Course summary

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

• Benefit from our extensive expertise – few institutions cover such a diverse range of human physiology research areas

• Learn from lecturers who are world leaders in areas including skeletal, cardiac and respiratory muscle physiology, ageing, tissue regeneration, and more

• Be the first to hear drug-related breakthroughs from our world-class bio-analytical and pharmaceutical laboratories

• Complete research projects under the supervision of leading researchers or work with an elite organisation