Course Modules

The module aims to provide you with a comprehensive and critical insight into the evolution, principles, theories and applications governing sports performance analysis. A theory to practice ethos is adopted throughout, promoting a research informed approach to applied practice.

You will learn how to develop and implement an effective performance testing battery to athletes from a range of sports.

You will develop the seminal personal skills e.g. communication, and professional skills e.g. technical skills, sport-specific knowledge, observation skills, required by an applied performance analysis practitioner.

Personalise your learning and deepen your knowledge and skillset within an area of your coaching pertinent to your future aspirations.

You will examine the demands of coaching across the lifespan and within both participation and performance environments. The module seeks to deepen your critical appreciation of planning in the mid and long term to support performance development over time. The

You will critically analyse coaching effectiveness and develop critical awareness of coaching philosophies and their impact on behaviours. The placement opportunities encourage you to synthesise and apply the theoretical concepts within the taught components of the programme to your coaching

You will learn and apply innovative and cutting-edge methods of analysis evident in psychology literature.

This module attempts to identify the key cognitive factors responsible for the development and demonstration of expertise, and to explore the scope for the coach and the learner to enhance learning and performance through a better understanding of such processes.

With a focus on qualitative methods and narrative analysis, students explore current issues in sport that are impacted by social processes (for example group environment, athlete/leader interactions) and psychosocial phenomena that may threaten the performance narrative (such as injury, career

You will learn how research and applied practice can be used to support the varied physical, physiological and nutritional challenges associated with sport and exercise performance in a range of settings and the importance of working as part of multi-disciplinary