MPhil Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

at Bangor University

Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, with research interests in:

Sport psychology/human performance:

• Stress and performance
• Application of social cognitive theories to sport and performance
• Mental imagery
• Self-talk
• Group dynamics
• Leadership
• Personality and emotion regulation
• Risk-taking
• The application of all of the above in business, military and other contexts

Exercise Psychology/health behaviours:

• Participation motivation
• Self-regulation
• Implicit processes

Exercise physiology:

• Clinical exercise physiology
• Performance physiology
• Muscle wasting in chronic disease
• Rehabilitation in chronic disease
• Fatigue
• Psychobiology of physical exertion
• Skeletal muscle function and biochemistry
• Cardio-vascular physiology
• Exercise and immune function; diet and exercise
• Hydration/dehydration and exercise
• Physiology of extreme environments

Motor Control and Learning:

• Visual control of movement
• Motor programming
• Attention
• Perception and action
• Feedback processing