Funded MPhil opportunity
20 July 2012Funded MPhil opportunity in the Department: ‘Developing motivation and engagement in users of innovative fitness technology’.
Research and Teaching Success for Postgraduate Students
6 June 2011The Department is celebrating the achievements of its postgraduate students. Congratulations to Dr Simon Payne, who passed his PhD viva on the 2nd June 2011. Simon's thesis examined self-presentation and impression management motives. Furthermore, the quality of the Department's postgraduate teaching has once again been recognised. Sarah Forrest has been awarded the University's Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
Department receives funding to establish new International and UK-based links
6 June 2011Dr Jo Thatcher and Dr Emily Oliver have been awarded funding from the DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation to initiate collaborative research with colleagues based at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The department is continuing to raise its profile within Wales and will be hosting two research experience placements for local sixth-form students, as well as one returning undergraduate student, with the support of Nuffield Foundation and a Walter Idris bursary.
Department sucessfully hosted Physical Activity and Diabetes Research Meeting
6 December 2010The fourth meeting of the Physical Activity and Diabetes Research Development Group was hosted at the Department on the 27th January 2011. The meeting brought together researchers, clinicians and practitioners from across Wales with an interest in the role of physical activity and lifestyle in the prevention and management of diabetes.
Graduation, July 2010
10 July 2010Congratulations to the class of 2010 on successfully completing their degrees.
Aber Sport & Exercise Science Newsletter, 2011, issue 2.
31 March 2011Issue 2 of our 2011 newsletter is now available for download.
Aberystwyth University has been included within London 2012's Pre-Games Training Camp Guide
28 March 2009We all know that the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games will be held in London but what you may not know is that places much further a field will host athlete training camps. Our Department will be included as a mountain biking training camp in the pre-games training camp brochure.
Student Wins 2008 Undergraduate H.T.A Whiting Prize
10 July 2008Louisa Davies, who graduated in 2008, has won the British
Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Sport & Exercise
Psychology H.T.A. Whiting Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.
Dr Alan Axford
11 June 2008Dr Alan Axford, Medical Director for the newly formed Hywel Dda NHS Trust, is awarded Fellow of Aberystwyth University.
BASES comes to Aber
10 May 2008The first Welsh branch of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) is to based in Aberystwyth.
Graduation 2008
10 June 2008The class of 2008 graduated last week. Congratulations to all of them for successfully completing their degrees.