Sport & Exercise

This MSc has been designed to allow a sports therapist or a physiotherapist to continue professional and educational development by consolidating, enhancing and extending their expertise and abilities with a combination of academic and practical learning in sports therapy and rehabilitation.

A key feature of the course is its integration of the theoretical and practical components needed to work professionally in sport therapy and rehabilitation.

This course provides you with postgraduate skills in assessment and treatment of sports-specific injuries and rehabilitation in various sports populations. You also learn how to design and implement custom-made exercise-based rehabilitative programmes developed from applied knowledge of the pathomechanics of injury. You attain a high level of autonomy and clinical decision-making skills for application to clinical practice.

How you learn

You develop the necessary comprehensive and critical understanding of techniques/methodologies appropriate to research and advanced scholarship by learning through practical workshops, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, experiential, work-based learning and student-led research projects. These skills enable you to make informed contributions to the workshops, practicals, discussions and problem-based learning activities. Research skills are also further developed during the seminars and workshops. You target your study/research towards specialist fields of enquiry within sports therapy and rehabilitation sciences. This provides a platform from which you can proceed to complete coursework and your dissertation.

You have the opportunity to develop personal development planning throughout all modules on the programme. The delivery of modules is via blended learning, which uses a combination of face-to-face learning and online delivery. The modules have a site in the University’s virtual learning environment (Blackboard), which adheres as a minimum to the University’s Threshold Quality Standards.

The Management of Sports Injuries and Sports Specific Rehabilitation module includes 50 hours of work-related learning.

As with all study at MSc level you are expected to study the subject in greater depth during personal study between contact sessions.

How you are assessed

Assessment methods include assignments, critical review, case study reports, e-portfolio, presentations, portfolios and examinations.

These methods allow you to demonstrate a critical and systematic understanding and application of the relevant curriculum. Professional and key transferable skills are also developed through these assessments. You are required to undertake appropriate research, using the skills developed in the core modules and this provides the impetus for the development of your dissertation proposal. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to demonstrate an appropriate standard of research and enquiry into a specialist area, selected by you, displaying an original and/or compelling study or review of that area.

Career opportunities

You will be well prepared for employment in related areas including the health and fitness industry, sport development, research and sport science support.

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally have a good honours degree in sports therapy, physiotherapy or any related rehabilitation discipline with a ‘licence to practice’.

An Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure is required for this course.

For additional information please see the undergraduate and postgraduate entry requirements in our admissions section

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