Hi there, my name's Dr James Bray,
and I am the Programme Director for the Sport and Exercise
Nutrition degree here at the University of Hull.
So I guess the first question is why?
Why come to study Sport and Exercise Nutrition?
So we're one of only a handful of undergraduate courses in the country
that are professionally endorsed by our governing
body, the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register.
So that just gives you that confidence and that quality assurance
that what we're teaching is ticking the boxes of our governing body.
In addition to the course being endorsed,
I'm also professionally accredited with the governing body as well.
What we're really passionate about here, as teaching staff, is trying to make
what we do as real world and have practical application.
And so a couple of the modules I teach, we try our best to embed
sort of authentic practical assessments within those modules.
An example of this could be the Sport and Exercise Nutrition module I teach
to the second years where I challenge the students to come up with a
pre-competition match and fuelling strategy.
They have to design a presentation to talk about this
and that is complemented with a video that they film themselves
on their own devices at home,
which they could send out to a hypothetical athlete, giving them
some reasoning why they've chosen those different food types
and how it's going to best prepare them for matches.
We’re a really close knit, small group of staff and students
typically taking around 20 students in per year, which means
that we get to really know our students on a personal and professional level.
So we get really nice working relationship with our students
and we can help nurture them all the way through the three years that
they come and study with us.