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    Teaching Facilities

     

    The Experimental Medicine, Metabolic and Nutritional Physiology Research Group houses state-of-the-art teaching facilities on University Park Campus at the outstanding David Ross Sports Village and also has access to speciliast teaching laboratories within the Medical School at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC).

    • EXCELLENT TEACHING LABORATORIES 

      Unveiled in 2018, a new development housing bespoke teaching laboratories and study areas based within the heart of the multi-million development of the David Ross Sports Village.

    • SPECIALIST LABORATORIES 

      For physiology, biomechanics, psychology, human biology and anatomy.

    • STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT 

      Including the latest physiological, molecular and environmental technologies, and bespoke training and testing equipment.

     

    Sport & Exercise Science Laboratory

    Location: David Ross Sports Village (B16), University Park Campus

    Nottingham's Sport & Exercise Science Laboratory allows the very best learning experience for our students. Not only that, but you'll have access to the excellent facilities across our campuses, including our unrivalled sports facilities. 

    Our state-of-the-art Sport & Exercise Science Laboratory is used for teaching Exercise and Muscle Physiology, as well as Psychology, and is used by students within taught classes and by students conducting independent research projects.

    Equipment:
    • Lode cycle ergometers
    • H/P Cosmos Treadmill
    • Isokinetic dynamometer
    • Cortex on-line gas analysers
    • Polar heart rate monitors
    • Finometer
    • Capillary blood sampling analysers for analysis of lactate, glucose, lipid profile, creatine kinase, haemoglobin, haematocrit and blood gases
    • Anthropometry equipment (skinfold caliper, bioelectrical impedence)
    • Physical activity monitors (GeneActiv, Actigraph, PRO-Diary)
    • Laptops with specialist software for nutritional and MRI analysis
    • Ultrasound machines
    • Electrocardiography
    • Automated blood pressure monitors
    • Fingertip pulse oximeters
    • Altitude training hypoxic generators
    • AD Instruments with specialist kits
    • Takei Handgrip strength dynamometers
    • Eye Tracking systems
    • Skin Thermistors
    • Laptops with specialist software for nutritional analysis (nutritics), physical activity assessment (GeneActiv, Actigraph, PRO-Diary), statistical anlaysis (GraphPad Prism, SPSS), AD Instrument analysis

    In addition to the laboratory-based equipment, we also have a range of equipment that permits field-based evaluation of human performance. This includes:

    • Brower timing system
    • Optojump timing system
    • Porable force plates
     

    Sport and Exercise Science Laboratory

     
    Human Performance Laboratory

    Human Performance Laboratory

    Location: David Ross Sports Village (A17), University Park Campus

    Our bepsoke Human Performance Laboratory is used for teaching Sports Biomechanics and are used by students within taught classes and by students conducting research projects. Within the laboratory, students have the opportunity to use all our biomechanical equipment from simple 2D video capture to state of the art 3D motion capture. The advanced laboratory enable students to develop upon their theoretical understanding gained within lectures and put it into practice. The laboratories are also equipped with sophisticated sports testing equipment enabling students to identify the biomechanical differences in equipment design and how they interact with the performer.

    Equipment:
    • 3D motion capture system
    • 3D motion captures software
    • Motion labs systems electromyography
    • Delsys wireless electromyography
    • High speed cameras
    • In-ground force platforms
    • Isokinetic dynamometer
    • Rowing ergometer
    • SRM cycling ergometer
    • Computers with specialist software
     

     

     

     

    Experimental Medicine, Metabolic and Nutritional Physiology Research Group

    David Greenfield Human Physiology Unit
    School of Life Sciences
    Medical School
    University of Nottingham
    Nottingham, NG7 2UH