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Study Sports Technology

Delivering the cutting edge in sports performance.

How does technology enhance sporting performance? With advanced analysis tools, hi-tech sportswear, innovative design in training equipment and programmes, and leading research into human physiology. How does sports technology enhance New Zealand’s economy?

By developing new technologies and products to export, and engaging with local and international business. How does sports technology extend knowledge? Innovative technologies enhance research, allowing us to better understand the capabilities of the human body. How can you be a part of all of this? By studying Sports Technology at the University of Otago.

Why study Sports Technology?

Our top sports organisations recognise the importance of technology in ensuring New Zealand’s competitiveness in sport.

A minor in Sports Technology can help you gain practical skills, and scientific and technical knowledge suited to the diverse employment opportunities that exist in this exciting area of development.

Career opportunities

As the field of Sports Technology is so broad there are a wide range of career opportunities to consider, for example:

  • Performance analyst for high performance sport
  • Sports equipment / clothing research and development
  • Anti-doping organisation representative Software programmer for sports media companies
  • Sports facility manager
  • App designer

Sports Technology at Otago

What is Sports Technology?

Sports Technology is an incredibly diverse, interdisciplinary field that can lead to research in fields such as the modelling of movement, sports performance analysis, athlete workload monitoring, brain-blood flow neurophysiology, and the broadcasting of sporting events (e.g. 3D animation, computational modelling).

Teaching and research in technologies associated with sport already occur in a number of disciplines including:

  • Computer Science
  • Medicine
  • Human Nutrition
  • Physical Education
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Physiotherapy
  • Psychology

Requirements

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Contact us

School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences
Tel +64 3 479 8991
Email physical-education@otago.ac.nz
Website otago.ac.nz/sopeses

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