To truly understand how sport and exercise affects the body, it’s vital to take an approach rooted in medical insight. On this ground-breaking degree, you’ll investigate how movement prevents disease, nutrition influences health and physical inactivity changes our body. There are few places in the world better placed to develop your learning than the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s. Not only do we have connections to London’s many centres of sporting excellence, our course benefits from the research and teaching at one of the world’s great medical schools.

Key benefits

• Explore a broad area that covers several related disciplines including nutrition, biochemistry and psychology - areas in which King’s are internationally renowned.
• Learn from lecturers who are world leaders in areas including skeletal, cardiac and respiratory muscle physiology, ageing, tissue regeneration, and more.
• Complete research projects under the supervision of leading researchers in numerous scientific and clinical fields – providing fantastic opportunities to learn fundamental research skills, or work with an elite organisation.
• King’s association with sport is long standing. Be the first to hear drug-related breakthroughs from our world-class bio-analytical and pharmaceutical laboratories.
• Benefit from King's partnerships with NHS Foundation Trusts: Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College and the South London and Maudsley Hospitals.
• We are ranked joint 4th in the UK for Sport Science (Times Good University Guide 2024)

“The range of modules allow me to expand my interests and work towards my passion. It is a new and relevant course in today’s society. ”

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