develop that kind of real world experience, so that when they come to run it themselves, that they're far more familiar with the environment.

Senior Lecturer of Research Methods and Exercise, Scott Burnett is stood in a classroom talking to camera.

3:35:05

We tend to focus on allowing students to use anything and everything the university has to offer, nothing is kept on them, nothing is preserved for research or just academics. Anything we use on elite clubs is available for students to use on their own clients.

Technician on Sport Science, Chris Morphew is stood in a classroom talking to camera.

3:52:06

What's one of the unique things about sports science is that it opens up a whole kind of spectrum, from the sports performance end of the spectrum, all the way down to the clinical end of the spectrum and a lot of the skills they will develop can be kind of transitioned basically to anyone on that spectrum, so if you're dealing with patients with certain pathologies, or if you're dealing with people who just want to get fitter or the unique performance end, then you can look to go into roles as sports scientists, strength and conditioning coaches, performance analysts, clinical exercise scientists - it really does open up a lot of opportunities for you.

Senior Lecturer of Research Methods and Exercise, Scott Burnett is stood in a classroom talking to camera.

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