Sports Coaching & Development

This module aims to ensure that you can independently demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the coaching process and the many elements that contribute to effective and safe coaching practice, taking into consideration the wide and varied context of sport in the UK.

The aim of this module is to use your coaching and sports science principles and practice to improve sports performance. You'll undertake a variety of theoretical and practical learning tasks aimed at developing your skills as coaches, with focus on multidisciplinary approaches.

We aim to provide you with a broad knowledge of how sport is delivered and developed in community, school and international sport for development settings. The module also examines the importance of developing pathways and sustainable activities within these environments.

This module focuses on the nature of quantitative and qualitative research methods and a variety of research data gathering tools. You will develop skills associated with gathering and managing data through relevant tools, reporting research findings and developing a critical awareness of research limitations. You will also assess key concepts linked to entrepreneurial capabilities, including effective communication of information

This sports development module gives you the opportunity to examine the logistics and impact of sports projects in schools and communities and the theory behind why sport is used as a tool to work with young people and communities.

This module aims to develop your coaching competencies. It encourages experimentation within the coaching process and develops an ongoing and collaborative reflective process for action. You will become an innovative coach who is better able to justify your coaching practice in accordance with the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ of your delivery.

This module will allow you to build a framework for sports coaches to develop techniques in sports performance. You will focus on technical and tactical analysis. You will also review pertinent scientific elements of training and performance.

You will study biological, psychological, and sociological factors that impact talent development in the sport. You will examine performance pathways developed by organisations, so players reach full potential. You will also explore the support mechanisms which develop performers.

This module allows you to follow safe and ethical assessment procedures, in the analysis of sporting performance. You'll be able to analyse sporting performance and the subsequent development of sporting talent through evaluative and constructive feedback.

You'll have the opportunity to investigate a range of political, social and economic factors that underpin international aid and development through sport in a global context. You will look at how both national and international development agencies impact and limit sport for development.

You will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of the key factors associated with working within a sports coaching context. The emphasis of the module is placed upon you gaining experiential knowledge and developing your knowledge and skills (competencies) in a ‘real-world’ environment (e.g., local schools, clubs etc.). 

You'll be looking into the key technologies employed by and used to support coaches within their coaching process. You'll practice using a range of appropriate technologies which could improve the coaching process.

The aim of the dissertation is to provide an opportunity for you to pursue an in-depth study on a topic of your own choice which is related to your substantive areas of study. You'll work independently, under limited supervision, in order to develop and demonstrate your academic skills and abilities. 

Do you want to start your own business venture? This module will encourage you to think conceptually and critically about the role of the individual in developing enterprise and new venture creation through individual self-reflection and analysis of various entrepreneurs.

This module aims to develop your understanding of the theories regarding sports coaching to the performance of a specific sport. You will examine the performance environment and gain skills in designing strategies to better develop participants to their full potential.

The aim of this module is to apply your knowledge of the factors that impact talent development to talent system design in a specific sporting context. It examines the talent systems developed within a sport of your choice and you will devise mechanisms and strategies for the relevant organisations to better develop participants to their full potential.

In this module, you will be allowed to develop your understanding of significant factors within the applied sports coaching context. You will emphasize your knowledge and skills within a 'real-world' environment. You will also understand contemporary coaching research and theory.

This module lets you encounter and address the challenges of a consultancy project involving research, critical thinking and problem solving. You'll focus on engagement with an organisation, group or individual and you'll use your skills to look at an identified client issue.

On this module, you'll critically apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical concepts within sports coaching to the performance environment of a specific sporting context. You'll analyse the performance environment within a sport of your choice and design innovative mechanisms and strategies for the relevant organisation.