Student Internships in Sport and Exercise Sciences

We offer a range of opportunities to develop our students’ employability skills, including paid internships collaborating with staff on their research projects.

SportsLab

Kwaku Asiedu Kwaku Asiedu spent 10 weeks working in our SportsLab. Drawing on his new business and marketing experience, Kwaku conducted a full review of SportsLab's marketing and communications, creating a new template for how we communicate with new and existing customers.	PROFILE
Sophie Geddes Sophie Geddes worked with Sport and Exercise Science lecturers and PhD students to begin the initial stages in gaining an accreditation from UKAD.	PROFILE
Emma Harvey Emma Harvey worked with the SportsLab team to explore what coach education is available in the South East of England and nationally.	PROFILE

SPEAR

Natalie Mearns Natalie Mearns conducted research on the impact of physical activity guidelines on public health. Working under the supervision of Professor Mike Weed, Natalie looked at over one hundred full research articles and investigated the different ways public guidelines are applied.	PROFILE
Stephen Pillow Stephen Pillow worked with the team in SPEAR to develop a suite of tools to promote physical literacy in schools. Stephen also helped recruit schools to engage in the project.	PROFILE

Sport and Exercise Psychology

Matthew Robinson Matthew Robinson helped to contribute to our research in sport and exercise psychology. As part of his internship Matthew conducted a citation network analysis to review the emotions associated with physical activity. This involved identifying relevant databases of literature and establishing key search terms in order to create a visual representation of the prominent theories in the field.

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