Sport and Exercise Nutrition with Foundation Year | BSc (Hons) at Leeds Beckett University

Course Details

Help athletes prepare for their chosen sport by providing them with the specialist nutritional programmes that will aid their performance.

Studying the science of food, you will develop your understanding of how nutritional composition and diet can influence sport and exercise performance. Working across the spectrum – from elite athletes to recreational performers – you will learn how to conduct interviews, assess the dietary intake of individuals and design personalised nutritional interventions.

Refining your understanding of the key disciplines of nutrition, physiology and psychology, your course will also enable you to put your learning into practice through a placement in a setting of your choosing. This could include working within a professional sports environment.

Designed to meet the competency requirements and professional standards set by the Sport & Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr), this course will prepare you to become a professional sport and exercise nutritionist.

Course Benefits

You will be taught by academic staff with a wealth of expertise in the areas of clinical nutrition and sport and exercise nutrition. The teaching team includes Louise Sutton, Chair of the British Dietetic Association Sport Nutrition Interest Group and Deputy Chair on the SENr board, Dr Lauren Duckworth, an Academic Associate of the SENr, and Dr Kevin Deighton, an editor for the British Journal of Nutrition and the Journal of Nutritional Sciences.

You will be among the first students to take advantage of the university’s new state-of-the-art Carnegie Teaching and Research (CTAR) building, due to open in November 2019. The building will include a wealth of outstanding facilities, including dedicated research laboratories, a hypoxic laboratory, a health and wellbeing studio, an indoor sprint track for performance training and analysis, a rooftop walking track and terrace, enhanced strength and conditioning spaces and changing and recovery facilities.

Our strong links with industry ensure we are able to provide a range of exciting work placement opportunities; you could find yourself working for professional sports teams such as Leeds Rhinos or Yorkshire County Cricket Club, local schools or health clubs. Many of our students have also taken advantage of our sport volunteering opportunities, which have previously included global events such as the Olympics, World Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games.