Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning BSc 2026.
Congratulations on receiving an offer to study with us! The information contained in this welcome letter is designed to give you a brief insight to our BASRaT-Accredited Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning degree you have chosen to study, and the preparation that you can undertake to get ready for your studies.
We are really excited by the way our degree has developed since we started in 2019 and how our graduates are developing into multidisciplinary and multi-skilled professional sports rehabilitators. This course focuses on key study areas of expertise including modules related to: anatomy, physiology, sport massage and mobilisation, injury assessment and treatments, athlete screening, injury prevention, strength and conditioning, research methods and sport trauma management. An important feature of our degree is the way we utilise our strong relationships with industry to help you to study in a ‘real world’ context and not just in the classroom. We will work with you to help develop your technical, personal and employability during the course in which you are required to attain a minimum of 400-hours work-based learning during the course.
We like to communicate and showcase what our students are doing so you can find out more about the course and begin to network with our existing students by following our course Instagram page @uon_sportrehab.
Your Course Leader
Brendon Skinner
Senior Lecturer in Sport Rehabilitation and Injury
Brendon.skinner@northampton.ac.uk
Other staff
- Dr Dominic Langdon
- Dr Nathan Thompson
- Michelle Daly
- Robert Smith
Welcome and Induction sessions
In preparation for your course starting in September, we hold some online sessions beforehand so you can meet your Academic Team and other students studying the same course. The information on how to join these are below. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the course leader Brendon Skinner via email. These sessions are really important to support you in an effective start to this course, attendance for induction events is expected.
Online Induction Session 1
- Session Content: Preparing for this course and what to expect on it
- Date: Wednesday 3 September 2026
- Time: 10am
- Link: Join online via Online Induction Session 1
- Meeting ID: 399 629 336 785 005
- Passcode: am7Jn34S
Online Induction Session 2
- Session Content: What will my teaching and learning look like + Your Q’s answered
- Date: Monday 7 September 2026
- Time: 10:30am
- Link: Join online via: Online Induction Session 2
- Meeting ID: 334 339 199 445 245
- Passcode: 93N9BG9B
When you arrive at the University of Northampton, there’s plenty to get involved with during Welcome Week. However, there are specific sessions taking place as part of your course induction that’ll help you settle in and prepare for teaching to start the following week:
Welcome and Induction Week Session 1 – In-person session
- Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026
- Time: 10am – 12pm
- Location: Creative Hub Building, Floor 2, Room CH210.1
Welcome and Induction Week Session 2 – In-person session
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 10am – 12pm
- Location: Creative Hub Building, Floor 2, Room CH210.1
Equipment and preparation
Students are not required to buy any mandatory kit or textbooks to start this course. As a heavily practical based course, students will require sportwear for many of the modules. We will provide all students with one of our course branded t-shirts, and students can purchase further course branded kit from Kit Locker.
While purchasing this is not mandatory, we do encourage students to consider an additional pair of tracksuit bottoms / leggings for circumstances when completing work based learning activities and representing both our course and institution.
To help you prepare for this course we encourage students to spend some time familiarising yourself with our subject area. Some excellent resources to look at in readiness for this course include:
- Get Body Smart – this website provides some excellent content and activities to help you prepare for the anatomy and physiology that underpins our programme.
- Virtual sports injury clinic – this website will help build an understanding of injuries and their presentation.
- Physiotutors – this Youtube channel provides excellent examples of the injury assessment methods we will teach you.
