Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Gain the skills you need to analyse and optimise sport and exercise performance in either individual or team sports and in arduous occupations such as defence or firefighting on this Applied Sport and Exercise Performance Master's.
On this MSc course, you'll learn what it takes to win and perform at an elite level in both sporting and professional environments. You’ll develop applied monitoring and testing techniques, practical skills, research expertise and grasp various scientific concepts for improving performance, while also learning to integrate contemporary issues like inclusion and ethical practice into your skillset.
You’ll learn to assess and use new innovation and technology to enhance human performance, and understand how environmental factors affect work and sports performance – discovering ways to mitigate against them in a changing climate. You’ll explore current concepts relating to human performance and discover current research in sport and exercise performance.
A minimum of a second-class honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
Applicants who hold a non-related degree will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
For those who do not hold a degree or relevant professional qualification, extensive experience together with evidence of scholarly ability will be required.
When you graduate, you'll be qualified for a career in areas such as research, sports development, science support and the health and fitness sectors.
This course will also give you the theoretical basis for further academic research – you could go on to do a ProfDoc in Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Graduates of this course could go onto roles such as:
Fitness and Health Manager
Sports Physiologist
Personal Trainer
Sports Coach
Wellbeing Personal Trainer
Scientific Researcher
Applied Sports Physiology - 30 credits
Current Concepts in Sport and Exercise Performance - 30 credits
Humans in Extreme Environments - 30 credits
MSc Research Development and Practice - 60 credits
Technology and Performance in Sport and Exercise - 30 credits
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