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How to score a penalty

Our sport experts believe they have worked out the best way to score penalties at the 2014 World Cup. The essential ingredient to scoring a World Cup penalty – play the fool.

We are very pleased to announce that we have finalised a partnership with the Institut Nationale du Sport, de l’Expertise et de la performance (INSEP). Similar to the English Institute of Sport, INSEP supports French athletes from 22 different sport disciplines with training and studying on their site and their students are elite coaches and athletes.

Graduate shines at BMS symposium

Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, Dr Jeanne Dekerle, and former BSc student Louise King, who graduated in 2014, travelled in April to the Australia Institute of Sport in Canberra to attend the XIIth symposium of Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming.

Racism in football

Principal lecturer, Dr Daniel Burdsey’s paper on two significant incidents of racism from the 2011–2012 English Premier League football season has recently been published. Read more…

Success for final year Sport and Exercise Science Student!

Sport and Exercise Science BSc(Hons) student Hannah Peters (pictured far right) has won a coveted place on the highly competitive NHS Scientist Training Programme. The salaried graduate-entry programme will see Hannah working in Cardiac Science at the Hampshire Hospital Trust and will lead to a senior healthcare scientist role.

Football 4 Peace May Challenge Camp

Boys and girls from Eastbourne and Hastings came together during the school half term holidays in May to take part in the Football 4 Peace Challenge Camp at The School of Sport and Service Management in Eastbourne. As part of the University of Brighton’s widening participation scheme, they participated in a range of physical activities designed to…

Lexi climbs the heights!

Undergraduate physical education, sports coaching and sport science students in Eastbourne went rock climbing and surfing in Cornwall but for one, the experiences were extra special: Lexi Hibberd is blind. Read the full story.

Outdoor and Adventurous Activities in Bude

University of Brighton physical education, sports coaching and sport science students spent a week in May at Outdoor Adventure in Bude as part of their undergraduate courses. The trip focused on performance in a range of outdoor and adventurous activities (OAA) with an emphasis on using a variety of complex outdoor activity skills and techniques such as canoeing, kayaking,…

UEFA commissioned anti-racism report

Football clubs and fans are denying the existence of racism and are hindering attempts to kick the problem into touch, according to a new report to UEFA from the School of Sport and Service Management’s Dr Mark Doidge. Read the full story on the University of Brighton website.

Biology Ideology and Pastiche Hegemony

Dr Christopher R Matthews who lectures in the sociology of sport at the School of Sport and Service Management has recently published a new paper titled ‘Biology Ideology and Pastiche Hegemony’. The paper discusses the changing landscape of gender within a boxing gym. Read the paper here.

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