Elite Performance MProf

Programme at a Glance

Skills Review & Development (20 credits): This module is designed to enable you to formulate a detailed and contemporary personal development plan (PDP) based on your strengths and weaknesses, and consideration of your current professional environment.

Appreciation of Working Context (40 credits): This module enables you to complete discipline-based review of pertinent factors and theoretical constructs impacting on performance in your domain. This offers you a chance to explore the disciplinary underpinnings of performance development in your domain. This module compliments TL4116 by evaluating your own skills and that of your environment.

Research Methods & Design (20 credits): This module is designed to equip you with the knowledge, techniques and skills to critically appraise research and to undertake your own small project. In doing so it provides a theoretical framework upon which to base both practical and empirical approaches to research. The module is an essential pre-requisite to the dissertation.

Scientific Evolution of Working Practice (40 credits):
The module extends your critical reflection on the use of pertinent knowledge sources and interdisciplinary implications for one self-identified, pertinent aspect of the domain. Normally anticipating the topic for final dissertation module, you will develop a critical consideration of the “pros, cons and challenges” of a specific innovation.

Dissertation (60 credits):
The dissertation forms the second part of your programme of study. In satisfactorily completing the previous modules, you will design, conduct, analyse and interpret the results of a scientific investigation relevant to a particular aspect of your professional practice.

On completion of the course, students may progress to further study including PhD or DProf in Elite Performance.