Virtual Visit Day - Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

over the course this video I'm trying to

give you a quick snapshot of the subject

of sports science in particular Banga

University's offerings of this the

courses that we actually offer in terms

of undergraduate and master's degrees

and then also the type of learning that

you could expect if you arrive here so

what is for science or why might you

want to study sports titles the classic

environment that we offer here centers

around high performance that would be a

sport science basically but you also

have great number of opportunities of

where our staff and students influence

the field of research and impact in

society in terms of the NHS for example

a lot of our research works directly

with exercise rehabilitation and how

benefits of exercise might be beneficial

for those individuals who are recovering

from or suffering from diseases we work

with extreme environments so very hot

very cold climates which could be with

elite athletes you think of Tokyo games

that are now going to happen 2021 it's

going to be an incredibly hot

environment there so how can we get

people to the highest level possible

you'll study aspects of that but that's

also true if you look at environments

with high altitude so climbers or the

military that might be going off and

sleep deprivation a restricted calorie

intake or exercises in very hot and very

cold climates where they have to produce

military base them performances the same

could be true for police environments

was very stressful or in the fire

brigade where you have to work in

extreme heat so lots of our research and

lots of the stuff you study will be

directly influenced in regards of that

we also have the other end of exercise

which we might call sport or

participation so we look at how we can

tackle obesity in society how we can get

people exercising more so there's a

great wealth of things that a sports

science subject could do for you outside

of the traditional performance base my

Banga University there are three things

that

strongly believe that you ought to look

at when you're choosing a university and

that is the quality of the teaching the

quality of the research and the impact

of now as previously stated the impact

of our research reaches far and wide

beyond that of sport so examples of the

military the NHS the Armed Forces

there's a great many things that we

offer and it of course into the into the

performance related aspect of sports or

elite sport and all of our research in

the last exercise framework or research

exercise frame which is a government-run

government-run exercise which occurs

every five to six years all of our staff

that were entered into that will

recognize this world leading or

internationally recognized scientists so

what does it actually mean to you it

means that the individuals that are

teaching you in the lectures are

producing the research which is changing

the field of sport science so that will

directly influence the quality of the

teaching that you get here and the

experience that you have not all

universities or sports science

departments are entered into that and

those that are don't will not finish as

we did in that top 10 so we were seventh

so you really want to look at the

quality when you're choosing you old

sport science sports science university

where am I actually going to study and

what is the quality of that research

what is the impact of that research the

other side of that is the teaching

aspect because our research directly

informs our teaching the quality of our

teaching is very high and we really do

value the quality of our students you

can see there's a number of different

metrics that we have and if you have a

look across those from research impact

teaching and the quality the degrees we

get we sit very highly in much the

competitors we obtain very clearly in

the top five or six sports fans depart

in the school of sport have a nice

answer Topanga there are three research

areas or teaching areas that you will

experience when you're here there's the

Institute for the psychology of

performance which looks at the

psychology aspect of sports science

there is the physical activity health

and well-being Research Center

which basically looks at performance

physiology health physiology aspects of

psychology within that as well to

determine the well-being of individuals

how physical activity may help enhance

performance and also how physical

activity can help with general

well-being at health and population and

then we have the extremes research group

which looks a high-performance

physiology in psychology in

environmental conditions which are not

what we would normally experience in

day-to-day them such as high altitude or

very hot and very cold climates but who

do we work with as a department there's

a wealth of individuals that we that we

work across but I think what's useful to

look at is if we name drop just a few of

them you can see the quality of the

institutions you work with is probably

reflective of the quality of the degree

in the department meal so we work with

the Welsh Institute of Sport the English

Institute of sports and at the highest

level of UK schools we work with the

English and wild cricket board we work

with the wiU and the RFU

we work with the NHS we'll work with men

cap we work with local organisations

that are also looking the outdoors so

outlook expedition there's a great many

different activities that we do across a

number of different high level

stakeholders it means that we can give

you a great number of possible work

placement outlets during your degree so

that you can get some valuable

employability experience with those

partners that we work with because we

already have doors open to enable

students to have interactions with those

high level organizations so what degree

programs that we offer here we offer

five different degree programs at the

moment we have traditional sports

science which is performance related

where you will focus on sporting

performance and an example of the sort

of module that you might be this slides

for science of a link to performance

we're looking at the athletes and really

trying to understand what is what

strives or what enables athletes and

individuals to become elite individuals

we also have as for Health and Exercise

Sciences degree which sort of has a

health focus on that really so we're

looking more along health and an

exercise science and an example module

there will be physical activity and

health so understanding health physical

activity can promote health and

well-being we have us for an exercise

psychology PBS accredited degree now if

you know that you want to call yourself

a sports psychologist or psychologist

upon graduation and that's definitely

the degree route for you because in

order to use that term psychology your

degree needs to be British Psychological

Society accredited and a sort of example

of a module in there would be support

psychology of sports performance

particularly looking at the mind games

that individuals might want to

participate in if they're going to be

elite performance we also have our sport

health and physical education degree

which is kind of a combination of our

sport science performance and health

degrees but with a PE slant to it as

well so we're looking at physical

literacy health and well-being and some

of the examples of why that degree is

different to others you'll do a teaching

placement and have experience with

actually working as a teacher and then

we have our adventure sports Sciences

degree which is basically sports science

but with an adventure twist into or an

outdoor activities twist and the three

sort of routes that you could go down

after that it's got outdoor coaching

adventure tourism or outdoor therapy so

the sorts of things that are really hot

topics at the moment that are using the

outdoors and sports in order to create

both not just tourism centers but also

unique environments from the learn and

get positive experience and something

that you'll do in there as a recent

research expedition we actually go away

plan and conduct research in that

adventure but what sort of lectures will

you experience when you're here in order

to help you understand why Bangor

University really just stand out on

unique learning experience for you I

strongly recommend you review some of

these because we have some videos of

these unique learning experience that

you

have on our website and one that really

Springs out and stands out to mine is

our heart anatomy video so typically

when you learn about the heart and the

cardiovascular system what you'll end up

doing is looking at pictures of art and

discussing hearts in the textbook itself

what we do here is you'll have a lecture

in the textbook so you understand that

side of things of what and how the heart

functions but then you actually get

hands-on experience where you're able to

in this example is actually dissect a

heart and understand that aspect of how

it works and get really hands-on with us

and get a really immersive learning

experience we also do that with the

human anatomy as well we're very

uniquely placed here in that we have

great links with the hospitals in the

medical school so we can get cadavers in

IE donated human bodies the means that

you can understand the different layers

of the human body that you may have

learnt in the physiology lectures and

actually get hands-on experience of how

does that really work when you're

looking at the inside of a human being

so really unique experiences then you

won't get in all sports department I

also recommend that you look over their

website for the career roadmap that we

produce so each one of our degrees

really is is structured for a three plus

one so you could do a degree and it

gives you a very clear route into an MSC

or masters which then is linked very

clearly to the employability sector so

for example dual for science degree can

lead into this for an exercise

psychology or the applied sport science

master's and then it gives you a very

clear route into that performance

performance sports or into that sport

psychology boot but there are many

different aspects of employment after

this one unique thing that we do at

Value University is really do promote

the quality of the courses so that

everything you're doing throughout that

is it gives you some transferrable and

some employability skills so that when

you leave here you have not only the

knowledge but you also have a

practical skill sets to thrive in in the

employability market and lastly is with

in this video it's going to give you a

quick snapshot of the sort of facilities

that we have here now every student that

comes here has to do a research project

which is why we're a research led which

means you get a wealth of experience

within that but what we must have in

order for that to happen is multiple

high performing laboratories so we

actually have 21 separate laboratories

in the sports science department we have

four or five particularly big ones but

if we don't have multiple laboratories

with world-leading

equipment in them then it's impossible

for the number of students who need to

do research projects to be able to get

access to that equipment so we really

have leading laboratory facilities to

enable you to learn the highest level of

sports science practical skills and

theoretical skills that you need and

then we also have really quite unique

environments for which to learn and

study in terms of the sport because

we're located right on the beach in the

mountains with a great activity centers

around us for all sorts of adventure and

risk-taking activities that you might be

interested in but we also have the

traditional sports facilities indeed

we've won consistently I think in the

last five years we have won the clubs

and societies award from them from the

one Union was for the best sports clubs

and societies thing and the facilities

that we have a wide-ranging four across

a number of those different traditional

and up to you more unique sports and I

strongly recommend that you look at the

sport within the website and look at

Caernarfon Brailsford which is our

Center which has world leading great gym

gym equipment in there and also a number

of different sports facilities and

pitches that will enable you to not only

study but continue to do what you love

most which presumably is sport I hope

that gives you a quick snapshot of what

we can offer here at banger please do

get in

touch with any questions that you might

have either through the unibody scheme

on websites or through emailing contact

admissions direct and I look forward to

seeing you

fingers crossed in September and welcome

you to the school of Sport health and

exercise science is at Bang the universe