SE206-5-AU-CO:
Applied Movement Science
2025/26
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 02 October 2025
Friday 12 December 2025
15
09 August 2024
Requisites for this module
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SE303
Clients requiring the services of Sports Scientist, Sports Therapist, and Coaches all have one thing in common. They need HELP in MOVEMENT - either for injury prevention, or performance enhancement, or both.
This module will equip you with a knowledge base on movement principles to know why injury and performance can be influenced by movement flaws. Using these knowledge and specific movement principles, you will learn to develop intervention strategies such as movement retraining and neuromuscular exercises, to reduce injury risk, aid rehabilitation, and optimise performance. In a practical, you will collect your own data and perform scientific experiments to understand and characterize the effect of footwear on running injuries.
The aim of this module is:
- To provide you with an understanding of basic movement principles to enable you to better design training programs, to either reduce injury risk and/or optimise performance.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Understand the biomechanical principles behind acute and chronic sporting injuries, and apply these principles towards injury prevention strategies.
- Understand the neuromechanical alterations in response to injuries, and how such alterations can facilitate or disrupt its recovery.
- Understand the biomechanical principles of selecting neuromuscular exercises, and applying these principles to optimally select exercises for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement.
- Understand the biomechanical principles of athletic manoeuvres, and apply these principles towards developing performance enhancing strategies.
- Understand the biomechanical principles of how different sporting apparels and/or assistive devices can influence athletic performance and injury risk.
No additional information available.
This module will be delivered via:
- 10x 1 hr lectures
- 10 x 1 hr support sessions
- 1.5hr face to face practical session
- 1 x 2 hr online support session
- 10 x1 hr self-directed learning (articles, videos, quizzes)
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Online MCQ (Moodle) |
|
100% |
| Exam |
Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 90 minutes during January
|
| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 90 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Additional coursework information
Coursework is 100% MCQ.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Bernard Liew, email: bl19622@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Bernard Liew
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
Yes
No
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Dr Jen Burbage
University of Portsmouth
Associate Head (Students)
Prof Joanne Hudson
Swansea University
Professor
Available via Moodle
Of 51 hours, 34 (66.7%) hours available to students:
17 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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