UVic-UCC will have a doctoral programme in Sports and Human Movement Sciences next year

Starting next year, UVic-UCC will offer a new doctoral programme in Sports and Human Movement Sciences, which will have ten places annually for students to produce theses in a field that has recently been the focus of significant research. Last December, the University System of Catalonia Quality Agency (AQU) finally ratified the new programme, the tenth at the Doctoral College. The programme will have three research lines: Sports Performance, Physical Activity and Health, and Sport, Society, and Education. This doctoral programme is being organised by various research groups at the University: the Sport Performance Analysis Research Group (SPARG), the Sport and Physical Activity  Research Group (GREAF), the Physical Education Research Group (GREF) and the Podiatry, Biomechanics, Physiotherapy and Therapeutic Exercise Research and Innovation Group.

The doctoral programme in Human Movement and Sport Sciences will provide researchers with skills to design, undertake and manage research projects in the fields of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, and specifically in the specialist fields of health and human movement, sports performance, economic and social management of sport, and physical education. In addition to the boost for research inherent in the completion of doctoral theses, this training also aims to contribute to consolidating the programming of existing bachelor's and master's degrees at the University, in the field of social sciences (Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, and Primary Education Teaching with a specialisation in Physical Education) and Health Sciences (Physiotherapy and Podiatry).

With its tenth doctoral programme, UVic-UCC completes a range that covers many of the important areas in research and teaching at the institution. This milestone also coincides with the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Doctoral College and the implementation of the current regulations governing these courses.