Our Sports Rehabilitation and Sports Coaching and Physical Education courses provide students with the experience and partnership links to help them kickstart exciting careers. From working in performance therapy with professional athletes and applying sporting knowledge to train armed forces squadrons, to using sport as a tool to foster social change, keep reading to learn what came next for some of our inspiring sport graduates.

Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2022

Tagged Clearing, Sport

Sports Rehabilitation is applicable in a wide range of environments. In this short injury screening video, Sport Rehabilitation lecturer Dr Katie Walker-Small demonstrates some easy exercises that you can follow and do at home.

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Tagged Sport

Our beautiful homeland has received a very special mention by a certain popstar this week. None other than Taylor Swift has talked about “The Lakes” in her new album “Folklore”!

Posted on Friday, August 14, 2020

Tagged Ambleside, Art and Design, Business, Conservation, Forestry, Geography, Health and Wellbeing, Media Arts, National School of Forestry, Outdoor Studies, Paramedic, Physiotherapy, Policing, Science, Sport, Student Life, Wildlife Media

Our final-year sport, coaching and physical education students and their lecturers worked together to create a series of videos featuring games, activities and tips to inspire themselves and the community to stay healthy.

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2020

Tagged Community Work, Health and Wellbeing, Sport

We sat down for a quick interview with Lecturer Katie Katie-Walker Small about her role here at The University of Cumbria. She discusses her journey in the sporting world and the highlights of her academic year.

Posted on Friday, January 31, 2020

Tagged Sport

Our Senior Lecturer, Stephen Rowell, talks about his experience working as a Sports Physiotherapist in Rugby League and Union after a career in the NHS and how his passion for sports drives him in his career.

Posted on Monday, December 9, 2019

Tagged Physiotherapy, Sport

Everyone suffers an injury or reoccurring physical issue at some point in life, however this can be the start of the confusion as you decide on whether you need a Physiotherapist or Sports Rehabilitator.

Posted on Friday, August 23, 2019

Tagged Health and Wellbeing, Physiotherapy, Sport

The clock’s ticking down to May 10th when Sport Rehabilitation student Joe Morrell pits himself against a challenge few are both mentally and physically capable of contemplating.

Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2019

Tagged Sport