adding very brief cognitive tasks to standard physical warmup activities can improve subsequent sport and exercise performance more than standard warmup alone. The project will extend our understanding of the performance enhancing priming effect associated with combined warmups.

What you will learn: How to assess sport and/or exercise performance. How to use an app to train and assess cognition and psychobiological state (e.g., heart rate variability). How to program cognitive priming tasks designed to improve subsequent sport and/or exercise performance. How to assess the psychobiological state induced by warmup (priming) activities. How to understand their role in sport and/or exercise performance.

Academic Background: You must have an undergraduate degree in sport and exercise science or psychology with an upper second or first class degree classification or equivalent. Ideally, you will have a masters degree too (merit or distinction). Experience/interest in sport and exercise performance and/or coaching would be expected.

Funding: You must self-fund your studies. The university has no funding.

adding very brief cognitive tasks to standard physical warmup activities can improve subsequent sport and exercise performance more than standard warmup alone. The project will extend our understanding of the performance enhancing priming effect associated with combined warmups.

What you will learn: How to assess sport and/or exercise performance. How to use an app to train and assess cognition and psychobiological state (e.g., heart rate variability). How to program cognitive priming tasks designed to improve subsequent sport and/or exercise performance. How to assess the psychobiological state induced by warmup (priming) activities. How to understand their role in sport and/or exercise performance.

Academic Background: You must have an undergraduate degree in sport and exercise science or psychology with an upper second or first class degree classification or equivalent. Ideally, you will have a masters degree too (merit or distinction). Experience/interest in sport and exercise performance and/or coaching would be expected.

Funding: You must self-fund your studies. The university has no funding.