Master of Sports Nutrition (By Research)

Course Details

Use your knowledge to drive peak performance. In this program you will develop the necessary research skills to work within a broad sports population that strives for peak fitness and elite athletic performance. In this program you will develop high level critical thinking, independent research capabilities, and organisational skills to help you work in either clinical or research settings in the future. You will choose a research topic in which application of the principles of nutrition will have a positive outcome on health, wellbeing and physical performance. You will explore research topics already undertaken including: supplementation practices of elite Australian swimmers, validity of field-based indices of sweat composition, and factors influencing food choices of triathletes.

Qualification: Master Degree (By Research)

Course structure: A Higher Degree by Research (HDR) is a supervised research program that requires undertaking original research, resulting in a thesis, or a thesis and exegesis. During the Master by Research program, Master by Research candidates are required to achieve several milestones that relate to their research training.