School of Sport Newsletter

Spring 2012

Welcome

Studying your Master’s with us could give you an

edge in an increasingly competitive employment

market, graduating before your competitors. Further,

we recognise that industry and employers seek

individuals with knowledge and experience. All our

postgraduate programmes embed opportunities for

you to gain the experience that employers’ desire

and, as Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence,

we are closely aligned with many sports

organisations. We offer six MSc programmes in Sport

Management, Psychology of Sport, Health and

Exercise Sciences, Sports Coaching, Performance

Coaching, and Sport Nutrition. Graduates, from all

programmes, will acquire the skills to move into a

broad range of career opportunities, including a

number of sport and health professions, posts

within a number of fields in the science industry,

to careers within the civil service and

government. Choose to study your MSc at one of

the world’s most beautiful campuses, popular

with international students, and with a lively

postgraduate environment, where you are

guaranteed professional practice and

development opportunities. Take the first step

towards a successful future and visit our website

for more information about our programmes.

Come and study an MSc with the School of Sport. Our programmes are founded on two key principles: To offer (1) full-time students the opportunity to graduate in nine months and

(2) guaranteed professional practice and development opportunities.

Sport Management

Sport Management is an exciting degree that will help you develop your career in the sport industry. It has been designed to meet the industry’s need for well-qualified managers who can combine management and financial skills with specialist knowledge of sport -The programme has strong links with the sport management sector and is delivered by tutors with industry experience, with a track record of applying management theory to practice. Accreditation is planned through the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity.

Gaining this degree will prepare you for sport management jobs with a local authority, a commercial organisation or with a voluntary sport organisation such as a governing body of sport.

Course Director: Dr Fiona Sanders

Sports Coaching

The Sports Coaching programme is for experienced coaches who wish to extend their capacity by engaging in learning experiences which promote analysis and critical reflection of their coaching practice.

The programme has been developed to articulate with the emerging UKCC Level 4 certification process. Your work will be grounded in coaching practice and research, considering case studies and learning from peers and leading coaching practitioners.

Graduates are anticipated to fulfil roles in the ‘top tier’ of employment opportunities for coaches in their sport.

Course Director: Dr Justine Allen

Performance Coaching

Performance Coaching is an innovative distance learning degree. It is for experienced performance coaches who wish to extend their expertise adjacent to their sport-specific qualifications.

The programme has been developed to articulate with the emerging UKCC Level 4 certification process. It will develop skills of critical analysis and reflective practice, enhance problem-solving capacity and promote innovative solutions to performance coaching problems.

Course Director: Alan Lynn

Psychology of Sport

The programme has a broad focus and is ideally suited

to applicants who are interested in working as a sport

psychologist in applied sport settings, and/or wish to

pursue doctoral work in sport psychology.

Psychology of Sport is an exciting degree that will help

you develop your career in sport and exercise

psychology. Accreditation is planned through the

British Psychological Society.

This programme is geared towards the field of sport

and exercise psychology, but we anticipate graduates

acquiring the skills to move into a broad range of

career opportunities, including a number of sport and

health professions, posts within a number of fields in

the science industry, to careers within the civil service

and government.

Course Director: Dr Pete Coffee

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Health and Exercise Sciences

This programme offers a knowledge and skills base

which enables cross-discipline exchange to occur

between those in the health sector and those in the

sport and exercise sectors.

Students will develop knowledge and understanding of key mechanisms linking diet, physical activity and health and research muscle physiology and function, exercise metabolism, nutrition, genetics and molecular biology.

Career prospects range from jobs in health promotion, sport development, or health and fitness industry through to science writing, Doctoral degree entry or Biosciences industry work.

Course Director: Dr Naomi Brooks

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Sports News @ Stirling

Stirling hosts conference to inspire young leaders ahead of Glasgow 2014

Stirling student and Glasgow 2014 hopeful swimmer Cameron Brodie joined

more than 150 pupils and students from across Central Scotland today to

take part in the innovative Lead 2014 youth leadership and volunteering

campaign: details here.

Scholarship swimmer receives Olympic and Commonwealth Boost

University of Stirling scholarship swimmer Jak Scott has received a major

boost as he bids to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics and the Glasgow

2014 Commonwealth Games: details here.

Sport Nutrition

This MSc programme has been established specifically for students who already hold an International Olym-pic Committee (IOC) postgraduate diploma in Sports Nutrition -The programme provides high quality re-search training through planning, conducting and writing up a research project enabling those working in the field of Sports Nutrition to undertake, under-stand and inform others about research in their cho-sen area of study.

Course Director: Dr Stuart Galloway