Sports Coaching and Performance - MSc

Research Project
This project aims to enable students to demonstrate the skills necessary to produce a scholarly, in-depth, empirical research study, resource, or report.

Research Process
Recognise and critically interpret the strengths and limitations of the different quantitative and qualitative research designs used in sport and exercise research. 

Effective Coaching
You will develop an advanced understanding of critical self-reflective skills through the use of video analysis, which includes identifying key coaching styles, behaviours and feedback techniques required in advanced coaching situations.

Professional Work Based Development
This module provides an opportunity for students to observe and participate in work-based professional environments, including identifying a work problem for you to overcome, which will enhance your professional and vocational learning and inform your own everyday practice.

Mentoring in Sport
You’ll recognise and appreciate the need for mentoring within sport and management contexts, develop the skills necessary for mentoring and apply them in a diverse non-judgemental environment.

Movement Analysis
This module aims to develop your awareness of the analysis of sports performance, with particular emphasis on technique analysis and notation analysis.

Strength and Conditioning
This module aims to develop your ability to implement effective strength and conditioning programmes into a range of performance environments.

The Coaching Environment: Evidence Based Practice
The module will analyse a range of different approaches to developing the coaching environment and its relationship with coaching practice.

The High Performance Environment
The module will analyse how multiple stakeholders across the organisation assist and complement each other in producing a high performance environment.

Psychology for the Sports Coach / Practitioner
This module aims to provide students with an in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of how psychology may impact on the ability of key stakeholders in sport (e.g., athletes, coaches, sport and exercise science practitioners) to perform, thrive, and experience mental well-being in sport.