Sports Performance MSc

University of Bedfordshire

Postgraduate

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Luton

About the course If you wish to work with sports performers as a coach, strength and conditioner, or applied sports scientist, this innovative course is for you. Designed to meet the needs of students interested in the optimisation of performance in sport, it will provide the theory and foundation knowledge and skills you need to pursue professional accreditation with a number of bodies including the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES); the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA); and appropriate higher coaching awards (Level 3 or above).

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Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Coaching

Course programme

  • Study on a unique course with a multidisciplinary approach to sports performance and gain access to world-leading staff expertise and research. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) three quarters of our work across sports science, PE and tourism and leisure has internationally recognised impact. More than % of our research outputs are rated as internationally recognised or better (compared with a sector average of %).
  • Explore a range of disciplines and their contribution to helping athletes increase performance, including: strength and conditioning; performance analysis; coaching in a performance setting; sport science support ; laboratory skills; talent identification
  • Develop your research skills and capabilities including research design and ethics, statistics and laboratory skills, opening up additional career opportunities
  • Gain from a course designed to prepare you to for employment in the rewarding and expanding fields of coaching, sport science support and strength and conditioning
  • Benefit from gaining the necessary skills to pursue roles including Strength and Conditioning Specialist; as a Coach or in Coach Development; Applied Sports Scientist; Laboratory Specialised Technician (eg in universities, sports clubs or hospitals) and/or continue to further research-based study on Masters by research, MPhil or PhD programmes.
  • Research Methods
  • Sports Performance Dissertation
  • Performance Analysis
  • Coaching in a Performance Setting
  • Sport Science Support
  • Strength and Conditioning
  • Metabolic Health*
  • Talent Identification & Development in Dance and Sport*
  • Exercise Testing and Diagnosis*
  • Exercise Prescription for Clinical Populations*
  • Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing*
  • Laboratory Skills*
  • Placement (short)*
  • Placement (long)*
*denotes options

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