The University of Exeter’s School of Sport and Health Sciences has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Facilities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students are excellent with purpose-built teaching and research laboratories for sport and exercise physiology, biomechanics, health and performance psychology, and qualitative research.

The general research interests of the Qualitative Research Unit revolve around issues of embodiment, identity, and culture in sport and physical activity. Research projects include men, sport, spinal cord injury and the narrative reconstruction of selves; the social construction of masculinity in sport and physical education; ageing bodies and sporting selves; body-self relationships in sporting auto/biographies; identity work; and the transformation of body-self relationships through the practice of Eastern movement forms.