Sport and Exercise Psychology

Study on the UK’s only interdisciplinary sports and exercise psychology distance learning degree and kick-start your future career.

Through our well-established distance learning expertise you will gain access to a highly engaging and flexible way to develop your knowledge and professional skills whilst studying at home or in the workplace.

Our Sports and Exercise Psychology course is ideally suited to those wishing to enter the field of sport and exercise psychology. Guided by internationally renowned lecturers, you will learn how athletes think, feel, behave, and why. You’ll gain vital knowledge and the skills to work as a professional within this sector. Plus, you’ll complete an in-depth study on how beliefs about human psychology are influenced by the methods used to develop them, and the broader social context in which they are developed.

The course is designed to be flexible, with the majority being delivered online; you can choose to study full-time or part-time.

As a distance learning course,  BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Psychology degree is unique in the UK, and through Staffordshire University’s well-established distance learning expertise you will gain access to a highly engaging and flexible way to develop your knowledge, expertise and professional skills whilst at home or in the workplace.

For students wishing to pursue a career as an applied sport and exercise psychologist or continue their academic studies there already exists an established and successful DL MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University. 

Learn more about what the team are up to on our Sport and Exercise Psychology blog.

Through our well-established distance learning expertise you will gain access to a highly engaging and flexible way to develop your knowledge and professional skills whilst studying at home or in the workplace.

Our Sports and Exercise Psychology course is ideally suited to those wishing to enter the field of sport and exercise psychology. Guided by internationally renowned lecturers, you will learn how athletes think, feel, behave, and why. You’ll gain vital knowledge and the skills to work as a professional within this sector. Plus, you’ll complete an in-depth study on how beliefs about human psychology are influenced by the methods used to develop them, and the broader social context in which they are developed.

The course is designed to be flexible, with the majority being delivered online; you can choose to study full-time or part-time.

As a distance learning course,  BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Psychology degree is unique in the UK, and through Staffordshire University’s well-established distance learning expertise you will gain access to a highly engaging and flexible way to develop your knowledge, expertise and professional skills whilst at home or in the workplace.

For students wishing to pursue a career as an applied sport and exercise psychologist or continue their academic studies there already exists an established and successful DL MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University. 

Learn more about what the team are up to on our Sport and Exercise Psychology blog.

Work placements

All teaching is delivered in an online distance-learning format. We have vast experience of delivering courses in this way, and we recognise the importance of flexible learning in the 21st century. Drawing on multi-media technologies, the elements are broken down into various engaging digital formats to help you learn; providing interaction between your tutors and peers.

You will explore a wide-ranging curriculum, covering subjects such as applied sport psychology techniques, group dynamics and leadership (social psychology), research methods, cognitive psychology, psychobiology, physical activity and mental health, developmental psychology, stress, and resilience. You will accrue and field and lab- based experience within both sport psychology and the sport sciences. 

You will end your degree bridging the gap between education and your future career with a supervised research project, which focuses on the application of psychology in a sport and exercise environment.

Prospective students will also have the opportunity to enhance their digital proficiency by undertaking an externally and industry approved accreditation across a suite of Microsoft 365 programmes provided by Microsoft Imagine Academy.

All teaching is delivered in an online distance-learning format. We have vast experience of delivering courses in this way, and we recognise the importance of flexible learning in the 21st century. Drawing on multi-media technologies, the elements are broken down into various engaging digital formats to help you learn; providing interaction between your tutors and peers.

You will explore a wide-ranging curriculum, covering subjects such as applied sport psychology techniques, group dynamics and leadership (social psychology), research methods, cognitive psychology, psychobiology, physical activity and mental health, developmental psychology, stress, and resilience. You will accrue and field and lab- based experience within both sport psychology and the sport sciences. 

You will end your degree bridging the gap between education and your future career with a supervised research project, which focuses on the application of psychology in a sport and exercise environment.

Prospective students will also have the opportunity to enhance their digital proficiency by undertaking an externally and industry approved accreditation across a suite of Microsoft 365 programmes provided by Microsoft Imagine Academy.

Professional body accreditation

Accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) against the requirements for qualification as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.

Professional body accreditation

Accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) against the requirements for qualification as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.