PhD in Performance Science

This studentship aims to develop valid and high-fidelity immersive simulations to support the transfer of performance to competitive sporting environments. Immersive simulation is widely used in healthcare teaching and training, and in 2023 Swansea University opened a new Simulation and Immersive Learning Centre (SUSIM) for this purpose. The Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences have been collaborating with the SUSIM team to explore the potential for applications of immersive wall technology to support skill acquisition, training and testing in performance sport. This proposed collaborative PhD between Swansea University and the University of Canberra aims to complement and enhance an existing project at Swansea University that has scoped similar applications across other domains and is exploring the potential for this technology to elicit realistic emotional responses in simulated sporting environments. The proposed PhD will explore new potential sporting applications, develop new simulations, and evaluate the validity (particularly face and construct) and fidelity of these simulations in order to provide an evidence base to support their implementation into high performance sport.