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Staffordshire University: Sports Coaching
Institution | Staffordshire University View institution profile |
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Department | Life Sciences and Education |
Web | www.staffs.ac.uk |
enquiries@staffs.ac.uk | |
Telephone | 01782 294000 |
Study type | Taught |
MSc
Summary
**Whether you’re coaching Olympic athletes, grassroots teams or talented young players, we’ll help you take your career to the next level. Our MSc in Sport Coaching brings together our wide range of teaching expertise, innovative and internationally important research and professional connections.**
The flexible part-time course is suitable for active and aspiring coaches, as well as PE teachers and further education tutors, who are affiliated with any sport around the world. You put the theory into practice in your own day-to-day job.
And as it’s delivered entirely online, you can fit studying round your work commitments and at a time that suits you. We use podcasts, blogs, class discussion boards, presentations, drop-ins and other interactive sessions so you can share your experiences and ideas.
While on the course, you have opportunities to collaborate and engage with key coaching networks, such as UK Coaching, and academics from across the world. There will also be guest lectures and a brokering service to link you with sport organisations for research projects. On the podcasts, you’ll hear from elite-level sports professionals, such as people from the Premier League.
The interdisciplinary approach means you’ll share some of the modules with students on our Masters degrees in Sport and Exercise Psychology and Applied Sport and Exercise Science. This gives you access to a diverse set of specialist staff, including those dedicated to coaching strategy and practice.
Topics will include how to improve performance under pressure and the psychology of leadership and group dynamics. You’ll also analyse data sets on athletic performance and coach decision-making. We’ll dive into different cultural aspects of coaching too, where you can use your own reflections to frame the effectiveness of your coaching philosophies and practices.
A significant part of the course will be devoted to research methods. We get students to produce their own thesis in the style of an academic journal. Many of them go on to see their work published in actual journals.
You can choose your research question and tailor it to your own interests and work. Alternatively, you can align the topic with the research expertise of staff or take advantage of the brokering service we facilitate with coaches and national governing bodies of sport to research important topics that can help them in their pursuit to optimise performance.
Our academics are producing some world-renowned research, including on the psychology of leadership in sport. Researchers also cover issues as diverse as concussion and how it affects sport coaching, along with other contemporary topics such as improving the athlete to coach transition and how to better support women in coaching and sport.
On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: MSc Sport Coaching
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | You’ll normally need an undergraduate Honours degree (grade 2:2 or higher) from a UK university in a related subject such as sports coaching, sports development, physical education, sports science or sports studies, and possess (or be working towards) at least a UK Level 2 coaching qualification or equivalent, alongside evidence of a sustained commitment to coaching practice. If you have an appropriate degree (or equivalent) in another subject, you’ll also be considered if you have significant relevant employment experience in sports coaching or a demonstrable interest in (or commitment to) areas related to sports coaching as evidenced by possession of (or working towards) a UK Level 3 coaching qualification or equivalent. If your first language is not English, you’ll need a minimum score of IELTS 7.0 (with a minimum of 6.5 in all bands) or an equivalent qualification. |
Location | Staffordshire University (Stoke-on-Trent Campus) College Road Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE |
Summary
**Our MSc in Sports Coaching has been developed for active coaches whose work, family commitments or location mean attending university would be challenging. Delivered online, the course is completed over a minimum of two years by part-time study.**
Recent Olympic and Commonwealth games have put a spotlight on the importance of sports coaching at all levels. UK Sport funding has helped to encourage an active nation – and as part of that initiative, the UK government has pushed additional funding for sport into schools.
With the focus on effective coaching at participatory, developmental and elite levels greater than ever, coupled with an increasing acknowledgment of the role that sport can play in regard to positive mental health, our MSc will equip you with an advanced, multidisciplinary understanding of current issues relating to the theory and practice of sports coaching.
The only course of its kind in the UK to be delivered exclusively online, it’s designed for both ‘participation’ and ‘performance development’ coaches who are seeking academic recognition as part of their professional development – whether that is for personal benefit or in relation to endorsed National Governing Body coaching qualifications.
The course is part-time, starting in early September each year and finishing two years later in late September.
On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: MSc Sports Coaching
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | You’ll normally need an undergraduate Honours degree (grade 2:2 or higher) from a UK university in a related subject such as sports coaching, sports development, physical education, sports science or sports studies, and possess (or be working towards) at least a UK Level 2 coaching qualification or equivalent, alongside evidence of a sustained commitment to coaching practice. If you have an appropriate degree (or equivalent) in another subject, you’ll also be considered if you have significant relevant employment experience in sports coaching or a demonstrable interest in (or commitment to) areas related to sports coaching as evidenced by possession of (or working towards) a UK Level 3 coaching qualification or equivalent. If your first language is not English, you’ll need a minimum score of IELTS 7.0 (with a minimum of 6.5 in all bands) or an equivalent qualification. |
Location | Staffordshire University (Stoke-on-Trent Campus) College Road Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE |
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