Our sport facilities
Our research, consultancy and teaching is conducted in our world-class facilities, including some of the best laboratories in the UK. We also have a campus at the English Institute of Sport Sheffield which contains some of the country's finest sporting facilities.
Facilities at the University include
- a biomechanics laboratory containing bowlers and cannons, an impact rig, motion capture equipment and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation facilities
- two physiology laboratories
- a physical activity laboratory
- non-contact laser scanning lab
- an electronics workshop
- an environmental chamber
- a manufacturing and prototyping workshop
- computer rooms and video analysis technology
- high specification computer cluster for sports simulation purposes
- gyms and sports halls
- a physiotherapy suite
- various strength and conditioning suites
Our computer software includes
- finite element analysis facilities
- MATLAB and .NET programming
- geographic information systems