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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. You'll have access to the excellent facilities across our campuses, including our unrivalled sports facilities. 

    Our state-of-the-art 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.

     

    SES Lab

     
    Our equipment includes:
    • Research-grade ergometers
    • Isokinetic dynamometer
    • Cortex on-line gas analysers
    • Polar heart rate systems
    • Finometer
    • 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)
    • Ultrasound
    • Electrocardiography
    • Altitude training hypoxic generators
    • Eye Tracking systems
     
     

     

    Human Performance Laboratory

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

    Nottingham's bespoke Human Performance Laboratory allows the very best learning experience for our students in the area of Sports Biomechanics. 

    Students have the opportunity to use high-tech biomechanical equipment from simple 2D video capture to state of the art 3D motion capture. Our advanced laboratory enables students to develop upon their theoretical understanding gained within lectures and put it into practice.

    Biomech lab

     
    Our equipment includes:
    • 3D motion capture systems
    • Electromyography
    • High speed cameras
    • Multiple in-ground force platforms
    • Isokinetic dynamometer
    • Research-grade ergometers
     
     

    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